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PD 1 WWII Prjct Voc
Pd 1's Vocabulary Terms based upon their projects.
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Allowing each person to have only a fixed amount of (a particular commodity) | Rationing |
| May 8th, the day marking the Aliies victory in Europe | V-E Day |
| The art or process of deciphering coded messages without being told the key to the code | Cryptanalysis |
| " To decode a message with or without previous knowledge of its key | Decrypt |
| To discover the meaning of anything obscure or difficult to trace or understand | Decipher |
| An official document entitling the holder to a ration of food, clothes, or other goods | Ration Book |
| Capitulating (surrendering) with no entitlements or guarantees | Unconditional Surrender |
| Vegetable gardens that were planted anywhere possible during WWII to help with rationing | Victory Gardens |
| A Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb, Little Boy, in 1945 | Enola Gay |
| Amounts of food or other goods that were bought or eaten were reduced so that supplies would not run low for America | Rationing |
| An ironic name given to the atomic bomb that was dropped by a plane on Hiroshima, Japan | Little Boy |
| A military term to stop and pause | Halt |
| Divergence out from a center point | Radiate |
| The first city in Japan that was destroyed by the atom bomb | Hiroshima |
| Number of deaths totaled after the war. | Casualties |
| Second largest island in Japan that was taken over by USA | Okinawa |
| Nickname of the atom bomb | Little Boy |
| "US armed forces trained for land, sea, and air combat | Marines |
| The equal distribution of goods and/or supplies in order to conserve goods or when goods and/or supplies are low | Rationing |
| The day that WWII was over in Europe | V-E Day |
| A book that gave people stamps to buy good, and this book limited what people could buy | Ration Book |
| "These led to canning foods and was a major part of America’s produce after the war | Victory Gardens |
| This causes a standstill where action or war are put on hold (Germany did this for three days during Dunkirk) | Halt |
| Books the size of a postcard mailed to the army providing entertainment | Pocketbooks |
| The name of war bonds before the attack on Pearl Harbor | Defense Bonds |
| Bonds used to finance military operations during the war | War Bonds |
| The imprisonment of many people | Internment |
| A massive slaughter on a population, specifically the Jews | Holocaust |
| Another name for a pocketbook printed by the council of books in wartime | ASE |
| A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target | Kamikaze |
| System of defense and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defense against an anticipated Allied invasion | Atlantic Wall |
| Resistance expressed in action or argument | Opposition |
| The action of getting rid of something or ending something | Termination |
| Victories with no concessions accepted from your enemies | Unconditional Surrender |
| The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state | Reparations |
| "A US operation to take down Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto | Operation Vengeance |
| The head leader of the Japanese Navy | Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto |
| "Actor in The Great Dictator and many other silent and sound films | Charlie Chaplin |
| Attacks from US Servicemen against youth minorities in LA. | Zoot Suit Riots |
| A baggy suit many youth minorities wore in the 1940s | Zoot Suit |
| "Hispanic neighborhood next to the US military base in LA | Barrio |
| The Japanese tortured the captive Americans and Filipinos by doing the following: exposure to the blazing sun, lack of food, lack of water, bayoneted and shot without warning, and beheaded | Inhumane Japanese Treatment |
| An Allied invasion of Axis-led northern Africa to clear the Mediterranean Sea and gain cooperation from the French Army | Operation Torch |
| "65 mile march unto which Japanese soldiers forced captive American and Filipino soldiers to suffer inhumane treatment | Bataan Death March |
| The dead and dying were left on the side of the road, the strong were not permitted to help the weaker, and the soldiers would sometimes force the marchers to sit in the sun without water for hours | Inhumane Japanese Treatment |
| First offensive campaign since the attack on Pearl Harbour; America wanted to protect Australia from Japan and Japan wanted to cut off Australia from America | Guadalcanal |
| The root of Japan’s brutality lay in the Japanese attitude that a soldier should die before surrender | Japanese Treatment |
| islands off of the coast of Australia | Solomon Islands |
| A warrior's surrender meant the forfeiture of all rights to treatment as a human being | Japanese Treatment |
| Guadalcanal, one of these islands, serves as a naval, army, and air base | Solomon Islands |
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