Us History Ccsd Chapter 25 Vocabulary

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Nisei

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A U.S. citizen born of immigrant Japanese parents.

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Office of Price Administration (OPA)

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An agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II.

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War Production Board (WPB)

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An agency established during World War II to coordinate the production of military supplies by U.S. industries.

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rationing

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A restriction of people's right to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often implemented during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military.

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D-Day

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A name given to June 6, 1944 - the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II.

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Battle of the Bulge

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A month-long battle of World War II, 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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A name given to May 8, 1945, on which General Eisenhower's acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II in Europe.

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kamikaze

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Involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target.

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Manhattan Project

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The U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.

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Yalta Conference

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A 1945 meeting at which the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union agreed on a set of measures to be implemented after the defeat of Germany.

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United Nations (UN)

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An international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development.

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Nuremberg trials

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The court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes.

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GI Bill of Rights

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A name given to the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits for World War II veterans.

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Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

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An interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities.

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Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)

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An organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during World War II.

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A. Philip Randolph

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President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and the nation's leading African-American labor leader, he organized a march on Washington on July 1, 1941.

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Chester Nimitz

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The commander of U.S. naval forces in the Pacific during World War II.

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James Farmer

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A civil rights leader who founded an interracial movement called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to confront urban segregation in the North.

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Headed a group of brilliant American, British, and European-refugee scientists who worked in a secret laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, to build the first atomic bomb.

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George Marshall

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He pushed for the formation of a Women's Auxiliary Army Corps (WAAC) during World War II.

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Hiroshima

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A Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on August6, 1945.

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Nagasaki

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A Japanese city devastated during World War II when the United States dropped the second atomic bomb on August 8, 1945.