AP UNITED STATES HISTORY

TOPIC AND TERMS PEOPLE Com. Matthew Perry, Henry J. Kaiser, A. Philip Randolph, Gen. Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Adm. Chester Nimitz, Marshal Erwin Rommel, Gen. Bernard Montgomery, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gen. George S. Patton, Thomas E. Dewey, Harry S Truman, Adm. William F. “Bull” Halsey, Albert Einstein, TERMS ABC-1 Agreement, Meiji government, Gentleman’s agreement, War Production Board, Office of Price Administration, War Labor Board, WACS and WAVES, “Rosie the Riveter”, “Negro march on Washington”, Fair Employment Practices Commission, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), gross national product, national debt, “island hopping” strategy, “Enigma” codes, the “second front”, “unconditional surrender”, Deaths of Hitler/Roosevelt, Manhattan Project, Alamogordo test, EVENTS Japanese internment, Korematsu v. United States (1944), Meiji government, Burma Road, Bataan Death March, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Guadalcanal, Marianas: Guam and Saipan, El Alamein, Stalingrad, North African Invasion, Casablanca Conference, Italian campaign, Anzio, Teheran Conference, Liberation of Paris, Battle of the Bulge, Elbe River, German surrender (V-E Day), Tokyo fire-bombings, Battle of Leyte, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Potsdam Conference, Hiroshima, Stalin enters the war, Nagasaki, Japanese surrender (V-J Day), VOCABULARY Issei, Nissei, rationing, G.I., braceros, kamikazes.