Chapter 38 people

Leading American industrialist and shipbuilder during WWII

Tough head of the United Mine Workers, whose work stoppages precipitated anti-strike laws

Head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters whose threatened march on Washington opened job opportunities for blacks during WWII

Site of a serious racial disturbance during WWII

U.S. ally who resisted Japanese advances in China during WWII

Commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific during WWII, who fulfilled his promise to return to the Philippines

Commander of the U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and brilliant strategist of the "island-hopping" campaign

Commander of the Allied military assault against Hitler in North Africa and France

Allied leader who met with FDR to plan strategy at Casablanca and Tehran

The Allied leader who constantly pressured the U.S. a nd Britain to open a "second front" against Hitler

Republican presidential nominee in 1944 who failed in his effort to deny FDR a fourth term

FDR;s liberal vice president during most of WWII, dumped from the ticket in 1944

Inconspicuous former senator from Missouri who was suddenty catapulted to national and world leadership on April 12, 1945

German-born physicist who helped persuade Roosevelt to develop the atomic bomb

Japanese emperor who was allowed to stay on his throne despite unconditional surrender policy