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| Internment Camps | the relocation and confinement by the US government of approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor |
| Operation Overlord | the code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German occupied western Europe during WWII |
| War Bonds | debt securities issued by a government for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military and economic leadership of the Nazis |
| United Nations | was founded in 1945 after WWII to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries |
| Pearl Harbor | Surprise aerial attack on a U.S. naval base in Hawaii, by the Japanese that prompted the United States to enter World War II |
| Battle of Midway | A battle fought over a mid-Pacific island that is considered the turning point of the war between the U.S. and Japan |
| Rosie the Riveter | A character that was the symbol of the campaign to hire women |
| Great Migration | A mass movement of African Americans from the South to the North |
| Rationing | With the onset of World War II, the government found it necessary to ask Americans to conserve on everything |
| Victory Gardens | Gardens planted by Americans to help the war effort |
| D-Day | first day of the Invasion of Normandy |
| Manhattan Project | A secret military project created in 1942 to produce the first US nuclear weapon |
| Hiroshima | On August 6th, 1945, a B-29 heavy bomber dropped the first atomic bomb on this Japanese city |
| Nagasaki | On August 9th, 1945 another B-29 bomber dropped the second atomic bomb on the industrial section of this Japanese city |
