| A | B |
| Holocaust | The mass murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| front | battle lines in war |
| cold war | hostility between US and the Soviet Union |
| relocation camp | prison camps to detain Japanese Americans |
| concentration camp | prisons used by Nazis for Jews and others |
| island-hopping | US military strategy in the Pacific |
| rationing | limiting what people could buy |
| free world | name for the US and its allies after the war |
| Communism | government in which all property is owned by the government |