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Chapter 15 pg. 464

World War II 1941-1945

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Dwight Eisenhower Known as Ike. He commanded the Allied invasion of North Africa.
George S. Patton Jr. An innovative tank commander.
Unconditional Surrender Giving up completely without any concessions.
Saturation Bombing Inflict maximum damage.
Strategic Bombing Destroyed Germany's capacity to make war.
Tuskegee Airmen An African American fighter squadron.
Chester Nimitz Commander of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific knew the Japanese plan.
Battle of Midway The turning point of the war in the Pacific.
A. Philip Randolph Assorted for African Americans that they wouldn't accept second-class citizenship.
Executive Order 8802 Jobs funded with gov't money.
Bracero Program Brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.
Internment Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.
Korematsu v. U.S. Supreme Court upheld the gov't wartime internment policy.
44nd Regimental Combat Team Fought the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history.
Rationing Another form of economic control.
Office of War Information Worked with the media to support the war effort.
D-Day The Allies hit Germany in force.
Battle of the Bulge A counterattack.
Harry S. Truman He would be the new president.
Island hopping Captured Japanese held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward Japan.
Kamikaze Pilots crashed their planes into American ships.
Albert Einstein A famous scientist.
Manhattan Project Cost billion dollars and employed tons of people.
J. Robert Oppenheimer A phyicist.
Holocaust The Nazis tried to kill all Jews under their control.
Anti-Semitism Jews were blamed for all ills in Germany.
Nuremberg Laws Named the city that served as a spiritual center of Natism.
Kristallnacht The "Night of the Broken Glass."
Genocide A type of group.
Concentraion Camps Members were designated groups that were confined.
Death Camps Prisoners were killed systematically.
War Refugee Board Worked in Red Cross to save Eastern European Jews.
Yalta Conference The Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections.
Super Power Defeated the Axis Powers.
GATT A 1948 treaty to expand world trade by reducing tariffs.
United Nations Organization that, many hoped, would succeed where the League of Nations had forced.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights The United Nations issued.
Geneva Convention International agreement governing the humanic treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
Nuremburg Trials The Allies prosecuted Nazis of war crime.
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