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Pd 9 WWII Voc 2017
Pd 9's WWI Vocabulary from class presentations
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| The second atomic bomb site, not intended to have a bomb dropped on it | Nagasaki |
| A mass evacuation of allied soldiers from North France | Dunkirk |
| "Code name for making of the atomic bombs | The Manhattan Project |
| The element used to create the bomb that was dropped on Nasgasaki | Plutonium |
| The name of the plane that dropped the bomb on Nagasaki | Bockscar |
| Removing from a place of danger | Evacuate |
| To make something into law | Enact |
| Acceptance, shown by signing your name | Subscription |
| Generates a lot of money | Profitable |
| Purposely altered media used to sway someone's opinion | Propaganda |
| A membership of alike workers | Union |
| A binding promise to do or to not do something | Pledge |
| When someone or something is confined for a military reason | Internment |
| Causing harm to a person or thing | Violation |
| Singing something in a soft tone, also known for 1940's music | Crooner |
| A musician that is interested in jazz music | Moldy Fig |
| A German soldier who was given orders from Hitler | Nazi |
| The amount of supplies each person was given in a set time period | Rations |
| OPA | Office of Price Administration |
| "Gardens that families planted to help increase food during the war | Victory Gardens |
| Books containing stamps to buy specific rationed items | War Ration Books |
| Camps for Japanese Americans after the bombing of Pearl Harbor | Relocation Camps |
| Limiting the amount of a resource/food item during war time | Rationing |
| USO | United Service Organization |
| Provided entertainment to soldiers | USO |
| First city to be targeted by an atomic weapon | Hiroshima |
| Large amphibious assault against the Axis powers | D-Day |
| Name of the first atomic bomb | Little Boy |
| Transport ships used by the allies to move troops | Troop Barge |
| Codename for D-Day | Operation Overlord |
| A strategy used by the US to attack the Japanese in the Pacific | Island Hopping |
| Supreme commander of Allied forces during World War II in 1943 | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| November 16, 1942 the Allied invasion in French North Africa during World War II | Operation Torch |
| "December 16, 1944-January 16, 1945 because the Germans wanted to split the Allied forces and to stop the supplies coming to the Allies | Battle of the Bulge |
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