AP US HISTORY CH. 35& 36 I.D.

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.