Vocabulary

·      WAAC: Women’s auxiliary army corps

·      WPB: War production board

·      Omar Bradley: American army general who launched massive air and land attack against enemy at St. Louis

·      George Paton: American general

·      George Marshall: Army chief for staff general

·      Philip Randolph: President and Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car posters, highly respected leader

·      Manhattan Project: U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in WWII

·      OPA: Office of Price Administration

·      Battle of the Bulge: allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war

·      Rationing: a restriction of people’s rights to by unlimited amounts of particular good and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military

·      Dwight D. Eisenhower: American general, he commanded the invasion on Axis-controlled North America

·      D-Day- June 6, 1944: the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland in WWII

·      Harry S. Truman: Vice President for President Franklin Roosevelt, who then became the 33^rdpresident when FDR died in office

·      Tuskegee Airmen: African American Pilots of all black 99^th pursuit squadron, fought in Italy

·      Douglas MacArthur: Ally general who commanded the Philippines islands in Dec. 1941

·      Chester Nimitz: the commander of the American naval forces in the Pacific

·      Battle of Midway: Japanese were caught off guard. Was the turning point in the Pacific War

·      Kamikaze: involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target 

·      Internment: confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions

·      JACL: The Japanese American Citizens League, an organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate the Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WWII

·      Iwo Jima: most heavily guarded island, Americans won it over to use to serve as a base from which heavily loaded bombers could reach Japan

·      J. Robert Oppenheimer: led research on the development of the atomic bomb, he was an American scientist

·      Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the two cities on which the U.S. dropped the atomic bombs during WWII

·      Nuremberg Trials: the court proceeding held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes

·      James Farmer: civil rights leader who founded the “CORE”

·      CORE: The Congress of Racial Equality, an interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against racism in N. cities

·      GI Bill of Rights: a name given to the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for WWII veterans