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