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German born physicist who helped persuade Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb
The American conquest of Guam an other islands in the Marianas in 1944 was especially important because...
Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term.
The devastating new weapon used by the US against Japan in August 1945
Commander of the Allied military assault against Hitler in North Africa and France
Japanese emperor who was allowed to stay on his throne, despite unconditional surrender policy
Iranian capital where Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met to plan D Day in coordination with Russian strategy against Hitler in the East
Crucial naval battle of June 1942 in which US Admiral Chester Nimitz blocked the Japanese attempts to conquer a strategic island near Hawaii.
Commander of the US Army in the Pacific during World War II who fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines
FDR's liberal vice president during most of World War II, dumped form the ticket in 1944
The last two heavily defended Japanese islands conquered by the US in 1945
The Beginning of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944
The federal agency established dot guarantee opportunities for African American employment in World War II industries
Compared with British and Soviet women during World War II, more American women...
Women's units of the army and navy during World War II
Mexican American workers brought into the US to provide an agricultural labor supply
A federal agency that coordinated US industry and successfully mobilized the economy to produce vast quantities of military supplies
A US minority that was forced into concentration camps during the World War II
Besides African Americans , another traditionally rural group who used service in the arm forces as a springboard to postwar urban life were...
US owned Pacific archipelago seized by Japan in the early months of World War II