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| 9228411330 | ABC-1 Agreement | Agreement with Britain that adopted the strategy to defeat Germany before concentrating on Japan | 0 | |
| 9228411331 | Executive Order No. 9066 | Executive order to relocate the Japanese-Americans to camps during WWII | 1 | |
| 9228411332 | War Production Board (WPB) | WWII Government agency that decided which companies would make war materials and how to distribute raw materials | 2 | |
| 9228411333 | Office of Price Administration (OPA) | WWII Office that installs price controls on essential items to prevent inflation | 3 | |
| 9228411334 | National War Labor Board (NWLB) | A board that negotiated labor disputes and gave workers what they wanted to prevent strikes that would disrupt the war | 4 | |
| 9228411335 | Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act | This authorized the federal government to seize industries and made strikes against government operated industry a criminal offense, so that a strike would not inhibit the war effort | 5 | |
| 9228411336 | Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAACs) | World War II-era division of the U.S. Army that consisted entirely of women | 6 | |
| 9228411337 | Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) | World War II-era division of the U.S. Navy that consisted entirely of women | 7 | |
| 9228411338 | U.S. Coast Guard Women's Reserve (SPARs) | World War II-era division of the U.S. Coast Guard that consisted entirely of women | 8 | |
| 9228411339 | Bracero Program | United States labor agents recruited thousands of farm and railroad workers from Mexico. The program stimulated emigration for Mexico | 9 | |
| 9228411340 | Fari Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) | Government companies can't discriminate (result of Randolph)-FDR | 10 | |
| 9228411341 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | CORE was a civil rights organization. They were famous for freedom rides which drew attention to Southern barbarity, leading to the passing of civil rights legislation | 11 | |
| 9228411342 | Navajo Code Talkers | Native Americans from the Navajo tribe used their own language to make a code for the U.S. military that the Japanese could not decipher | 12 | |
| 9228411343 | Battle of Midway | 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific | 13 | |
| 9228411344 | D-Day | (FDR) , June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. General Dwight D. Eisenhower called the operation a crusade in which "we will accept nothing less than full victory." More than 5,000 Ships and 13,000 aircraft supported the D-Day invasion, and by day's end on June 6, the Allies gained a foot- hold in Normandy | 14 | |
| 9228411345 | V-E (Victory in Europe) Day | 1945 celebrated the official defeat of the Nazis and end of WWII in Europe | 15 | |
| 9228411346 | Potsdam Conference | July 26, 1945 - Allied leaders Truman, Stalin and Churchill met in Germany to set up zones of control and to inform the Japanese that if they refused to surrender at once, they would face total destruction | 16 | |
| 9228411347 | Manhattan Project | A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb | 17 | |
| 9228411348 | V-J (Victory in Japan) Day | Celebrated on August 15, 1945 after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan; the celebrations continued through the official end of WWII on September 2, 1945 when Japan officially surrendered | 18 | |
| 9228411349 | Douglas MacArthur | (1880-1964), U.S. general. Commander of U.S. (later Allied) forces in the southwestern Pacific during World War II, he accepted Japan's surrender in 1945 and administered the ensuing Allied occupation. He was in charge of UN forces in Korea 1950-51, before being forced to relinquish command by President Truman | 19 | |
| 9228411350 | Chester Nimitz | United States admiral of the Pacific fleet during World War II who used aircraft carriers to destroy the Japanese navy (1885-1966) | 20 | |
| 9228411351 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | Leader of the Allied forces in Europe then was elected to be Pres. of the USA | 21 | |
| 9228411352 | Harry S. Truman | Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb | 22 | |
| 9228411353 | Albert Einstein | (1879-1955) A German Jew, Stated that matter and energy are interchangeable, and that even a particle of matter contains enormous amounts of potential energy. Headed the Manhattan Project | 23 |
