7GNMH: Chapter 6 Lesson 2 Vocabulary

7GNMH:

Chapter 6 Lesson 2

a Mexican laborer allowed into the US for a limited time as a seasonal agricultural worker.

bacero

noun, farm worker

a Mexican laborer allowed into the US for a limited time as a seasonal agricultural worker.

bacero

noun, farm worker

a person who is not a member of a particular profession or group, as viewed by a member of that group.

​civilian

noun, regular citizen

A civilian is a person who is not enlisted in the military (Gibbs, 2017, pg. 200).

​civilian

noun, prison

the state of being confined as a prisoner, especially for political or military reasons.

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​internment

New MExico had two internment camps, in Santa Fe and Lordsburg...more than 4,500 Japanese were surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards in New Mexico (Gibbs, 2017, pg 198).

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​internment

(born April 22, 1904, New York, New York, U.S.—died February 18, 1967, Princeton, New Jersey), American theoretical physicist and science administrator, noted as director of the Los Alamos Laboratory (1943–45) during development of the atomic bomb and as director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1947–66).

​J.Robert Oppenheimer

Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was chosen to direct Project Y (The Los Alamos Laboratory, a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II (Gibbs, 2017, pg 197)..

​J.Robert Oppenheimer

Robert Goddard, (born October 5, 1882, Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S.—died August 10, 1945, Baltimore, Maryland), American professor and inventor generally acknowledged to be the father of modern rocket propulsion

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​Robert Goddard

Goddard's research led to 214 patents for designing, powering, and guiding rockets (Roberts, et al., 2010 pg 261).

​Robert Goddard

The Battle of Bataan January 7 – April 9, 1942) was fought by the United States and the Philippine Commonwealth against Japan during World War II. The battle represented the most intense phase of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II.

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​Bataan Death March

​Those who survived the Bataan Death March and Japanese prisoner-of-war camps were finally freed at the end of World War II (Gibbs, 2017, pg195).

​Bataan Death March

the famous Navajo (or Diné) code talkers who used their traditional language to transmit secret Allied messages in the Pacific theater of combat during World War II.

Code Talkers

More than 400 Navajo volunteers joined a special group of American marines called the Navajo Code Talkers (Gibbs, 2017, pg 196).

Code Talkers

The Manhattan Project is one of the most transformative events of the 20th century. It ushered in the nuclear age with the development of the world's first atomic bombs.

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Manhattan Project

The top secret mission to design and build an atomic bomb was called the Manhattan Project (Gibbs, 2017, pg196).

Manhattan Project

The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941.

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Pearl Harbor

Without warning, the skies over PEarl Harbor, Hawaii, darkened as wave after wave of Japanese fighter planes dropped bombs on US ships and planes (Gibbs, 2017, p194)

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Pearl Harbor

On July 16, 1945, the Project Trinity test the world’s first atomic bomb "Gadget" was detonated in the north-central portion of the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) missile range, the bomb was placed atop a 100-foot steel tower that was designated Zero.

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Project Trinity

The missle range includes the Trinity Site, where the first atomic bomb was tested during World War 2 (Gibbs, 2017, pg 32).

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Project Trinity

was instrumental in winning the case Trujillo v. Garley in 1948; before the case, New Mexico, had a ruling that "Indians not taxed" were not legally allowed to vote.

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​Miguel Trujillo

The Permian Basin is also a major source of potassium salts (potash), which are mined from bedded deposits of sylvite and langbeinite in the Salado Formation of Permian age.

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​Permian Basin

One of the most influential Mexican American civil rights organizations to flourish in the post-war period was Alianza Hispano-Americana (Alianza). Founded in Tucson, Arizona, in 1894, Alianza became the largest mutualista in the Southwest.

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Alianza

noun, soluble salt

includes various mined and manufactured salts that contain potassium in water-soluble form

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potash

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In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt made the withdrawal permanent; the land, and thus Blue Lake, were now a national forest. In 1970 (Dec 15) : President Nixon signs H.R. 471 into law. After 64 years of dispossession, the Blue Lake area is returned to Taos Pueblo.

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Blue Lake

Born: September 21, 1926, Falls City, TX

Died: January 19, 2015, El Paso, TXan activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners.

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​Reies Tijerina

​uranium is a chemical element with symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. Highly enriched uranium (HEU) is used in naval propulsion reactors, nuclear weapons and in some research reactors.

uranium

This native New Mexican, a Navajo, made the initial discovery of uranium in the San Juan Basin, the most important uranium-producing area in the United States.

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​Paddy Martinez

Manuel Luján, Jr., was born on a small farm near the Indian pueblo of San Ildefonso on May 12, 1928. Manuel Luján, Jr., served 10 terms in the U.S. House, making him the second-longest-serving Representative in New Mexico’s history and the longest-serving Hispanic Representative in New Mexico to date.

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Manuel Lujan

In 1692 and 1693, following the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which drove the Spanish out of northern New Mexico, de Vargas led two entradas that reestablished Spanish rule in Santa Fe. The colonists pledged to make it an annual event, and this date is cited as the historical beginning of the Santa Fe Fiesta.

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Santa Fe Fiesta