Dresden - This German city was firebombed by the Allies.
Slaughterhouse - Billy and the other Americans POWs are housed in this Dresden building.
Tralfamadore - Billy is kept in a zoo here.
Children's Crusade - A march in which many children died.
mustard gas and roses - Bad, rotten things smell like this.
- The author promises the reader that the book will end with these words.
Ilium - The city in New York where Billy and his wife Valencia live.
So it goes - This phrases marks every death in the book.
Weary's knife - It makes wounds that do not close.
Plane crash - This happens when Billy is going to an optometrist convention.
Sodom and Gemorrah - Biblical cities which God destroyed because there were wicked people living there.
Princess - A dog who is led by the Germans who capture Billy.
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