Friday, May 9, 2014

Ch. 12 Sec. 5 sample notes

chapter 12 section 5 
hedgerows: dirt walls, several feet of thick, covered in shrubbery.
Battle of the Bulge: last major nazi offensive to destroy allies. Hitler wanted to cut off Allies supplies coming in through Belgium, but it didn't work and the Germans had to surrender. The allies had won.

V-E Day: Victory in Europe
Hiroshima: august 6, 1945, the us dropped the worlds first atomic bomb on the town of Hiroshima in Japan. The explosion killed a lot of the city, but thousands more died from radiation.
Manhattan Project: the code name for the American project to build an atomic bomb.it was headed by general groves, and once they created a bomb they tested it. 

Nuremberg Trials: the trails that were heald to bring nazi war criminals to justice. These were 13 trials that we're carried out charged nazis with crimes against peace and humanity.
UN: United Nations was a international political organization that was formed by Roosevelt to prevent another war. The UN would have a general assembly, where all member nations would get one vote.