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Chapter 15 Vocab

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1.Unconditional Surrender   giving up completely without any concessions  
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2.Saturation Bombing   tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict massive damage  
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3.Strategic Bombing   tacic of dropping bombs on key political industrial targets  
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4.Battle of Midway   turning point of WW2 in the Pacific, where Japanese advance was STOPPED  
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5.Executive Order 8802   WW2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government  
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6.Bracero Program   plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms  
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7.Internment   temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group  
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8.Korematsu v. US   Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy  
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9.442nd Regimental Combat Team   WW2 unti made up of Japanes-American volunteers  
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10.rationing   government control limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time  
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11.OWI   government agency that encouraged support of the woar effort during WW2  
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12.D-Day   June 6, 1944 , the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France  
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13.Battle Of the Bulge   December 1944 Hitler ordered a counter attack on Allied troops in Beligium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing troops  
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14.Island Hopping   WW@ strategy that involved sizing selected Japanese held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others  
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15.Kamikaze   Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships in WW2  
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16.Manhattan Project   code name of the project that developed the Atomic Bomb  
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17.Holocaust   name now used to describe the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis  
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18.Anti-Semitism   prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people  
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19.Nuremberg Laws   laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews  
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20.Kristallnacht   "night of the broken glass," organized attack on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938  
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21.Genocide   willful and annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group  
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22.Concentration Camp   camps used by the Nazis to imprison "udesirable" members of society  
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23.Death Camp   Nazicamp designed for the extermination of prisoners  
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24.War Refugee Board   US government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews  
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25.Tuskegee Airmen   African American fighter squadron  
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26.Yalta Conference   the Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections  
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27.Superpower   United States and the Soviet Union (Allies)  
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28.GATT   1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs  
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29.United Nations   an organization that many hoped would succeed where the League of Nations failed  
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30.Universal Declaration of Human Rights   condemned slavery and torture, upholds freedom of speech and religion, affirms that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well being of himself and his family"  
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31.Geneva Convention   international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war  
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32.Nuremberg Trials   Allies prosecuted Nazis for crimes  
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