Chapter 15 Vocab- 39 words
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| 1. Dwight Eisenhower | show 🗑
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| 2. George S. Patton | show 🗑
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| show | Giving up completely without any concessions.
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| 4. Saturation Bombing | show 🗑
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| 5. Strategic Bombing | show 🗑
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| 6. Tuskegee Airmen | show 🗑
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| show | Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific.
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| show | Turning point of WWll in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped.
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| show | Labor leader asserted that African Americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship.
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| 10. Executive Order 8802 | show 🗑
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| 11. Bracero Program | show 🗑
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| show | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.
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| show | (Japanese Americans went to court to seek their rights) In 1944 the Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy.
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| 14. 42nd Regimental Combat Team | show 🗑
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| show | Government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime.
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| 16. Office of War Information (OWI) | show 🗑
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| show | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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| show | In December 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops.
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| 19. Harry S. Truman | show 🗑
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| show | WWll strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.
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| 21. Kamikaze | show 🗑
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| show | World's most famous scientist, signed a letter that alerted Roosevelt about the need to proceed with atomic development.
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| show | Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb.
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| show | One of the two Primary leaders of the Manhattan Project. Ran the scientific aspect of the project from a construction site in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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| 25. Holocaust | show 🗑
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| show | Prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish people.
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| 27. Nuremberg laws | show 🗑
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| 28. Kristullnacht | show 🗑
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| 29. Genocide | show 🗑
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| show | Camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society.
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| show | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners.
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| show | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews.
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| show | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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| show | Powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world.
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| 35. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | show 🗑
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| show | Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
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| 37. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | show 🗑
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| 38. Geneva Convention | show 🗑
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| 39. Nuremberg Trials | show 🗑
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