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 * 121. Japanese American Citizen League:** an organization that pushed the U.S. government to compensate Japanese Americans for property they had lost when they were interned during WW II. **Book. Maddison B**
 * 122. James Farmer:** civil rights leader an interracial organization called the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) to confront urban segregation in the North. **Book. Maddison B**
 * 123. Korematsu v. US:** that the government’s policy of evacuating Japanese Americans to camps was justified on the basis of “military necessity.” **Book. Maddison B**
 * 124. Congress Of Racial Equality:** to confront urban segregation in the North**. Book. Maddison B**
 * 125. "zoot suit":** was a style of dress adopted by Mexican-American youths as a symbol of their rebellion
 * 126: "Fat Man" & "Little Boy":** is the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date (the other being "Little Boy"), and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. **( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man) Maddison B**


 * 127: Battle of Corregidor:** The Battle for Corregidor was the culmination of the Japanese campaign for the conquest of the Philippines. The fall of Bataan on April 9, 1942 ended all organized opposition by the U.S. Army Forces Far East to the invading Japanese forces on Luzon in the northern Philippines. Dictionary- Brenna Palmer


 * 128: Tuskegee Airmen:** Popular name for the first cadre of African-American pilots in the US military. Based in Tuskegee, Alabama, and formed as a fighter squadron of the US Army Air Corps in 1941, they served with distinction in World War II. Dictionary-Brenna Palmer


 * 129: Bataan Death March:** The Bataan Death March (also known as The Death March of Bataan) took place in the Philippines in 1942 and was later accounted as a Japanese war crime. Dictionary-Brenna Palmer


 * 130: Admiral Yamamoto:** Naval Marshal General and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Dictionary-Brenna Palmer


 * 131:kamikaze:** A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. Dictionary-Brenna Palmer


 * 132: Battle of Guadalcanal:** Guadalcanal: a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces Brenna Palmer


 * 133: Dr. Leo Szilard:** Austro-Hungarian physicist who conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi, and in late 1939 wrote the letter for Albert Einstein's signature that resulted in the Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb. Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 134:Congress of Racial Equality:** an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality Dictionary. Brenna Palmer


 * 135: Albert Einstein:** physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955). Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 136: ”Bloody Anzio":** Operation Shingle (January 22, 1944), during the Italian Campaign of World War II, was an Allied amphibious landing against Axis forces in the area of Anzio and Nettuno, Italy. Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 137: Battle of the Coral Sea:** a Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942); the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 138: War Production Board: E**stablished as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by executive order of Franklin D. Roosevelt Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 139: Korematsu v. U. S.:** was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II Dictionary Brenna Palmer


 * 140: Battle of Midway:** naval battle of World War II (June 1942); American planes based on land and on carriers decisively defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands Dictionary Brenna Palmer