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WWII : Americans@War
World War II :Americans at War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Selective training & service act | 1940 law requiring all males aged 21-36 to register for military service |
| Concentration Camp | Place where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions |
| Kristallnacht | Name given to night of violence on Nov. 9, 1938, when nazi storm troopers looted and destroyed Jewish homes, buisnesses, and synagogues and arrested thousands of Jews in Germany and Austria |
| Warsaw Ghetto | Area in Warsaw sealed off by nazis to confine Jewish population, forcing into poor, unsanitary conditions |
| Wannsee Conferance | 1942 conferance in Germany concerning plan to murder European Jews |
| Genocide | Organized killing of entire group of people |
| Death Camp | In World War II, A German camp created solely for purpose of mass murder |
| War Refuge Board (WRB) | Federal agency created in 1944 to try to help people inreatened with murder by the nazi |
| Numbering trials | Series of trials in1945 conducted by an International military Tribunal in which former nazi leaders were charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes |
| Holocaust | Nazi Germany's systemic attempt to murder all European Jews |
| GI | American soldiers in World War II, derived from the term "Government Issue" |
| Office of war and mobilization | Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II |
| Liberty Ship | A type of large, sturdy merchant ship built in World War II |
| Victory garden | Home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II |
| Atlantic Charter | Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining two nations' war aims |
| Carpet Bombing | Ariel bombing method in which large numbers of bombs are dropped in a wide area |
| D-Day | Code name for the allied invasion of France on June 6,1944 |
| Battle of the Bulge | World War II battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the West |
| Anit-Semitism | Hostility or discrimination towards jews |
| Bataan Death March | Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942 |
| Geneva Convention | Set of International standards of conduct for treating prisoners of war, established in 1929 |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | 1942 World War II battle between United States and Japanese aircraft |
| Battle of Midway | 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, turning point in war in the Pacific |
| Battle of Guadalcanal | 1942-1943 World War II battle between United States and Japan |
| Island-Hopping | Military stagedy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held island and bypassing others |
| Battle of Leyte Gulf | 1944 World War II naval battle between United States and Japan |
| Kamikaze | World War II, a Japanese suicide plane |
| Battle of Iwo Jima | 1945 World War II battle between United States and Japan |
| Battle of Okinawa | 1945 battle between United States and Japan |
| Manhattan Project | Secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb |
| Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) | Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peacful means |
| Bracero | Term used in 1942 to describe Mexican farm labor brought to the United States |
| Barrio | Spanish-Speaking neighborhood |
| Interned | Confined |
| Nisei | Japanese American whose parents were born in Japan |
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