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George Marshall
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the Army Chief of Staff General who pushed for the formation of Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps.
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Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC)
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U.S. army unit created during WWII to enable women to serve in noncombat positions.
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A. Philip Randolph
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president and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation’s most respected African American labor leader, organized a march on Washington.
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Manhattan Project
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the code name for the atomic bomb program.
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Office of Price Administration
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was created by Congress to fight the threat of inflation.
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War Production Board (WPB)
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assumed the responsibility for converting industry from peacetime to wartime production and distributing raw materials to key industrials.
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Rationing
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establishing fixed allotments of goods deemed essential for the military.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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an American General who commanded the Operation Torch.
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D-Day
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June 6, 1944, the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during WWII.
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Omar Bradley
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a General who unleashed massive air and land bombardment against the enemy at St. Lo, providing a gap in the German line of defense.
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George Patton
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a general and his Third Army tried to advance a German line.
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Battle of the Bulge
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a month-long battle of WWII, in which the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war.
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V-E Day
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Victory in Europe Day. The war in Europe was finally over.
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Harry S. Truman
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the Vice President who became the nation’s 33rd president.
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Douglas MacArthur
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a General who was in command of Allied forces on the islands.
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Chester Nimitz
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the commander of American naval forces in the Pacific, moved to defend the island.
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Battle of Midway
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was a turning point in the Pacific War.
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Kamikaze
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suicide-plane, attack in which Japanese pilots crashed their bomb-laden planes into Allied ships.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer
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an American scientist who developed the atomic bomb and was not only the most ambitious scientific enterprise in history.
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Hiroshima
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an important Japanese military center.
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Nagaski
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a second bomb, code-named Fat Man, was dropped here, leveling half the city.
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Nuremberg Trials
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the court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes.
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