April 1942, American and Filipino soldiers were forced to march 65 miles to prison camps by their Japanese captors. It is called the Death March because so may of the prisoners died en route.

U.S. naval victory over the Japanese fleet in June 1942, in which the Japanese lost four of their best aircraft carriers. It marked a turning point in World War II.

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others.

Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to produce the atomic bomb.

City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, on August 6, 1945.

American general, who commanded allied troops in the Pacific during World War II.

Native American hero in the battle for Iwo Jima in the Pacific.

An elite unit of 29 Native Americans that used their language as a code to communicate messages during the war.

Japanese suicide pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and crashed them into American ships.

Someone who forces entry into a place where they are unwanted

To give in or give up; to accept defeat.

Converted factories from civilian to military production. Manufacturing output tripled.

A limited portion or allowance of food or goods; limitation of use

A propaganda character designed to increase production of female workers in the factories.

African American leader who threatens a march to end discrimination in the work place during World War II.

Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms during World War II.

Roosevelt signed a document Feb. 19,1942 stating that all people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona, needed to be placed in camps because of their fear for another attack by the Japanese.

A series of violent protests in Los Angeles, California during World War II when soldiers stationed in the city and Mexican youths faced off.