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| Campaign by African Americans for victory against racism abroad (Nazi Holocaust) and racism at home (Jim Crow laws). It held the government responsible for acting consistently toward all human beings. |
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| was a leader in the African-American civil-rights movement, the American labor movement and socialist political parties. He organized and led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the first predominantly black labor union. |
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| It is an amphibious tractor better known as an LVT (landing vehicle tracked) |
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| which began on April 9, 1942, was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II. |
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| was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. |
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| was a series of laws and diplomatic agreements, initiated by an August 1942 exchange of diplomatic notes between the United States and Mexico, for the importation of temporary contract laborers from Mexico to the United States. |
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| was held at the Anfa Hotel in Casablanca, Morocco, then a French protectorate, from January 14 to 24, 1943, to plan the Allied European strategy for the next phase of World War II. |
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| a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which an institution such as a company, college, or city is created and its rights and privileges defined. |
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| was a Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. He played a major role in the Naval history of World War II as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific Fleet |
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| Merchant ships sail in groups protected by an armed naval escort. The system was used to combat threat of unrestricted submarine warfare. |
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| the chief magistrate of a town in Spain. |
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| relating to or denoting a method of pricing a service or product in which a fixed profit factor is added to the costs. |
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| the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. |
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| deprive (someone) of the right to vote. |
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| was an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army who was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. |
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| popularly known as the Desert Fox, was a German field marshal of World War II. He earned the respect of both his own troops and his enemies. |
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| was a United States Army general, best known for his command of the Seventh United States Army, and later the Third United States Army, in the European Theater of World War II. |
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| is the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that lasted up until the 1960s. |
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| a tropical island in the South-Western Pacific. The largest island in the formerly British and now independent Solomon Islands, it was discovered by the Spanish expedition of Álvaro de Mendaña in 1568. |
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| was the 33rd President of the United States of America. The final running mate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944, Truman succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when Roosevelt died after months of declining health. |
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| a hedge of wild shrubs and trees, typically bordering a road or field. |
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| the imprisonment or confinement [disambiguation needed] of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The Oxford English Dictionary (1989) gives the meaning as: "The action of 'interning'; confinement within the limits of a country or place." |
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| one of the Volcano Islands, in the N Pacific, S of Japan: under U.S. administration after 1945; returned to Japan 1968. |
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| was an American aviation pioneer. Doolittle served as an officer in the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War. |
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| (in World War II) a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. |
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| Korematsu v. United States |
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| was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. |
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| was a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. |
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| a highly flammable sticky jelly used in incendiary bombs and flamethrowers, consisting of gasoline thickened with special soaps. |
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| The Navajo Code Talkers were a group of Native Americans who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II. |
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| of or relating to the nucleus of an atom. |
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| Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II. |
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| Office of Price Administration |
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| the federal agency (1941–46) charged with regulating rents and the distribution and prices of goods during World War II. |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| The Office of War Mobilization (OWM) was an independent agency of the United States government formed during World War II to coordinate all government agencies involved in the war effort |
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| a United States Army field commander in North Africa and Europe during World War II, and a General of the Army |
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| was the first secretary of the US Department of Health, Education and Welfare, first commanding officer of the Women's Army Corps, and chairperson of the board of the Houston Post. |
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| the outer limits or edge of an area or object. |
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| allow each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity). |
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| was an American football player and coach. He first served his country in World War II, and returned home to he enroll in North Carolina A&T State University from 1946 to 1950 |
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| a strip of territory receiving a high amount of sunshine |
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| The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African-American military aviators in the United States armed forces. |
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| An international organization of countries set up in 1945, in succession to the League of Nations, to promote international peace, security, and cooperation. |
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| he day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945. |
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| the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered. |
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| a vegetable garden, especially a home garden, planted to increase food production during a war. |
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| was known as the "Utility" suit in England, was made of a wool-synthetic blend |
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| was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. |
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| a man's suit of an exaggerated style, characterized by a long loose jacket with padded shoulders and high-waisted tapering trousers, popular in the 1940s. |
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