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35 Vocabulary
ABC-1
Agreement Agreement with Britain that the US should focus on Germany instead of the Pacific to avoid
the collapse of the Soviet Union and Britain
Executive Order No. 9066
Affects some 110,000 Japanese Americans by forcing them into concentration camps. Justified by postPearl Harbor hysteria and a long standing anti-Japanese mindset of the West
War Production Board (WPB)
Launched factories into cranking out an unprecedented amount of weaponry including bullets, aircraft,
ships, tanks and machine guns
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
Calmed prices caused by the influx of weaponry production with extensive regulations
National War Labor Board (NWLB)
Imposed ceilings on wage increases.
Smith-Connally Anti-Strike Act
Passed in June 1943, authorized the federal government to seize and operate tied-up industries. Strikes
with any government-operated establishment were made a federal crime
WAACs (Womens Army Auxiliary Corps)
Focused on putting women into non-combat situations in the Army
WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Services)
Focused on putting women into non-combat situations in the Navy
SPARs (US Coast Guard Womens Reserve)
Focused on putting women into non-combat situations in the Coast Guard
Bracero Program
Brought Mexican agricultural workers to harvest the crops in the West because the draft left these
industries without any personnel
Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC)
Blacks were now drafted into the armed forces but generally not in a combat position but to a service
branch
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
Founded in 1942, committed to non-violent militant direct action
Navajo Code Talkers
Transmitted radio messages in their native language which was incomprehensible to the Germans and the
Japanese
Battle of Midway
Fought on June 3-June 6, this victory combined with the victory at the Battle of the Coral Sea, stopped
Japans naval juggernaut
D-Day
June 6, 1944, invasion of the beach of Normandy which worsened Germanys fuel shortage and broke the
iron ring

V-E (Victory in Europe Day)

May 8, 1945, supported by all Allied countries

Potsdam Conference
Attended by President Truman, Joseph Stalin and British leaders, Japan had to either surrender or
be destroyed
Manhattan Project
Development of the atomic bomb
V-J (Victory in Japan Day)
September 2, 1945, Japan officially surrenders
Douglas MacArthur
Aboard ship when Japan officially surrendered
Chester Nimitz
Guided small but important fleet at the Battle of Midway
Dwight D. Ike Eisenhower
Headed secret attack on French-controlled North Africa
Harry S. Truman
Took control of the Presidency after Roosevelts death, attended the Potsdam Conference
Albert Einstein
Helped persuade Roosevelt to unlock the secrets of the atomic bomb