Name:_____________________________________________ Period:________ Due Date:___________
Chapter 24 Vocabulary
Terms and People: Complete the following vocabulary words (25 points)
1. _______________________________________________ U.S. Navy admiral who was the commander
of the navy in the Pacific during World War II
2. _______________________________________________ American general known as “Blood and
Guts” was an innovative tank commander
3. _______________________________________________ American general known as “Ike”
commanded the Allied invasion of North Africa and D-Day
4. _______________________________________________ African American squadron that escorted
bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II
5. _______________________________________________ giving up completely without any
concessions
6. _______________________________________________ tactic of dropping bombs on key political and
industrial targets
7. _______________________________________________ tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs
in order to inflict maximum damage
8. _______________________________________________ turning point of World War II in the Pacific
in which the Japanese advance was stopped
9. _______________________________________________ African American labor leader who
demanded an end to discriminatory practices in government-funded training, employment, and the
armed forced and threatened a march on Washington
10. _______________________________________________ Supreme Court case that upheld the
government’s wartime internment policy involving Japanese Americans
11. _______________________________________________ (OWI) government agency that encouraged
support of the war effort during World War II
12. _______________________________________________ World War II measure that assured fair
hiring practices in any job funded by the government
13. _______________________________________________ temporary imprisonment of members of a
specific group
14. _______________________________________________ government-controlled limits on the amount
of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime
15. _______________________________________________ plan that brought laborers from Mexico to
work on American farms
16. _______________________________________________ Japanese American men in an all-Nisei unit
that fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history
17. _______________________________________________ world’s most famous scientist who signed a
letter that alerted President Roosevelt about the need to proceed with atomic development
18. _______________________________________________ man who became President when FDR died
19. _______________________________________________ physicist who was responsible for the
scientific aspect of the atomic bomb project
20. _______________________________________________ Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed
planes into American ships during World War II
21. _______________________________________________ code name of the project that developed the
atomic bomb
22. _______________________________________________ World War II strategy that involved seizing
selected strategic Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others
23. ________________________________________________ June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the
beaches of Normandy, France
24. ________________________________________________ in December 1944, Hitler ordered a
counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and
demoralizing its troops
25. ________________________________________________ Nazi camp designed for the extermination
of prisoners
26. ________________________________________________ camps used by the Nazis to imprison
“undesirable” members of society
27. ________________________________________________ willful annihilation of a racial, political, or
cultural group’
28. ________________________________________________ name now used to describe the systematic
murder by the Nazis of Jews and others
29. ________________________________________________ U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to
save Eastern European Jews
30. ________________________________________________ laws enacted by Hitler that denied German
citizenship to Jews
31. ________________________________________________ “Night of Broken Glass” was an organized
attack on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938.
32. ________________________________________________ document issued by the United Nations to
promote basic human rights and freedoms
33. ________________________________________________ (UN) organization founded in 1945 to
promote peace
34. ________________________________________________ trials in which Nazi leaders were charged
with war crimes
35. ________________________________________________ 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt,
Churchill, and Stalin to discuss final strategy concerning Germany, Eastern Europe, and Asia
36. ________________________________________________ international agreement governing the
humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war
37. ________________________________________________ (GATT) international agreement first
signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers
38. ________________________________________________ powerful country that plays a dominant
economic, political, and military role in the world