Chapter 15- World War II

Unconditonal Surrender

Giving up completly without any concessions.

Saturation bombing

Tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage.

Strategic bombing

Tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets.

Battle of Midway

Turning point of World War 2 in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped.

Bracero Program

Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.

Internment

Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.

D-Day

June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.

Battle Of The Bulge

In Decmber 1944, Hitler orderd a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops.

Harry S. Truman

U.S. president at the end of WWII; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb

Island hopping

World War 2 strategy that involved seizing selected japanses- held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.

Kamikaze

Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during World War 2.

Manhattan Project

Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb.

Holocaust

Name now used to decribe the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazi.

Anit-Semitism

Prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people.

Genocide

Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultureal group.

Concentration Camp

Camps used by the Nazis to imprisom "undesirable" members of society.

Yalta Conference

1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.

Superpower

Powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world.

United Nations (UN)

Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.

Rationing

Government controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime.

Korematsu v. United States

court case in which the Supreme Court allowed the government to continue its policy of Japanese-American internment

black market

illegal buying and selling of outlawed or restricted goods

Adolf Hitler

leader of Germany during WWII

Benito Mussolini

leader of Italy during WWII

Franklin D. Roosevelt

leader of the United States at the beginning of WWII

Hideki Tojo

prime minister of Japan during WWII

Joseph Stalin

leader of the Soviet Union during WWII

WInston Churchill

prime minister of the United Kingdom during most of WWII

Auschwitz

largest and most infamous Nazi death camp

Hiroshima

Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945