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| 159168881 | Japanese-Americans | A U.S. minority that was forced into concentration camps during World War II. | |
| 159168882 | War Production Board | A federal agency that coordinated U.S. industry and successfully mobilized the economy to produce was quantities of military supplies. | |
| 159168883 | WAACS/ WAVES | Women's units of the army and navy during World War II. | |
| 159168884 | Braceros | Mexican American workers brought into the United States to provide an agricultural labor supply. | |
| 159168885 | Rosie the Riveter | Symbolic personification of female laborers who took factory jobs in order to sustain U.S. production during World War II. | |
| 159168886 | Fair Employment Practices Commission | The federal agency established to guarantee opportunities for African American employment in World War II. | |
| 159168887 | Philippines | U.S.-owned Pacific archipelago seized by Japan in the early months of World War II. | |
| 159168888 | Battle of Midway | Crucial naval battle of June 1942, in which U.S. Admiral Chester Nimitz blocked the Japanese attempt to conquer a strategic island near Hawaii. | |
| 159168889 | Unconditional Surrender | Controversial U.S.-British demand on Germany and Japan that substituted for a "second front." | |
| 159168890 | Casablanca | Site of 1943 Roosevelt-Churchill conference in North Africa, at which the Big Two planned the invasion of Italy and further steps in the Pacific war. | |
| 159168891 | Tehran | Iranian capital where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan D-Day in coordination with Russian strategy against Hitler in the East. | |
| 159168892 | D-Day | The beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944. | |
| 159168893 | Battle of the Bulge | The December 1944 German offensive that marked Hitler's last chance to stop the Allied advance. | |
| 159168894 | Iwo Jima, Okinawa | The last two heavily defended Japanese islands conquered by the United States in 1945. | |
| 159168895 | Atomic Bomb | The devastating new weapon used by the United States against Japan in August 1945. | |
| 159386366 | G.I. Bill | Popular name for the Servicemen's Readjustment Act, which provided assistance to former soldiers. | |
| 159386367 | Sunbelt | Shorthand name for the southern and western regions of the U.S. that experienced the highest rates of growth after World War II. | |
| 159386368 | Levittown | New York suburb where postwar builders pioneered the techniques of mass home construction. | |
| 159386369 | Baby Boom | Term for the dramatic rise in U.S. births that began immediately after World War II. | |
| 159386370 | Yalta | Big Three wartime conference that later became the focus of chargers that Roosevelt had "sold out" Eastern Europe to the Soviet communist. | |
| 159386371 | Cold War | The extended post-World War II confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that stopped just short of a shooting war. | |
| 159423781 | Bretten Woods | Meeting of Western Allies during World War II that established the economic structures to promote recovery and enhance FDR's vision of an "open world." | |
| 159423782 | United Nations | New international organization that experienced some early successes in diplomatic and cultural areas but failed in areas like atomic arms control. | |
| 159423783 | Iron Curtain | Term for that barrier that Stalin erected to block off Soviet-dominated nations of Eastern Europe from the West. | |
| 159423784 | Marshall Plan | American-sponsored effort that provided funds for the economic relief and recovery of Western Europe. | |
| 159423785 | NATO | The new anti-Soviet organization of Western nations that ended the long-time American tradition of not joining permanent military alliances. | |
| 159423786 | Chinese Nationalists | Jiang Jieshi's pro-American forces, which lost the Chinese civil war to Mao Zendong's communists in 1949. | |
| 159465331 | NSC-68 | Key U.S. government memorandum that militarized American foreign policy and indicated national faith in the economy's capacity to sustain large military expenditures. | |
| 159465332 | Committee on un-American Activities | U.S. House of Representatives committee that took the lead in investigating alleged procommunist agents such Alger Hiss. | |
| 159465333 | 38th Parallel | The dividing line between North and South Korea, across which the fighting between communist and United Nations forces ebbed and flowed during the Korean War. |
