| A | B |
| Selective Training & Service Act | Created first peacetime draft in U.S. history |
| Truman | President during WWII |
| Issei | First generation Japanese Americans (born in Japan) |
| Internment | Imprisonment |
| 30,000 | Number of Mexican Americans who served in WWII |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol for American women workers during WWII |
| African Americans | Americans who fought in segregated units |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide planes; word means "divine wind" |
| Enola Gay | Plane used to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima |
| Manhattan Project | Scientists who created the atomic bomb |
| 1945 | Year WWII ended |
| 1941 | Year of attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Systematic Genocide | Deliberate destruction of an entire people |
| Auschwitz | Concentration camp |
| Warsaw | City of Jewish ghetto |
| Black Rain | Rain affected by radioactive debris |
| Propaganda | Persuasive materials |