Unit 5: Chapter 18

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  1. selective service
    a system in which people are drafted into the military
    The Selective Training and Service Act required all males aged 21 to 36 to register for military service.
  2. mobilization
    the act of assembling and putting into readiness for war
    In May 1943, the President appointed James F. Byrnes, a longtime member of Congress and a close presidential advisor, to head the Office of War Mobilization.
  3. charter
    a document creating an institution and specifying its rights
    The declaration of principles became known as the Atlantic Charter.
  4. carpet bombing
    extensive targeting intended to devastate a large area
    After abandoning attempts to pinpoint targets, the RAF developed a technique called carpet bombing, in which planes scattered large numbers of bombs over a wide area.
  5. antisemitism
    the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
    By the 1880s, the term anti-Semitism was used to describe discrimination or hostility, often violent, directed at Jews.
  6. holocaust
    an act of mass destruction and loss of life
    No other persecution of Jews in modern history equals the extent and brutality of the Holocaust, Nazi Germany's systematic murder of European Jews.
  7. concentration camp
    a place where persecuted groups are forcibly confined
    The duties of the SS included guarding the concentration camps, or places where political prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions.
  8. ghetto
    the restricted quarter of European cities where Jews lived
    They sealed off the Warsaw ghetto with a wall topped with barbed wire and guarded by Germans.
  9. genocide
    systematic killing of a racial or cultural group
    Ultimately, the plan would lead to the construction of special camps in Poland where genocide, or the deliberate destruction of an entire ethnic or cultural group, was to be carried out against Europe's Jewish population.
  10. refugee
    an exile who flees for safety
    Finally, in January 1944, over the objection of the State Department, Roosevelt created the War Refugee Board (WRB) to try to help people threatened by the Nazis.
  11. kamikaze
    a fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots
    This was the first battle in which kamikazes, or suicide planes, were used.
  12. equality
    the quality of being the same in quantity, value, or status
    Another step was the founding of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Chicago in 1942.
  13. bracero
    a Mexican laborer working in the U.S. for a limited time
    In 1942, an agreement between the two nations provided for transportation, food, shelter, and medical care for thousands of braceros, Mexican farm laborers brought to work in the United States.
  14. barrio
    a Spanish-speaking quarter in a town or city
    Many lived in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods called barrios.
  15. intern
    deprive of freedom
    They would be interned, or confined, in camps in remote areas far from the coast.
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