Chapter 15 Vocab- 39 words
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| 1. Dwight Eisenhower | Energetic American officer. General "Ike" commanded the allied invasion of North Africa.
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| 2. George S. Patton | An innovative tank commander put in charge by Eisenhower to command the North African troops.
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| 3. Unconditional Surrender | Giving up completely without any concessions.
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| 4. Saturation Bombing | Tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage.
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| 5. Strategic Bombing | Tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets.
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| 6. Tuskegee Airmen | African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during the WWII.
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| 7. Chester Nimitz | Commander of the US Navy in the Pacific.
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| 8. Battle of Midway | Turning point of WWll in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped.
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| 9. A. Philip Randolph | Labor leader asserted that African Americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship.
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| 10. Executive Order 8802 | WWII measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government.
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| 11. Bracero Program | Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.
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| 12. Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.
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| 13. Korematsu V. United States | (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 | Fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history.
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| 15. Rationing | 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) | Government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WWII.
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| 17. D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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| 18. Battle of the Bulge | 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 | New president.
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| 20. Island Hopping | WWll strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.
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| 21. Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WWll.
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| 22. Albert Einstein | World's most famous scientist, signed a letter that alerted Roosevelt about the need to proceed with atomic development.
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| 23. Manhattan Project | Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb.
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| 24. J. Robert Oppenheimer | 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 | Name now used to describe the systematic murder of jews by the Nazis.
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| 26. Anti-Semitism | Prejudice and discrimination against the Jewish people.
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| 27. Nuremberg laws | Laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews.
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| 28. Kristullnacht | "Night of Broken Glass," organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on Nov. 9, 1938.
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| 29. Genocide | Willful annihilation of racial, political, or cultural group.
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| 30. Concentration Camp | Camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society.
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| 31. Death Camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners.
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| 32. War Refugee Board | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews.
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| 33. Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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| 34. Superpower | 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) | International agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers.
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| 36. United Nations (UN) | Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
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| 37. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedom.
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| 38. Geneva Convention | International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
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| 39. Nuremberg Trials | Trails in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes.
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