Chapter 18
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| 309938351 | Selective Training and service act | 1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service | 0 | |
| 309938352 | G I | Government Issue | 1 | |
| 309938353 | office of war mobilization | Coordinated all government agencies involved in the war effort | 2 | |
| 309938354 | liberty ships | Ships built using mass production methods that carried goods and troops during WWII. | 3 | |
| 309938355 | victory garden | A home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II | 4 | |
| 309938356 | code talkers | Navajo troops who used their language to send messages in a code the Japanese were never able to break | 5 | |
| 309938357 | Tuskegee Airmen | Famous segregated unit of African American pilots | 6 | |
| 309938358 | bond drives | held throughout war and used to collect money to fund war | 7 | |
| 309938359 | rationing | limitations on the amount of certain goods that people can buy | 8 | |
| 309938360 | Atlantic Charter | 1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war | 9 | |
| 309938361 | carpet bombing | Method of aerial bombing in which large numbers of bombs are dropped over a wide area | 10 | |
| 309938362 | D-Day | June 6, 1944; Americans and British forces under General Dwight Eisenhower landed on the beaches of Normandy; this was history's greatest naval invasion. | 11 | |
| 309938363 | Battle of the bulge | battle in which German forces launched a final counter attack causing a bulge in the line | 12 | |
| 312164584 | V-E day | May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day when the Germans surrendered | 13 | |
| 312164585 | Yalta | early agreement by FDR,Churchill and Stalin on postwar Germany and eastern Europe, First peace conference after WWII | 14 | |
| 312164586 | Anti-semitism | prejudice and/or hatred of Jews. | 15 | |
| 312239456 | Holocaust | the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during WWII | 16 | |
| 312239457 | concentration camp | prison camps operated by the Nazis where Jews and others were starved while doing slave labor, or murdered | 17 | |
| 312239458 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. | 18 | |
| 312239459 | Warsaw Ghetto | An area of Warsaw sealed off by the Nazis to confine the Jewish population, forcing them into poor, unsanitary conditions | 19 | |
| 312239460 | Wannsee Conference | conference to figure out what to do with the Jews in Germany | 20 | |
| 312239461 | genocide | systematic killing of a racial or cultural group | 21 | |
| 312239462 | death camp | In World War II, a German camp created solely for the purpose of mass murder | 22 | |
| 312239463 | War refugee Board | to try to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis | 23 | |
| 312239464 | Nuremberg Trials | Trials of the Nazi leaders, showed that people are responsible for their actions, even in wartime | 24 | |
| 312239465 | Nuremberg Laws | A group of laws that robbed German Jews of their citizenship in 1935 | 25 | |
| 312239466 | Bataan Death March | April 1942, American soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died in route. | 26 | |
| 312963225 | Geneva Convention | an agreement concerning the treatment of prisoners of war | 27 | |
| 312963226 | Battle of the Coral Sea | A battle between Japanese and American naval forces that stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. | 28 | |
| 312963227 | Battle Midway | 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific | 29 | |
| 312963228 | Battle Guadalcanal | World War II battle in the Pacific; it represented the first Allied counter-attack against Japanese forces; Allied victory forced Japanese forces to abandon the island | 30 | |
| 313012772 | island-hopping | strategy of Allies in WWII of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others | 31 | |
| 313012773 | Battle of Leyte Gulf | 1944 World War II naval battle between the United States and Japan. Largest naval engagement in history. Japanese navy was defeated. | 32 | |
| 313012774 | Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots | 33 | |
| 313012775 | Battle Iwo Jima | famous photograph of US marines lifting the American flag to a standpoint ,bloodiest battle of the war | 34 | |
| 313012776 | Battle of Okinawa | largest amphibious assault in Pacific; last battle of WWII ,last obstacle to get to Japan | 35 | |
| 313012777 | Manhattan Project | A secret U.S. project for the construction of the atomic bomb. | 36 | |
| 313012778 | Enola Gay | name of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb | 37 | |
| 313012779 | Hiroshima | Japanese city on which the first atomic bomb was dropped (August 6, 1945). | 38 | |
| 313012780 | Nagasaki | drop 2nd atomic bomb here 3 days later after the 1st bomb in Hiroshima | 39 | |
| 313012781 | V-J Day | August 15, 1945 - the Victory in Japan Day when the Japanese surrendered | 40 | |
| 313012782 | Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) | an organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality | 41 | |
| 313012783 | bracero | A term used in 1942 to describe a Mexican farm laborer brought to the United States | 42 | |
| 313012784 | barrio | A Spanish-speaking neighborhood | 43 | |
| 313057858 | interned | imprisoned, detained, confined Japanese in America | 44 | |
| 313057859 | Nisei | American-born Japanese | 45 | |
| 313057860 | 1988 | Congress passed a law awarding each surviving Japanese American 20,000 and an officiallly apologized | 46 | |
| 313057861 | Rosie the Riveter | symbol of working women in WWII | 47 |
