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Ch. 15
Chapter 15
| 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 maximum damage |
| 3. strategies bombing | tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| 4. Battle of Midway | turning point of World War II in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped |
| 5. Executive Order 8802 | World War II 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 member of a specific group |
| 8. Korematsu v. United States | 1944, the Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime interment policy |
| 9. 442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in the American history |
| 10. rationing | government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime |
| 11. Office of War Information (OWI) | government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during World War II |
| 12. D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| 13. 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 |
| 14. island hopping | World War II strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| 15. kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during World War II |
| 16. Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| 17. Holocaust | name now used to describe the systemic murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| 18. anti-Semitic | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| 19. Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler the denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 20. Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass" organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938 |
| 21. genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| 22. concentration camp | camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society |
| 23. death camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners |
| 24. War Refugee Board | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews |
| 25. Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
| 26. superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world |
| 27. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| 28. United Nations (UN) | organization founded in 1945 to promote peace |
| 29. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms |
| 30. Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoner of war |
| 31. Nuremberg Trials | trails in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
| 32. Tuskegee Airmen | African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II |
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