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Ch 25
World War II: Americans at War
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History
11th Grade
11/08/2011

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Selective Training and Service Act
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A 1940 law requiring all males agedd 21 to 36 to register for military service
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Office of War Mobilization
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Federal agency formed to coordinate issues related to war production during World War II
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victory garden
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A home vegetable garden created to boost food production during World War II
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Atlantic Charter
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An agreement signed by President Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchhillin 1941 outlining the two nations' war aims
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carpet bombing
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Method of aerial bombing in which large numbers of bombs are dropped over a wide area
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D-Day
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Code name for the Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944
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Holocaust
Definition
Nazi Germany's systematic attempt to murder all European Jews
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concentration camp
Definition
a place where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions
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Bataan Death March
Definition
A brutal march of American and Filipino prisoners by Japanese soldiers in 1942
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Battle of Midway
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a 1942 World war II military battle between the United States and Japan, a turning point in the war in the Pacific
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kamikaze
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In World War II, a Japanese suicide plane
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Manhattan Project
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A secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb
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bracero
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A term used in 1942 to describe a Mexican farm laborer brought to the United States
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Nisei
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A Japanese-American whose parents were born in Japan
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death camp
Definition
In World War II, a German camp created solely for the purpose of mass murder
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