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| 156049177 | ABC-1 agreement | Agreement between the US and Britain to "get Germany first" before worrying about Japan. | |
| 156049178 | Executive Order No. 9066 | Law that forced many Japanese-Americans into internment camps, potentially unconstitutional although deemed so by the Supreme Court. | |
| 156049179 | Japanese Internment Camps | Camps where many Japanese-Americans were kept for fear of their being spies from Japan, although many were US-born. | |
| 156049180 | Korematsu v. US | Case where the Supreme Court held up the constitutionality of Japanese relocation. | |
| 156049181 | War Production Board (WPB) | Government agency created to assist in wartime production. | |
| 156049182 | national speed limit | Law created to save rubber. | |
| 156049183 | Office of Price Administration (OPA) | Government agency created to control ascending prices and provide rationing. | |
| 156049184 | National War Labor Board (NWLB) | Government agency that imposed ceilings on wage increases; contested by many labor unions. | |
| 156049185 | Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act | Authorized the federal government so seize and operate tied-up industries, made strikes against any government-operated industry a criminal offense. Allowed the government to temporarily take control of the coal mines and railroads. | |
| 156049186 | WAACs | Women serving in the army. | |
| 156049187 | WAVES | Women serving in the navy. | |
| 156049188 | SPARs | Women serving in the coast guard. | |
| 156049189 | Bracero Program | Agreement with Mexico that allowed thousands of Mexican agricultural workers across the border to harvest the fruit and grain crops of the West. | |
| 156049190 | Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) | Government agency that forbid discrimination in defense industries. | |
| 156049191 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | Militant organization committed to nonviolent "direct action" on the behalf of race relations. | |
| 156111751 | mechanical cotton picker | Invention that caused the migration of many southern blacks to the northern factories. | |
| 156111752 | code talkers | Comanche and Navajo Indians used in the war to transmit messages in order that they would not be intercepted. | |
| 156111753 | Burma Road | Route over which the United States had been trucking a trickle of munition to China's armies, cut by Japan, and forced American aviators to fly in war supplies over the Himalayan mountains. | |
| 156111754 | Bataan Death March | Eighty-mile march of surrendered American soldiers by the Japanese military. | |
| 156111755 | Coral Sea | Crucial naval battle in 1942 that inflicted heavy losses on the Japanese; all fighting was done by carrier-based aircraft. | |
| 156111756 | Battle of Midway | Battle where Japan hoped to occupy a strategic island northwest of Honolulu, but Japan failed after losing four vitally important carriers. | |
| 156111757 | Guadalcanal | American advance on an island, Japanese troops eventually evacuated with large losses. | |
| 156111758 | island hopping | Strategy used by American troops in the Pacific in order to bypass some of the most heavily fortified ports and capturing nearby islands. | |
| 156111759 | Marianas | Important islands that allowed the United States to fire directly on Japan's home islands. | |
| 156111760 | Great Marianas "Turkey Shoot" | Successful defensive naval battle that destroyed many Japanese aircraft. | |
| 156111761 | Battle of the Philippine Sea | US advance that sank many Japanese carriers. The Japanese navy never recovered from these massive losses of planes, pilots, and ships. | |
| 156111762 | Suicide Cliff | A mass suicide leap of surviving Japanese soldiers and civilians after the Marianas fell to the US attackers. | |
| 156111763 | wolf packs | Hitler's submarine technique that sank many US ships. | |
| 156111764 | Enigma | Germans' codes. | |
| 156111765 | Battle of the Atlantic | Victory of the Allies over German U-Boats. | |
| 156111766 | Unconditional surrender | Agreement between Winston Churchill and FDR on the end of the war; one of the most controversial moves of the war. | |
| 156111767 | D-Day | Invasion of France through Normandy, Germans were misled by expecting the blow to fall further north. | |
| 156111768 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's "last throw of his reserves," pushed Allies back a little but ultimately failed. | |
| 156111769 | V-E (Victory in Europe) Day | Marked the unconditional surrender of the German government after Hitler's suicide. | |
| 156111770 | Iwo Jima | Island captured by US in order to make it a haven for damaged American bombers returning from Japan. | |
| 156111771 | Okinawa | US victory with many casualties, allowed closer bases from which to bomb Japan. | |
| 156111772 | kamikazes | Japanese suicide pilots. | |
| 156111773 | Potsdam Conference | Conference in Berlin between Truman, Stalin, and British leaders that delivered an ultimatum to Japan. | |
| 156111774 | Manhattan Project | Project to develop the atomic bomb, helped by Albert Einstein. | |
| 156111775 | Hiroshima | First site of the atomic bomb attack on Japan on August 6, 1945. | |
| 156111776 | Nagasaki | Second site of the atomic bomb attack on Japan on August 9, 1945. | |
| 156111777 | V-J (Victory in Japan) Day | Unconditional surrender of the Japanese government after the atomic explosions. |
