Chapter 35: America in World War II, 1941-1945
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Acclamation
| a general and unanimous action of approval or nomination by a large public body, without a vote.
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Bastion
| a fortified stronghold, often including earthworks or stoneworks, that guards against enemy attack.
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Beachhead
| the first position on a beach secured by an invading force and used to land further troops and supplies.
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Bracero
| a Mexican farm laborer temporarily brought in the United States.
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concentration camp
| a place of confinement for prisoners or others a government considers dangerous or undesirable.
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Deposed
| forcibly remove from office or position.
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Genocide
| the systematic extermination or killing of an entire people; the Holocaust or Final Solution during World War II.
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internment camps
| camps to which more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans living in the West were moved soon after the December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
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U-boat
| a German submarine (from the German Unterseeboot).
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Underground
| a secret or illegal movement organized in a country to resist or overthrow the government. |
