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Chapter 15 Vocab
Chapter 15 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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1) Unconditional Surrender- | Giving up completely without any concessions. |
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 industrial targets. |
4) Tuskegee Airmen- | African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II. |
5) Battle of Midway- | Turning point of World War II in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance stopped. |
6) Executive Order 8802- | World War II measure that ensured 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- | 1944 Supreme Court case where some Japanese Americans went to seek their rights. The Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy. |
10) 442nd Regimental Combat Team- | Japanese American armed force group formed in 1943 that fought in the Italian campaign 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- | (Office of War Information) Government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during World War II. |
13) D-Day- | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. |
14) Battle of the Bulge- | In December 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 involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others. |
16) Kamikaze- | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during World War II. |
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- | Prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people. |
20) Nuremburg Laws- | Laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews. |
21) Kristallnacht- | "Night of the Broken Glass", organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938. |
22) Genocide- | Willful annihilation of a 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 prisoners. |
25) War Refugee Board- | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews. |
26) Yalta Conference- | 1945 strategic meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. |
27) Superpower- | Powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world. |
28) GATT- | (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed in lowering trade barriers. |
29) United Nations- | Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. |
30) Universal Declaration of Human Rights- | Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms. |
31) Geneva Convention- | International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war. |
32) Nuremburg Trials- | Trials in which the Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes. |