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Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1)Unconditional surrender | giving up completely without ant 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 Airman | African American Squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during WW2 |
| 5)Battle of midway | turning point in WW2 in the pacific in which the Japanese advance was stopped |
| 6)Executive Order 8802 | WW2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the gov't |
| 7)bracero program | bringing labors from Mexico to work on American farms |
| 8)internment | temporary imprisonment or members of a specific group |
| 9)Korematsu v. U.S. | the supreme Court upheld the gov't wartime internment policy |
| 10)442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history |
| 11)Rationing | gov't controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that the people could buy during wartime |
| 12)Office of war info(OWI) | gov't agency that encouraged support of the war time effort during WW2 |
| 13)D-Day | June 6,1944 the day allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| 14)Battle of the Bulge | in dec.1944 Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium |
| 15)island hopping | WW2 strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held island in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| 16)kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed in to American ships during WW2 |
| 17)Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| 18)Holocaust | Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under his control |
| 19)Anti-Semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| 20)Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship of Jews |
| 21)Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on Nov 9,1938 |
| 22)genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political or cultural group |
| 23)Concentration Camps | members of specially designed groups were confined |
| 24)death camps | where prisoners were systematically exterminated |
| 25)War Refugee Board | worked with the red cross to save thousands of eastern European Jews , especially in Romania and Hungary |
| 26)Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt , Churchill and Stalin |
| 27)superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political and military role in the world |
| 28)General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | a 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs |
| 29)United Nations | organization founded in 1945 to promote peace |
| 30)Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document issued by the UN too promote basic human rights and freedom |
| 31)Geneva Convention | an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| 32)Nuremberg trials | in which the allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes |
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