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Ch 18 History
study notes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bataan | General Douglas MacArthur said "I shall return" near here |
| Battle of the Atlantic | the victory here was due to the use of sonar |
| Battle of the Bulge | The Germans' final counterattack |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | The Americans stopped the Japanese advance on Australia. |
| Carlos E. Castaneda | He tried to improve working conditions for Mexican Americans in Texas. |
| Thomas A. Dewey | he was defeated by Roosevelt in the 1944 election by a wide margin. |
| Enrico Fermi and Lesli Groves | they associated with the Manhattan Project. |
| Genocide | This is the deliberate killing of an entire people |
| Hiroshima | The first atomic bomb exploded here |
| Holocaust | this was a time where the European Jews were slaughter |
| Internment: | this was the forced relocation of Japanese Americans |
| Island-hopping: | this was a fighting policy used in the pacific by American Forces. It meant that the American army would only attack Japanese held islands |
| Douglas MacArthur | he was given command of all US Army units in the pacific |
| Bernard Montgomery | he led British forces to victory in North Africa |
| Chester Nimitz | he was a commander of the US Pacific Fleet. |