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Chapter 17 Vocab
Dwight Eisenhower
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Commander of US forces in WWII
George Patton
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Commander of US forces in North Africa
Tuskegee Airmen
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African American fighter squadron that played
a key role in the saturation bombing of
Germany.
In more than 1500 missions, the Tuskegee
Airmen didn’t lose a single bomber
D-Day/ Invasion of Normandy
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Operation Overlord
June 6, 1944
Massive allied invasion of France
Battle of the Bulge
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Surprise German counterattack against allied
forces in Belgium
Last ditch attempt by Germany to win the war
V-E Day
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May 7 1945, the day that Germany
surrendered.
Stands for Victory in Europe Day
War Production Board
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Created to oversee the conversion of
peacetime industry to war industry.
Had the authority to set priorities and
production goals and to control the
distribution of raw materials and supplies.
Office of War Information
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Created to raise morale in the US during the
war and to convince people to help with the
war effort.
Propaganda!!
A. Philip Randolph
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African American leader who was part of the
“double V” campaign. (victory against fascism
abroad and discrimination at home).
Executive Order 8802
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Assured fair hiring in any job funded with
government money.
Doolittle Raid
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Bombing raid on Tokyo
Considered revenge for Pearl Harbor
Battle of Midway
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Turning point of the war in the Pacific
This battle put an end to the Japanese
advance in the Pacific.
Island Hopping
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The process of capturing some Japaneseheld islands, and ignoring others in a steady
path towards the Japanese mainland.
Kamikaze
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Pilots who would deliberately crash their
planes into American ships, killing
themselves, but also inflicting severe
damage.
Korematsu v US
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Fred Korematsu protested that his relocation
into a Japanese internment camp was
unconstitutional.
The case went to the Supreme Court, where
it was ruled that the relocation was
constitutional because it was based, not on
race, but on “military urgency.”
Manhattan Project
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Code name for the American program to build
an atomic bomb.
Hiroshima/ Nagasaki
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The two cities where American forces
dropped atomic bombs in 1945.
These remain the only two atomic bomb
targets in history.
Holocaust
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The systematic murder by the Nazis of
European Jews and other “undesirables”
Nuremburg Laws
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Laws enacted by Hitler that denied German
citizenship to Jews.
Genocide
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Annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural
group.
Yalta
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1945 Strategy meeting between Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stalin.
United Nations
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Organization founded in 1954 to promote
peace.
Nuremburg Trials
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Trials in which Nazi leaders were tried with
war crimes.