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Chapter 15
Chapter 15 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dwight Eisenhower | Commanded the invasion in North Africa. |
| George S. Patton, Jr. | Innovative tank commander. |
| Unconditional Surrender | Giving up completely without any concessions. |
| Saturation Bombing | Bombing that inflicted maximum damage. |
| Strategic Bombing | Bombing to destroy Germany's capacity to make war. |
| Tuskegee Airmen | Escorted bombers and protected them from enemy fighter pilots. |
| Chester Nimitz | Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific. |
| Battle of Midway | Turning point of the war in the Pacific. |
| A. Philip Randolph | Asserted that African Americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship. |
| Executive Order 8802 | Assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce the requirements. |
| Bracero Program | Brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms. |
| Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group. |
| Korematsu v. US | Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy. |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | Fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history. |
| Rationing | Economic control. |
| OWI | Worked with the media to encourage support of the war effort. |
| D-Day | The Allies hit Germany in force. |
| Battle of the Bulge | The Allies' counterattack. |
| Harry S. Truman | President of the US. |
| Island Hopping | Capturing some Japanese-held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward Japan. |
| Kamikaze | Pilots deliberately crashing their planes into American ships. |
| Albert Einstein | World's most famous scientist. |
| Manhattan Project | Program to work with atomic development. |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | One of the two primary leaders of the project. |
| Holocaust | Nazi attempt to kill all Jews under their control. |
| Anti-Semitism | Hatred towards Jews. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and segregated Jews at every level of society. |
| Kristallnacht | Most serious attack against the Jews. |
| Genocide | Annihilation of any racial, political, or cultural group. |
| Concentration Camp | Where members of specifically designated groups were confined. |
| Death Camp | Where prisoners were systematically exterminated. |
| War Refuge Board | Worked with the Red Cross to save thousands of East European Jews. |
| Yalta Conference | Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have free elections. |
| Superpower | Those who dominated the postwar world. |
| GATT | Treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs. |
| United Nations | An organization that would succeed where the League of Nations 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 humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes. |
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Bailey Charlton
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