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Chapter 15
World War II
1. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during World War II
2. Battle of Midway
• Turning point of the war in the Pacific between Japan and US.
• Japan was now on the defensive
3. D-Day Invasion
• June 6, 1941, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France beginning the liberation of France.
4. 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 and would led to the eventual defeat of Nazi Germany.
5. Island-hopping
• World War II strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others.
6. Tuskegee Airman
• African-American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II
7. Internment Camps
• Camps in the US that held people of Japanese descent under armed guard in isolated areas.
8. Korematsu v. United States
• Supreme Court ruled that the internment of Japanese Americans during WW II did not violate the Constitution.
9. Executive Order 8802
• World War II measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government
• It was a victory in the fight for Civil Rights.
10. Double V Campaign
• Civil rights call for victory against both fascism overseas and racial prejudice at home that was led by A. Philip Randolph.
11. Manhattan Project
• The code-named secret government research program established to produce the atomic bomb.
12. Robert Oppenheimer
• Scientist largely responsible for the Manhattan Project that produce the first atomic bomb.
13. Harry S. Truman
• Vice-President who assumed the presidency after the death of FDR
• President responsible for the dropping of the 1st Atomic bomb.
14. Allied Conferences
• Yalta Conference- meeting of the Big Three in which all agreed to hold free elections in Poland.
• Potsdam Conference-meeting of the Big Three in which all agreed to divide Germany, hold free elections in Poland, and USSR agreed to help defeat Japan.
15. United Nations
• Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
16. GI Bill of Rights
• Eased the return of World War II veterans by providing education and employment aid
17. Nuremberg Laws
• Laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews
18. Genocide
• Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group.
19. Holocaust
• German-engineered wartime extermination of Jews and other peoples that Germans considered inferior.
20. Concentration Camps
• Camps used by the Nazi to imprison “undesirable” members of society