The Americans Ch 25 Vocab

pushed for the creation of the women's auxillary army corp

U.S.army unit created during World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions.

President and Founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; organized a march on Washington to protest inequality of blacks in the workforce

the U.S. program to develop an atomic bomb for use in World War II.

an agency established by Congress to control inflation during World War II.

an agency established duringWorld War II to coordinate the production of military supplies by U.S. industries.

a restriction of people’s right to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for themilitary

An American General; Operation Torch, an invasion of axis-controlled North Africa

a name given to June 6, 1944—the day on which the Allies launched an invasion of the European mainland during World War II.

led an air and land bombardment against the enemy at St. Lo; allowed Patton to get through German lines

General that led his army through German lines winning a battle against the Germans

a month-long battle of World War II, inwhich the Allies succeeded in turning back the last major German offensive of the war

a name given to May 8, 1945, “Victory in Europe Day”on which General Eisenhower’s acceptance of the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany marked the end of World War II inEurope.

Vice President to Roosevelt; assumed the presidency (33rd) after Roosevelt's stroke in April of 1945

commander of American Phillipino forces at Baton against Japanese; was ordered to leave by president, took his family and staff, and told his soldiers he would return, leaving them to be slaughtered

commander of Pacific Forces; avenged Pearl Harbor on the Japanese

a World War II battle that took place in earlyJune 1942. The Allies decimated the Japanese fleet at Midway, an island lying northwest of Hawaii. The Allies then took the offensive in the Pacific and began to move closer to Japan.

involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target

directed research of the Atomic Bomb; 

August 6, 1945; the first of two cities to be bombed using the Atomic Bomb; was an important Japanese military center

August 9, 1944; A-Bomb codename Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki; Japanese surrender

the court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes

a name given to the Servicemen’sReadjustment Act, a 1944 law that provided financial andeducational benefits for World War II veterans

led a group against segregation in the North

an interracial group founded in 1942 by James Farmer to work against segregation in Northern cities

confinement or a restriction in movement, especially under wartime conditions

an organizationthat pushed the U.S. government to compensate JapaneseAmericans for property they had lost when they were internedduring World War II