- 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