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Chapter 15 Vocab
Logan McGee US History 10/30/12 Block 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Unconditional Surrender | giving up completely without any concession |
| 2. Saturation Bombing | Tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage |
| 3. Strategic Bombing | Tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industries targets |
| 4. Tuskegee Airmen | African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe furing WWII |
| 5. Battle of Midway | Turning point of WWII in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped |
| 6. Executive Order 8802 | WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government |
| 7. Bracero Program | plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| 8. Internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| 9. Korematsu v. United States | the supreme court upheld the govt. wartime internment policy |
| 10. 442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian compaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history |
| 11. Rationing | government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime |
| 12. OWI | government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WWII |
| 13. D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normanady, France |
| 14. Battle of the Bulge | in Decemeber 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops |
| 15. Island Hopping | World War II strategy that involed seizing selected Japanese-help islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| 16. Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WWII |
| 17. Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| 18. Holocaust | name now used to describe the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| 19. anti-Semitism | Prejudic and dicrimination against Jewish people |
| 20. Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 21. Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass," organized attacks on Jewish comminities in Germany on November 9, 1938 |
| 22. Genocide | willful annihilation of racial, political, or cultural group |
| 23. Concentration Camp | camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society |
| 24. Death Camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prosoners |
| 25. War Refugee Board | U.S. govt. agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews |
| 26. Yalta Conference | 1945 Strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
| 27. Superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic, polical, and military role in the world |
| 28. GATT | international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| 29. United Nations | Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace |
| 30. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document issued bu the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms |
| 31. Geneva Convention | internations agreement governing the himane tratment of wounded soliders and prisoners of war |
| 32. Nuremberg | trails in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
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