| A | B |
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| neutrality | A policy of not choosing sides in a war or dispute between other countries |
| rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military |
| embargo | A government order preventing trade with another country |
| island hopping | American military strategy in the Pacific of seizing islands closer and closer to Japan, using them as bases for air attacks, and cutting off Japanese supplies |
| desegregation | The process of ending authorized segregation, or separation by race |
| Geneva Convention | a set of international standards that attempted to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war |
| Bataan Death March | American prisoners of war suffered brutal treatment by the Japanese after the surrender of the Philippines during WWII |
| genocide | the systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious or cultural group |
| final solution | Germany's decision to exterminate all Jews |
| Nuremburg Trials | Nazi leaders and others were convicted of war crimes, where individual responsibility for actions during the war were emphasized, regardless of orders received |
| war bonds | Certificates sold by the United States government to pay for the war. |
| internment camps | Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President |
| censorship | banning or filtering information to limit citizens' knowledge of events during the war |
| United Nations | an organization that created a body for the nations of the world to attempt to avoid future conflict |
| Tuskegee Airmen | segregated unit of African American soldiers during WWII that served with distinction in Europe, fought in Italy and North Africa against the Axis powers |
| Holocaust | the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945 |
| Lend-Lease Act | a U.S. law that gave the president the authority to sell or lend equipment to countries to defend themselves against the Axis powers, before the U.S. joined WWII |
