Ch 18 vocab
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- Geneva convention
- A set of international standards of conduct for treating prisoners of war, established in 1929
- Manhattan project
- Secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb
- Kamikaze
- n World War II, a Japanese suicide plane
- Nisei
- A Japanese American whose parents were born in Japan
- victory garden
- A home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II
- Bracero
- A term used in 1942 to describe a Mexican farm laborer brought to the United States
- Battle of Okinawa
- 1945 World War II battle between the United States and Japan
- GI
- Term used for American soldiers in World War II, derived from the term "Government Issue"
- battle of the bulge
- World War II battle in which German forces launched a final counterattack in the west
- island-hopping
- A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others
- Bataan death march
- Brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942
- Anti-semitism
- Hostility or discrimination toward Jews
- Battle of the coral sea
- 1942 World War II battle between American and Japanese aircraft
- Warsaw ghetto
- An area of Warsaw sealed off by the Nazis to confine the Jewish population, forcing them into poor, unsanitary conditions
- Atlantic charter
- Agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims
- interned
- Confined
- D-day
- Code name for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
- Carpet bombing
- Method of aerial bombing in which large numbers of bombs are dropped over a wide area
- Battle of midway
- 1942 World War II battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
- War refugee board
- Federal agency created in 1944 to try to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis
- Liberty ship
- A type of large, sturdy merchant ship built in World War II
- Wannsee Conference
- 1942 conference in Germany concerning the plan to murder European Jews
- Battle of leyte gulf
- 1944 World War II naval battle between the United States and Japan
- Office of war mobilization
- Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II
- Battle of Iwo Jima
- 1945 World War II battle between the United States and Japan
- genocide
- Organized killing of an entire people
- Congress of racial equality
- Organization founded by pacifists in 1942 to promote racial equality through peaceful means
- Death camp
- In World War II, a German camp created solely for the purpose of mass murder
- Kristallnacht
- The name given to the night of violence on November 9, 1938, when Nazi storm troopers looted and destroyed Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues and arrested thousands of Jews in Germany and Austria
- Nuremberg trials
- Series of trials in 1945 conducted by an International Military Tribunal in which former Nazi leaders were charged with crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes
- Holocaust
- Nazi Germany's systematic attempt to murder all European Jews
- Selective Training and service act
- 1940 law requiring all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service
- barrio
- A Spanish-speaking neighborhood
- Battle of guadalcanal
- 1942-1943 World War II battle between the United States and Japan
- Concetration camp
- A place where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions