| A | B |
| Neutrality Acts | Laws that declared that the US would not pick sides in WW II |
| Bombing of Pearl Harbor | Japanese surprise attack on US naval base in Hawaii |
| Lend-Lease Act | Law that allowed the US to help the Allies while not joining WW II. |
| Franklin Roosevelt | US president during most of WW II |
| Harry Truman | US president at the end of WW II |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Sites of the atomic bombings that brought WW II to an end |
| Internment camps | Places where people of Japanese ancestry were sent during WW II |
| Korematsu vs. US | Case in which Japanese internment was found to be legal |