"Board of Economic Warfare", "the successor of the Economic Defense Board, and was meant to develop policies and programs to strengthen U.S. international economic relations." "Civil Air Patrol Civil Air Patrol (CAP)", "a Congressionally chartered, federally supported, non-profit corporation that serves as the official civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force. During World War II, CAP was seen as a way to use America's civilian aviation resources to aid the war effort instead of grounding them. Civil Defense Corps The Civil Defense Corps, run by the Office of Civilian Defense, organized approximately 10 million volunteers to fight fires, decontaminate after chemical weapon attacks, provide first aid, and other duties." "Office of Price Administration(OPA)", "established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government on August 28, 1941. The functions of the OPA were originally to control money (price controls) and rents after the outbreak of World War II." "War Production Board (WPB)", "was established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its purpose was to regulate the production of materials and fuel during World War II in the United States and to convert peacetime industries into wartime ones." "War Finance Committee", "in charge of supervising the sale of all war bonds. war bond A type of savings bond used by nations to help fund war efforts." "Bataan Death March", "took place in 1942 was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 76,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners, two battalions made up primarily of Hispanics included." "Code Talkers", "during World War II usually refers to the 400 Native American Marines who served in the United States Marine Corps whose primary job was the transmission of secret tactical messages over military telephone or radio communications nets using formal or informally developed codes built upon their native languages. The name code talkers is strongly associated with bilingual Navajo speakers specially recruited during World War II by the Marines to serve in their standard communications units in the Pacific Theater. These codes were never broken." "Rosie the Riveter", "is a cultural icon of the United States, representing the American women who worked in factories during World War II, many of whom produced munitions and war supplies. These women sometimes took entirely new jobs replacing the male workers who were in the military." "Tuskegee Airmen", "the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. The Tuskegee Airmen were subjected to racial discrimination, both within and outside the army, despite these adversities, however, they trained and flew with distinction." "Executive order 9066", "a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. Eventually, EO 9066 cleared the way for the relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps." "Korematsu vs. United States", "a 1944 landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II. In a 6-3 decision, the Court sided with the government, ruling that the exclusion order was constitutional." "Holocaust", "The systematic mass murder (democide) of 11 million people, namely 6 million Jews and 5 million Romanis, Slavs, homosexuals and others, perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II." "Evian Conference", "convened at the initiative of President Roosevelt in July 1938 to discuss the issue of increasing numbers of Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. With both the United States and Britain refusing to take in substantial numbers of Jews and most of the other participating countries following suit, the result was that the Jews had no escape and were ultimately subject to what was known as Hitler's "Final Solution to the Jewish Question"." "Enola Gay", "the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on HiroshimaHiroshima A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945." "Hiroshima", "A city in Honshu, Japan, devastated by the first atomic bomb dropped in warfare on August 6, 1945." "Nagasaki", "A large city in Western Kyushu, in Japan; it was annihilated by the second military use of the atomic bomb on August 9, 1945" "Manhattan Project", "A research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II."
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