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Japanese-Americans
A U.S. minority that was forced into concentration camps during WWII
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War Production Board
A federal agency that coordinated US. industry and successfully mobilized the economy to produce vast quantities of military supplies
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WAACS & WAVES
Women's units of the army and navy, respectively, during WWII
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braceros
Mexican-American workers brought into the U.S. to provide an agricultural labor supply
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Rosie the Riveter
Symbolic personification of female laborers who took factory jobs in order to sustain U.S. production during WWII
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Fair Employment Practices Commission
Federal agency established to guarantee opportunities for African-American employment in WWII industries
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Philippines
U.S. owned Pacific archipelago seized by Japan in the early months of WWII
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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
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"unconditional surrender"
Controversial U.S.-British demand on Germany and Japan that substituted for a " second front"
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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
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Tehran
Iranian capital where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to plan D-Day in coordination with Russian strategy against Hitler and the East
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D-Day
The beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944
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Battle of the Bulge
The December 1944 German offensive (stopped by Patton) that marked Hitler's last chance to stop the Allied advance
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Iwo Jima & Okinawa
The last two heavily defended Japanese islands conquered by the U.S. in 1945
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atomic bombs
Devastating new weapon used by the U.S. against the U.S against Japan in August 1945
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