Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Chapter 15 Vocab US
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| saturation bombing | inflict maximum damage with massive amount of bombing |
| strategic bombing | destroy Germany's capacity to make war |
| Tuskegee Airmen | escorting bombers and protecting them from enemy fighter pilots |
| Battle of Midway | turning point of the war in the Pacific, ending seemingly unstoppable Japanese advace |
| Executive Order 8802 | measure assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce these requirements |
| bracero program | bringing laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| Korematsu v. United States | Supreme Court upheld the governments wartime internment poilicy |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history |
| rationing | Americans were issued coupon books that limited the amount of certain goods, such as butter and tires, that they could buy. |
| OWI | (Office of War Information) worked closely with the media to encourage support of the war effort |
| D-Day | Allies hit Germany in force |
| Battle of the Bulge | counterattack of Germany almost succeded |
| island hopping | capturing some Japanese-held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward Japan |
| kamikaze | pilots deliberately crashed their planes into American ships |
| Manhattan Project | cost several billion dollars and employed tens of thousands of people |
| Holocaust | the Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control |
| anti-Semitism | Hitler blamed Jews for all the ills of Germany, from communism to inflation to abstract painting |
| Nuremberg Laws | denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and segregated Jews at every level of society. |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass", After a Jewish refugee killed a German diplomat in Paris, Nazi officials ordered attacks on Jews in Germany |
| genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| concentration camp | where members of specially designated groups were confined |
| death camp | prisoners were systematically exterminated |
| War Refugee Board | worked with the Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews, especially in Romania and Hungary, |
| Yalta Conference | the Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would would hold free elections |
| superpower | countries that dominated the postwar world |
| GATT | (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) a 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs |
| United Nations | organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations had failed |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | condemns slavery and torture, upholds freedom of speech and religion, and affirms that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family |
| Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the human treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| Nuremberg Trials | Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes |
Created by:
Lugano
Popular U.S. History sets