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Pearl Harbor Attack
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War Productions Board
Rationed fuel and materials vital to the war effort, such as gasoline, heating oil, metals, rubber, and plastics -
Women’s Auxiliary Army Corps
The law gave the WAACs an official status and salary but few of the benefits granted to male soldiers. In July 1943, after thousands of women had enlisted, the U.S. Army dropped the “auxiliary” status, and granted WACs full U.S. Army benefits. WACs worked as nurses, ambulance drivers, radio operators, electricians, and pilots—nearly every duty not involving direct combat. -
Operation Torch
Operation Torch was an invasion of Axis-controlled North Africa, commanded by American General Dwight D. Eisenhower. In November 1942, some 107,000 Allied troops, the great majority of them Americans, landed in Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers in North Africa. From there they sped eastward, chasing the Afrika Korps led by General Erwin Rommel, the legendary Desert Fox. After months of heavy fighting, the last of the Afrika Korps surrendered in May 1943. -
Unconditional surrender
Enemy nations would have to accept whatever terms of peace the Allies dictated. After Operation Torch, the US and Britain met in Casablanca and agreed to accept only the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers. -
D-Day
Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944, also known as D-Day, when some 156,000 American, British and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a 50-mile stretch of the heavily fortified coast of France's Normandy region. -
Harry S. Truman
President Roosevelt did not live to see V-E Day. On April 12, 1945, while posing for a portrait in Warm Springs, Georgia, the president had a stroke and died. That night, Vice President Harry S. Truman became the nation’s 33rd president. -
Manhattan Project
the OSRD set this intensive program in 1942 to develop a bomb as quickly as possible. Because much of the early research was performed at Columbia University in Manhattan, the Manhattan Project became the code name for research work that extended across the country -
The Battle of the Bulge
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Death of Hitler
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V-E Day
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Lend-Lease Act
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Office of Price Administration
Roosevelt responded to the threat of extreme price raises by creating the Office of Price Administration (OPA). The OPA fought inflation by freezing prices on most goods. -
Phony War
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Nonaggression Pact
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Blitzkrieg
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Germany and Italy's invasion of France
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Marshal Philippe Petain
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The Battle of Britain
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Internment
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Korematsu vs. United States
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Joseph Stalin's totalitarian government in the Soviet Union
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Benito Mussolini's fascist government in Italy
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Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany
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Mein Kampf
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Storm Troopers
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Third Reich
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Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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Hitler's military build-up in Germany
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Hitler invades the Rhineland
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Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia
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Francisco Franco
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Rome-Berlin Axis
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Hitler's Anschluss
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Munich Agreement
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Britain and France declare war on Germany
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Hitler's invasion of Denmark and Norway
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U.S. convoy system
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Battle of Stalingrad
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Hitler's invasion of the Netherlands
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Bloody Anzio
