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U.S. CH 14
World War II
Term | Definition |
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1. Cost-plus | |
2. Disenfranchised | |
3. War Production board | |
4. Office of War Mobilization | |
5. “Double V” campaign | |
6. Tuskegee Airmen | the first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S. armed forces, flying with distinction during World War II. |
7. Women’s Army corps | |
8. Convoy system | |
9. Admiral Chester Nimitz | served as an Admiral in the Battle of Midway in 1942; commanded the American fleet in the Pacific Ocean; With intercepted information, Nimitz headed the Japanese off and defeated them. |
10. General Douglas MacArthur | commander in chief of US forces in the Pacific Theater of operations; Left the Philippines vowing "I shall return"; Truman fired during Korean War for insubordination; |
11. Bataan Death March | |
12. Sunbelt | |
13. Zoot suit vs. victory suit | |
14. Nuremberg Trials | |
15. United Nations | |
16. Great Migration | |
17. Bracero Program | |
18. Office of Price Administration | |
19. Korematsu v. United States 1944 | landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II. |
20. Casablanca Conference | |
21. D-Day | |
22. Guadalcanal | |
23. Tehran conference | |
24. Battle of the Bulge | |
25. V-E Day and V-J Day | |
26. Harry S. Truman | 33rd U.S. president; succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt upon his death in April 1945; led the country through the last few months of World War II; best known for making the controversial decision to use two atomic bombs against Japan in August 1945. |
27. Manhattan Project |