Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Vocab Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely without concessions |
| saturation bombing | inflict maximum damage |
| strageic bombing | to destroy Germany's capacity to make war |
| Battle of Midway | the turning point of the war in the Pacific, ending the unstoppable Japanese advance |
| Executive order 8802 | assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money |
| bracero program | brought labors from mexico to work on american farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| Korematsu vs. US | a case concerning the constitunionality of the japanese internment camps during ww2 |
| 442nd Regimental combat team | became most decorated military unit in american history |
| rationing | limits on number of goods |
| Office of war info | worked closely to media to encourage support of war effot |
| d-day | allies hit germany in force on the beaches of normandy |
| battle of the bulge | counter attack that created a bulge in the american line |
| island-hopping | capturing only certain japanese held islands |
| kamikaze | pilots who deliberatly crashed their planes into american ships |
| Manhattan Project | the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| Holocaust | the Nazi attempt to kill all jews under their control |
| anti-Semitism | discrimination against the Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws | discriminatory laws against the Jews in Germany |
| Kristallnacht | German people sabatoged Jewish homes and property without interference of the Police |
| genocide | annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| concentration camps | a camp where certain groups were confined |
| death camps | where prisoners were systematically terminated |
| War refugee board | worked with red cross to help thousands of eastern european jews |
| Yalta Conference | the big three agreed that poland, bulgaria, and romania would have free elections |
| superpower | Countries that were war confident and strong |
| general agreement on tariffs and trade | expand world trade by reducing tariffs |
| United nations | an organizations that many hoped would succeed where the league of nations failed |
| Geneva convention | an internation agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| Nuremberg Trials | the allies prosecuted nazis for war crimes |
Created by:
sarabelle1095
Popular U.S. History sets