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Marissa Russo
Chapter 17 Vocabulary
| George Marshall | Pushed for women's rights. |
| Women's Auxiliary Army Corp | U.S army until credited for enabling women to serve in a non combat position in WW II. |
| A Phillip Randolph | President and founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter and national African American leader. |
| Manhatten Project | The u.s program to develop an atomic bomb for use in world war II |
| Office of Prince Administration | An agency established by congress to control inflation during WW II |
| War Production Board | Agency established to coordinate the production of military supplies to the U.S. |
| Rationing | A restriction of peoples rights to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods often implemeted during the war time to ensure supplies for the military |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | An American general |
| D- Day | Day at which Allies launched an invasion on the European mainland during WW II |
| Omar Bradley | Generals and made powerful invasions |
| George Patton | Generals and made powerful invasions |
| Battle of the Buldge | A month of long battles of WW II which Allies successed in turning back the last major German offensive of the war |
| V-E Day | Day at which marked the "Victory of Europe Day" on which general Eisenhower acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi German marked the End of WW II in Europe |
| Harry Truman | vice President |
| Douglas MacArthur | General that commanded all Allies forces on the island |
| Chester Nimitz | The commander of the American Naval Forces in the Pacific |
| Battle of Midway | A WW II battle that took place on early June 1942 |
| Kamikaze | Involving or engaging in a deliberate crashing of a bomb filled airplanes into a military target |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | An American sciencetist that created the first atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | Important Japanese military center |
| Nasqaki | A bomb leaving an estimated 200,000 people died. |
| Numemberg Trials | The trial of Nazi leaders being charged with crime |
| GI Bill of Rights | A 1944 law that provided financial and educational benefits to WW II veterans |
| James Farmer | Founder of congress of Racial Equality |
| Congress of Racial Equality | An international group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against the segregation of nothern cities |
| Intermet | A worldwide network that links computers allows immediate communication of texts and pictures |
| Japanese American Citizen League | An organization that pushed the u.s. government to compensate Japanese American for property all they had lost when they were interned during WW II |
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