Chapter 24, sec. 2 ASSIGNMENT 1: 1. ) a) Atlantic Charter – when Roosevelt and Churchill pledged a peace b) GI – “government issue” c) Battle of Stalingrad – turning point of the war in the east d) carpet bombing – large numbers of bombs are scattered over a wide area e) D-day – the largest landing by sea in history f) battle of the bulge – counterattack in Belgium and Luxembourg in December 1944 g) Yalta conference – plan for the post war world 2. ) The battle of stalingrad, and the battle of the bulge helped turn the tide of war in favor of the allies. ASSIGNMENT 2: Chapter 24, sec. 3 1.
) a) bataan death march – when American and filipino soldiers marched 6-12 days and many died b) battle of the coral sea – first naval combat carried out entirely by aircraft c) battle of midway – fought entirely by air d) battle of guadalcanal – gave marines first taste of jungle warfare e) kamikaze – suicide planes f) battle of iwo jima – one of the bloodiest battles of the war g) battle of okinawa – equally bloody as iwo jima h) manhattan project – when the U. S. launched a top secret project to make the a-bomb 2. ) Iwo Jima and Okinawa were the two battles that changed the course of the war in the pacific. 5.
) We could have threatened Japan with using the bomb instead of actually dropping it, and if they did not comply with our demands then we would drop the bomb. ASSIGNMENT 3: Chapter 24, sec. 4 1. ) a) holocaust – Nazi Germany’s systematic murder of the Jews b) anti semitism – hostility toward Jews c) concentration camp – prisoners of war are confined to these d) kristallnacht – night of the broken glass e) wann see conference – where the idea of concentration camps was established f) death camp – unlike other camps, these existed only for murder g) war refugee board – board to help people threatened with murder by the Nazis 2. ) The holocaust was when Nazis committed the crime of genocide against the Jews 5. ) The Nazis implemented their plan for genocide by planning it out and doing exactly what they had planned.
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