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Chapter 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dwight Eisenhower | commander of the Allied invasion of North Africa |
| George S.Patton,Jr | Was an innovated tank commander. Eisenhower put American forces in North Africa under his command |
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| saturation bombing | tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage |
| strategic bombing | tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| Tuskegee Airmen | A.A squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe in WWII |
| Chester Nimitz | commander of the US Navy in the Pacific who knew of the Japanese plans. He sent his only available aircraft carriers to Midway |
| Battle of Miday | turing point in WWIIin the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped |
| A.Philip Randolph | asserted that A.A would no longer accpet 2nd-class citizenship.He was the head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.It organized in secret because the Pullman Corporation refused to deal with labor unions |
| Executive Order 8802 | WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices funded by the government |
| bracero program | plan that brought Mexican laborers to work on American farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| Korematsu v. United States | Japanese Americans went to court to seek their rights.The Supreme Court upheld its wartime internment policy. |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | all-Nisei, fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history. It helped counter the nption that Japanese Americans were not loyal citizens |
| rationing | governemtn controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime |
| OWI | Office of War Information-governemtn agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WWII |
| D-Day | June 6,1944 the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| Battle of the Bulge | December 1944,Hitler ordered a counterattck on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using +up rserves and demoralizing its troops |
| Harry S. Truman | new president in 1945 after FDR's death |
| island hopping | WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberatly crashed planes into American shipd during WWII |
| Albert Einstein | the world's most famous scientist who warned the US about the need to proceed with atomic development |
| Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | physicistpart of the Manhattan Project. He ran the scientific adpect of the project from the construction site in NM. "Now I am become Death, destroyer of the Worlds." |
| Holocaust | name now used to describe the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| anti-Semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass" organized attcks on Jewsih communities in Germany November 9, 1938 |
| genocide | willful anihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| concentration camp | camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society |
| death camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners |
| War Refugee Board | US gov. agency founded to save Eastern European Jews |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin |
| superpower | powerful country that plays a domnant economic,political, and military role in the world |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade-international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| United Nations | organization founded un 1945 to promote peace |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document issued by the uN to promote basic human rights and freedoms |
| Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| Nuremberg Trails | trails in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
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