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| Selective Training and Service Act |
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| A 1940 law requiring all males agedd 21 to 36 to register for military service |
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| Office of War Mobilization |
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| Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II |
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| A home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II |
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| An agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchhillin 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims |
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| Method of aerial bombing in which large numbers of bombs are dropped over a wide area |
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| Code name for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 |
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| Nazi Germany's systematic attempt to murder all European Jews |
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| a place where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions |
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| A brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942 |
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| a 1942 World war II military battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific |
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| In World War II, a Japanese suicide plane |
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| A secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb |
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| A term used in 1942 to describe a Mexican farm laborer brought to the United States |
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| A Japanese-American whose parents were born in Japan |
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| In World War II, a German camp created solely for the purpose of mass murder |
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