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MRDA |
Mundri Relief and Development Association (Sudan) |
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MSTS |
Military Sea Transport Service (U.S.) |
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MUFC |
Mandela United Football Club (South Africa) |
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NAACP |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (U.S.) |
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NACA |
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (U.S.) |
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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NAWSA |
National American Women’s Suffrage Association |
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NCO |
noncommissioned officer |
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NEA |
Newspaper Enterprise Association (U.S.) |
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NGO |
nongovernmental organization |
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NLA |
National Liberation Army (Yugoslavia) |
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NLMA |
National Legion of Mothers of America (U.S.) |
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NSBRO |
National Service Board for Religious Objectors (U.S.) |
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NSF/DFW |
National Socialist Frauenschaft/Deutsches Frauenwerk (Women’s Organization/Women’s Work) (Germany) |
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NSK |
Nasjonal Samlings Kvinneorganisasjon (National Gathering Women’s Movement) (Norway) |
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NSWF |
New Sudan Woman’s Federation |
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NUWSS |
National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (UK) |
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OBE |
Order of the British Empire (UK) |
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ORPA |
La Organizacion del Pueblo en Armas (Organization of People in Arms) (Guatemala) |
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OSS |
Office of Strategic Services (U.S. intelligence organization during World War II) |
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Panamanian Defense Forces |
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PFM |
Popular Feminine Movement of Ayacucho (Peru) |
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PGT |
Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo (Guatemalan Labor Party) |
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PKK |
Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (Kurdistan Worker’s Party) (Turkey/Iraq) |
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PLO |
Palestine Liberation Organization |
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PLSK |
Pomocnicza Lotnicza Sluzba Kobiet (Polish Auxiliary Air Force) |
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POW |
prisoner of war |
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PX |
post exchange |
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QAIMNS |
Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (UK) |
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RAANC |
Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps |
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RAF |
Rote Armee Faktion (Red Army Faction) (Germany) |
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RAF |
Royal Air Force (UK) |
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RB |
Red Brigades (Italy) (see BR) |
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ROC |
Reserve Officer Candidate program (U.S.) |
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ROKWAC |
Republic of Korea Women’s Army Corps |
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RPF |
Rwandan Patriotic Front |
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RSFSR |
Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic |
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RTLM |
Radio Television Libre de Mille Collines (Rwanda) |
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RVV |
Haarlemse Raad van Verzet (Haarlem Resistance Council) (Netherlands) |
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SACP |
South Africa Communist Party |
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SAS |
Special Air Services (UK) |
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SAWN |
Spanish-American War Nurses (U.S.) |
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SD |
Sicherheit Deinst (Nazi Security Service) |
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SIP |
Sisterhood of International Peace |
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SL |
Sendero Luminoso (the Shining Path) (Peru) |
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SOE |
Special Operations Executive (British secret operatives during World War II) |
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SPARs |
Women Reserves in the U.S. Coast Guard (from Semper Paratus—Always Ready) |
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SPD |
Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany) |
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SS |
Schutzstaffel (Defense Echelon) (Nazi Germany) |
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SSAFA |
Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Airmen’s Families Association |
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SWH |
Scottish Women’s Hospitals |
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SWSF |
Scottish Women’s Suffrage Federation |
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SWVP |
Sudanese Women’s Voice for Peace |
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TRC |
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru and South Africa) |
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UAW |
United Association of Women (Australia) |
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UCLA |
University of California at Los Angeles |
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UFR |
Union Feminista Revolucionario (Revolutionary Women’s Union) (Cuba) |
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UNICEF |
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund |
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URNG |
Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional de Guatemala (Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity) |
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USAREUP |
U.S. Army Headquarters, Europe |
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USMAG/ROK |
U.S. Military Advisory Group/Republic of Korea |
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USO |
United Service Organizations (U.S.) |
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USPD |
Unabhangige Sozialdemocratische Partei Deutschlands (Independent Socialist Party) (Germany) |
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VAD |
Voluntary Aid Detachment (Australia, UK) |
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VVA |
Vietnam Veterans of America |
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WAAC |
Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (UK, U.S.) |
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WAAF |
Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (UK) |
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WAC |
Women’s Army Corps (U.S.) |
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WAC(I) |
Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India) (UK) |
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WAF |
Women in the Air Force (U.S.) |
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WAFS |
Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (U.S.) |
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WASP |
Women Airforce Service Pilots (U.S.) |
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WAVES |
Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (U.S. Navy Women’s Reserve) |
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WCCA |
Wartime Civil Control Authority (U.S.) |
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WDM |
World Disarmament Movement |
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WEC |
Women’s Emergency Corps (with fellow members of the Actresses’ Franchise League [AFL]) |
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WFTD |
Women’s Flying Training Detachment ("Woofteds") (U.S.) |
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WHC |
Women’s Hospital Corps |
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WHD |
Women’s Home Defense Corps (UK) |
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WILPF |
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom |
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WLV |
Women’s League of Voters (U.S.) |
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WMCR |
Women’s Marine Corps Reserve (U.S.) |
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WNSL |
Women’s National Service League (UK) |
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WNWRA |
Women’s National War Relief Association (U.S.) |
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WODRANS |
Widows, Orphans, and the Disabled Rehabilitation Association of New Sudan |
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WPA |
Women’s Peace Army (Australia) |
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WPA |
Works Progress Administration (U.S.) |
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WRA |
War Relocation Authority (U.S.) |
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WRAF |
Women’s Royal Air Force (UK) |
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WRL |
War Resisters League (U.S.) |
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WRNS |
Women’s Royal Naval Service (referred to as the Wrens) (UK) |
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WSPU |
Women’s Social and Political Union (UK) |
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WSWCT |
Women’s Sick and Wounded Convoy Troops (UK) |
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WVS |
Women’s Volunteer Service (UK) |
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WWC |
Women’s Work Committee |
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WWM |
Women’s Workers’ Movement |
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YMCA |
Young Men’s Christian Association |
