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Chapter 24 Review 442nd Regimental Combat Team Japanese American combat team that became the most decorated military unit in American history A. Philip Randolph African American labor leader Albert Einstein world-famous scientist who alerted Roosevelt of the need to develop atomic weapons bracero program program in which laborers were brought from Mexico to work on American farms Bulge, Battle of the German counterattack that failed, resulting in an Allied victory Chester Nimitz Commander of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific D-Day June 6, 1944, the day Allied forces invaded France Dwight Eisenhower American general and commander of Allied forces El-Alamein, Battle of Germans defeated by British in turning point of war in North Africa Executive Order 8802 measure that assured fair hiring practices in jobs funded with government money General Erwin Rommel Commander of German Afrika Korps in North Africa, known as the Desert Fox George S. Patton, Jr. American general and tank commander Guadalcanal, Battle of First offensive operation carried out by the US in the Pacific Theater Harry S. Truman President during the end of World War II Hiroshima First atomic bomb dropped on this Japanese city by the US internment temporary imprisonment island hopping American strategy of capturing selected islands in the Pacific in a steady path to Japan J. Robert Oppenheimer key leader of the Manhattan Project kamikaze Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into American ships Korematsu v. United States Supreme Court case that upheld the government’s wartime internment policy Manhattan Project code name for the program to develop an atomic bomb Midway, Battle of American victory and turning point of the war in the Pacific Nagasaki Second atomic bomb dropped on this Japanese city by the US, Japan surrenders Okinawa, Battle of Bloodiest battle in Pacific War, US suffers nearly 50,000 casualties OWI Office of War Information, encouraged support of the war effort rationing system that limits the amount of certain goods people can buy Rosie the Riveter Named given to fictional female factory worker symbolic of the effort made by women in the war industry saturation bombing dropping massive amounts of bombs to inflict maximum damage Stalingrad, Battle of Germans defeated by Soviets in turning point of war on Eastern Front strategic bombing dropping bombs on key targets to destroy the enemy’s capacity to make war Tuskegee Airmen African American fighter squadron U-boat German submarines responsible for sinking hundreds of Allied ships unconditional surrender giving up completely without any concessions VE Day May 7, 1945, victory in Europe VJ Day August 15, 1945, victory in Japan Zoot Suit Riots Conflict in Los Angeles in 1943 between GI's and Mexican Americans
