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Chapter 15 WWII
Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. Unconditional surrender | Giving up completely without any concession |
| 2. Saturation bombing | Dropping bombs in order to inflict damage |
| 3. Strategic bombing | Dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| 4. Tuskegee airmen | African American fighter squardron |
| 5. Battle of midway | Turning point in the pacific war |
| 6. Executive order 8802 | Fair practices in government jobs |
| 7. Bracero program | Bringing Mexicans to work on American farms |
| 8. Internment | temporary imprisionment of members of a specific group |
| 9. Korematsu v. United States | Upheld government wartime internment policy |
| 10. 442nd regimental combat | Italian campaign that became famous |
| 11. Rationing | Giving someone certain amount |
| 12. OWI | Encouraged media support of the war effort |
| 13. D-day | Allies hit Germany |
| 14. Battle of the bulge | Counter attack to Germany |
| 15. Island hopping | Strategy to take Japanese islands |
| 16. Kamikaze | Suicide bombing |
| 17. Manhattan project | Project to employ thousands and create atomic bomb |
| 18. Holocaust | Nazis to attempt to kill Jews under their control |
| 19. Anti-semitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| 20. Nuremberg laws | Denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 21. Kristallnacht | A day of killing Jews and Jewish establishments |
| 22. Genocide | Mass murder |
| 23. Concentration camps | Members of special designated groups were confined |
| 24. Death camp | Prisoners were systematically exterminated |
| 25. War refugee board | Worked to save thousands of Eastern European Jews |
| 26. Yalta conference | Where Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania helped free vote |
| 27. Superpower | Confident strong nations that dominated the world |
| 28. GATT | Treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs |
| 29. United Nations | Organized on basis or corporations between the great powers |
| 30. Universal declaration of human rights | Created human rights for the world |
| 31. Geneva convention | International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| 32. Nuremberg trials | Allies prosecuted nazis for war crimes |