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San Francisco Conference San Francisco Conference
San Francisco Conference (25 April–26 June 1945). This conference drafted the United Nations Charter. Its origins lay in a 1942 “Declaration by the United Nations” issued by twenty‐six countries that had declared war against the Axis powers, and the 1943 Moscow... Read more
Home Front Home Front
HOME FRONT Home front is a term that describes domestic civilian activity during times of war. During World War II (1939–1945) the U.S. home front was marked by a national purpose that united Americans behind the efforts of the Allied Powers (United States, Great Britain, Russia, and China,... Read more
Arsenal of Democracy Arsenal of Democracy
ARSENAL OF DEMOCRACY Arsenal of Democracy was a phrase used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) to describe the United States as he tried to arouse popular support for sending military aid to nations fighting against the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan, among others)... Read more
Arizona State University Arizona State University
Arizona State University at Tempe; coeducational; opened 1886 as a normal school, became 1925 Tempe State Teachers College, renamed 1945 Arizona State College at Tempe. Its present name was adopted in 1958. The National Undergraduate Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies is there.... Read more
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright 1883-1953, American general, b. Walla Walla, Wash. Commissioned in the army in 1906, he reached the rank of brigadier general in 1938. In World War II he was stationed in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked in Dec., 1941. Wainwright took command after Gen. Douglas... Read more
United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development
Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), US organization which, along with its predecessor, the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), played a key role in the rapid wartime mobilization of American science and engineering. Established before US entry into the war, by 1945 the... Read more
John Curtin John Curtin
John Curtin 1885-1945, Australian political leader. A labor union secretary, he edited (1917-28) a labor weekly and was later a member of the lower house—from 1928 to 1941, except for three years. He became Labour party leader. As wartime prime minister (1941-45), he vigorously organized the... Read more
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek Daniel Carleton Gajdusek
Daniel Carleton Gajdusek , 1923-, American virologist, b. Yonkers, N.Y., M.D. Harvard, 1945. He worked in the United States, Iran, and Australia studying infectious diseases, particularly kuru, a viral brain disease spread among the Fore people of New Guinea by cannibalism. In 1958 he joined the... Read more
Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr Edward Reilly Stettinius Jr
Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. , 1900-1949, American statesman and industrialist, b. Chicago. He held (1926-34) several executive posts in the General Motors Corp., and in 1938 he became chairman of the board of the U.S. Steel Corp. He resigned (1940) as a business executive to join the National... Read more
vivisection vivisection
vivisection , dissection of living animals for experimental purposes. The use of the term in recent years has been expanded to include all experimentation on living animals, rather than just dissection alone. The practice contributed to the outstanding progress that was made in the 17th cent. by... Read more

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