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Matching
 
 
a.
War Production Board (WPB)
n.
Manhattan Project
b.
Harry S. Truman
o.
George Marshall
c.
Hiroshima
p.
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
d.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
q.
Douglas MacArthur
e.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
r.
Nagasaki
f.
Chester Nimitz
s.
Office of Price Administration (OPA)
g.
Philip Randolph
t.
Yalta Conference
h.
Battle of the Bulge
u.
V-E Day
i.
D-Day
v.
United Nations (UN)
j.
Nuremberg Trials
w.
Nisei
k.
rationing
x.
kamikaze
l.
GI Bill of Rights
y.
Japanese American Citizens League (JACL)
m.
George Patton
z.
James Farmer
 

 1. 

German counteroffensive in December 1944
 

 2. 

Agency of the federal government that fought inflation
 

 3. 

Commander of American naval forces in the Pacific
 

 4. 

Victory in Europe Day,May 8, 1945
 

 5. 

Army chief of staff during World War
 

 6. 

Allied invasion of Normandy to liberate Europe
 

 7. 

Japanese suicide plane
 

 8. 

Government agency that decided which companies would make  war materials and how to distribute raw materials
 

 9. 

Japanese city that was the site of the second atomic-bomb drop
 

 10. 

American commander in the Philippines  Military governor of Japan after World War Two
 

 11. 

American general Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
 

 12. 

Secret project to develop the atomic bomb
 

 13. 

Important African-American labor leader
 

 14. 

33rd president of the United States - took office after FDR died
 

 15. 

City that was the site of the first atomic-bomb drop in Japan
 

 16. 

Scientist who led the Manhattan Project
 

 17. 

Japanese Americans born in the United States
 

 18. 

American general led American forces that defeated Erwin Rommel in Africa
 

 19. 

Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to  assure adequate supplies for the military
 

 20. 

International organization formed in 1945
 

 21. 

Tribunal that tried Nazi leaders for war crimes
 

 22. 

Meeting of Truman, Churchill, and Stalin in 1945
 

 23. 

Civil rights group formed by Japanese Americans
 

 24. 

Law passed by Congress to help servicemen readjust to civilian life
 

 25. 

Civil rights leader who founded the Congress of Racial Equality
 

 26. 

Interracial organization formed to fight discrimination
 



 
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