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War Production Board (WPB)
World War II agency, that was in charge of converting factories to war production.
Office of War Mobilization (OWM)
Federal agency that coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort during World War II.
Selective Training and Service Act
(1940) Law providing for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
Douglas MacArthur
General that commanded the filipino troops.
Bataan Death March
(1942) Brutal forced march of U.S. and Filipino prisoners during World War OO up the Bataan Peninsula; more than 10,000 died
Battle of the Coral Sea
(1942) World War II battle in which the Allies stopped the Japanese advance on Australia.
Battle of Midway
(1942) World War II battle in which the Allied forces crippled Japan's navy
Erwin Rommel
Commander of the German Afrika Korps
Bernard Montgomery
Commander of the British
Office of war Information
U.S. agency that controlled the flow of war news at home during World War II.
Rosie the Riveter
The symbol of patriotic female defense workers
A. Philip Randolph
African American Labor Leader
Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC)
Group created in 1941 to prevent discrimination in war industries and government jobs.
Carlos E. Castaneda
University of Texas history professor who served as assistant to the chair of the FEPC and worked to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas
Braceros
Mexican farm and railroad workers who came to the United States during World War II as a result of a U.S.-Mexican agreement.
Zoot-suit riots
(1943) Series of attacks by U.S. sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles.
Internment
Forced relocation and imprisonment of people.
Norman Mineta
An imprisoned Japanese American
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General who commanded the invasion farce of U.S. and British Soldiers
George S. Patton
General who had emerged as a leader during the North Africa campaign, guided the U.S. forces.
Battle of the Atlantic
World War II naval campaign fought between German U-boats and Allied naval and air forces
Sonar
Equipment that uses sound waves to detect underwater objects.
George C. Marshall
U.S. Army chief of staff and key Allied strategist.
D-Day
(1944) June 6; World War II Allied invasion of France.
Omar Bradley
General who led the U.S. troops that landed at Normandy
Holocaust
Nazi Germany's slaughter of European Jews.
Genocide
Deliberate annihilation of an entire people.
Elie Wiesel
Romanian-born writer who survived the Holocaust.
Battle of the Bulge
(1944) World War II battle in which the Allies defeated the final German offensive.
Yalta Conference
(1945) Meeting of U.S president Franklin D Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to plan for the postwar world.
Island-Hopping
U.S. World War II strategy of conquering only the Pacific islands that were important to the Allied advance toward Japan.
Battle of Leyte Gulf
(1944) Last, largest, and most decisive naval engagement in the Pacific during World War II; afterward, the Japanese fleet no longer seriously threatened the Allies
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes during World War II.
Battle of Okinawa
(1945) Bloody battle in the Pacific during World War II; resulted in an Allied victory.
Harry S. Truman
President that faced a grave decision, had to decide whether the U.S. should use the atomic bomb.
Manhattan Project
Secret U.S. project begun in 1942 to develop an atomic bomb.
Albert Einstein
Physicist who moved form Germany to the U.S.
Enola Gay
The U.S. B-29 bomber
Battle of Iwo Jima
(1945) Six-week struggle for control of a key Pacific island that resulted in an Allied victory.