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Henry J. Kaiser
Leading American industrialist and shipbuilder during WWII
John L. Lewis
Tough head of the United Mine Workers, whose work stoppages precipitated anti-strike laws
A. Philip Randolph
Head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters whose threatened march on Washington opened job opportunities for blacks during WWII
Detroit
Site of a serious racial disturbance during WWII
Jiang Jieshi (Hiang Kai-shek)
U.S. ally who resisted Japanese advances in China during WWII
Douglas MacArthur
Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII, who fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines
Chester W. Nimitz
Commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and brilliant strategist of the "island-hopping" campaign
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Commander of the Allied military assault against Hitler in North Africa and France
Winston Churchill
Allied leader who met with FDR to plan strategy at Casablanca and Tehran
Joseph Stalin
The Allied leader who constantly pressured the U.S. a nd Britain to open a "second front" against Hitler
Thomas Dewey
Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term
Henry A. Wallace
FDR;s liberal vice president during most of WWII, dumped from the ticket in 1944
Harry S. Truman
Inconspicuous former senator from Missouri who was suddenty catapulted to national and world leadership on April 12, 1945
Albert Einstein
German-born physicist who helped persuade Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb
Hirohito
Japanese emperor who was allowed to stay on his throne despite unconditional surrender policy
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