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Chapter 15 Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.Unconditional Surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| 2.Saturation Bombing | tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict massive damage |
| 3.Strategic Bombing | tacic of dropping bombs on key political industrial targets |
| 4.Battle of Midway | turning point of WW2 in the Pacific, where Japanese advance was STOPPED |
| 5.Executive Order 8802 | WW2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government |
| 6.Bracero Program | plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| 7.Internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| 8.Korematsu v. US | Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy |
| 9.442nd Regimental Combat Team | WW2 unti made up of Japanes-American volunteers |
| 10.rationing | government control limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time |
| 11.OWI | government agency that encouraged support of the woar effort during WW2 |
| 12.D-Day | June 6, 1944 , the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| 13.Battle Of the Bulge | December 1944 Hitler ordered a counter attack on Allied troops in Beligium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing troops |
| 14.Island Hopping | WW@ strategy that involved sizing selected Japanese held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| 15.Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships in WW2 |
| 16.Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the Atomic Bomb |
| 17.Holocaust | name now used to describe the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| 18.Anti-Semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| 19.Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 20.Kristallnacht | "night of the broken glass," organized attack on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938 |
| 21.Genocide | willful and annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| 22.Concentration Camp | camps used by the Nazis to imprison "udesirable" members of society |
| 23.Death Camp | Nazicamp designed for the extermination of prisoners |
| 24.War Refugee Board | US government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews |
| 25.Tuskegee Airmen | African American fighter squadron |
| 26.Yalta Conference | the Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections |
| 27.Superpower | United States and the Soviet Union (Allies) |
| 28.GATT | 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs |
| 29.United Nations | an organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations failed |
| 30.Universal Declaration of Human Rights | condemned slavery and torture, upholds freedom of speech and religion, affirms that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family" |
| 31.Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| 32.Nuremberg Trials | Allies prosecuted Nazis for crimes |
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