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History
Chapter 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Liberty ship | basic cargo ship during WWII. |
| Selective Service and Training Act | Plan for the first peacetime draft in U.S. History |
| disfranchised | denied the right to vote |
| Douglas MacArthur | U.S. Commander in the Philippines |
| Doolittle Raid | Plan to bomb Tokyo |
| George Patton | U.S. Commander in Northern Africa |
| Rosie the Riveter | Symbol of the campaign to encourage women to join the war effort. |
| Bracero Program | Brought workers from Mexico to the U.S. to work in the American Southwest. |
| Great Migration | Movement of thousands of African-Americans from the South to the North and West for industrial jobs |
| rationing | limiting the availability of many products to make sure enough is available for the military |
| D-Day | Codename for the Battle of Normandy, June 6, 1944 |
| kamikaze | Pilots who would deliberately crash their planes into American ships, killing themselves but inflicting severe damage |
| VE Day | Victory in Europe--May 8, 1945 |
| VJ Day | Victory in Japan--August 15, 1945 |
| Harry S. Truman | President of the U.S. at the end of WWII. Made the decision to drop the Atomic Bomb |
| Manhattan Project | American program to build the atomic bomb. |
| Hiroshima | Site of the dropping of the first atomic bomb |
| Nagasaki | Site of the dropping of the second atomic bomb |
| Nuremberg | Site of the military tribunal trying Nazis for war crimes |
| napalm | kind of jellied gasoline used in bombs designed not only to explode, but start fires |