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| was a motivational tool used to propose two changes - one was to allow African Americans to fight in the war, and the other was to allow African Americans to be equal in society. |
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| was a leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties. |
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| was a class of amphibious warfare vehicle, a small amphibious landing craft, introduced by the United States Navy, Marine Corps and Army during World War II. |
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| was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II |
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| was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. |
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| The bracero program (named for the Spanish term bracero, meaning "manual laborer" [lit. "one who works using his arms"]) was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. |
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| was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, French Morocco from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. |
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| Charter was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 14, 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. It was drafted by the leaders of Britain and the United States, and later agreed to by all the Allies. |
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| was a Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the Naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet (CinCPac), for U.S. naval forces and Commander in Chief, Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.[2] |
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| was revived during World War I (1914–18), after having been discarded at the start of the Age of Steam. |
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| is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines. |
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| relating to or denoting a method of pricing a service or product in which a fixed profit factor is added to the costs. |
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| 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. The D-Day cost was high -more than 9,000 Allied Soldiers were killed or wounded -- but more than 100,000 Soldiers began the march across Europe to defeat Hitler. |
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| "the law disenfranchised some 3,000 voters on the basis of a residence qualification" |
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| was an American general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. |
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| was a German field marshal of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies.[1][2] |
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| was a United States Army general, best known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. |
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| was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s. |
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| The largest island in the formerly British and now independent Solomon Islands (Bougainville Island, which is far larger, was part of German New Guinea, administered by Australia from 1914 to 1975, and part of Papua New Guinea since that country's independence), it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Mendaña in 1568. |
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| Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States of America. The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. |
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| a hedge of wild shrubs and trees, typically bordering a road or field. |
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| a student or trainee who works, sometimes without pay, at a trade or occupation in order to gain work experience. |
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| a small volcanic island, the largest of the Volcano Islands in the western Pacific Ocean, 760 miles (1,222 km) south of Tokyo. During World War II, it was a heavily fortified site of a Japanese airbase, and its attack and capture in 1944–45 was one of the most severe US campaigns. It was returned to Japan in 1968. |
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| was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. |
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| a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. |
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| Korematsu v. United States |
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| the code name for the American project set up in 1942 to develop an atom bomb. The project culminated in 1945 with the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, at White Sands in New Mexico. |
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| a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps. |
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| were people who used obscure languages as a means of secret communication during wartime. The term is now usually associated with the United States soldiers during the world wars who used their knowledge of Native-American languages as a basis to transmit coded messages. |
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| denoting, relating to, or powered by the energy released in nuclear fission or fusion: |
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| The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| was an independent agency of the United States government formed during World War II to coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort. |
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| was a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army. |
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| (January 19, 1905 – August 16, 1995) was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. |
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| the outer limits or edge of an area or object |
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| a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime: |
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| English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1621 to 1626 |
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a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine, esp.:
Florida, noted for resort areas and for the movement of businesses and population into these states from the colder northern states. |
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| is the popular name of a group of African-American pilots who fought in World War II. |
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| an international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
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| the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. |
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| the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered. |
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| a vegetable garden, esp. a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war. |
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| was attention at the arm, with butterfly sleeves and banjo sleeves, and exaggerated shoulder pads for both men and women by the 1940s. |
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| The War Production Board (WPB) was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. |
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| was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps |
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| a man's suit of an exaggerated style, characterized by a long loose jacket with padded shoulders and high-waisted tapering trousers, popular in the 1940s. |
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