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US History CH15&16
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people | totalitarianism |
| prejudiced against Jewish people | anti-Semitic |
| Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican government of Spain | Spanish Civil War |
| union of Germany and Austria in 1933 | Anschluss |
| agreement made between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France inn1938 tat sacrificed the Sudetenland to preserve peace | Munich Pact |
| sudden attack | blitzkrieg |
| included Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other nations | Axis Powers |
| included Britain, France, and eventually many other nations,including the Soviet Union, the United States, and China | Allies |
| a document that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of "general security" | Atlantic Charter |
| policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace | appeasement |
| act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships | Neutrality Act of 1939 |
| agreement that created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII | Tripatite Act |
| act passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the US | Lend-Lease Act |
| the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific bas that Japan attacked | Pearl Harbor |
| provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the US Army | Women's Army Corps (WAC) |
| during WWII, the forced march of AMerican and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military | Bataan Death March |
| WWII battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers | Battle of Coral Sea |
| giving up completely without any concessions | unconditional surrender |
| tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage | saturation bombing |
| tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets | strategic bombing |
| African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during WWII | Tuskegee Airmen |
| turning point of WWII in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advance was stopped | Battle of Midway |
| assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Committee to enforce these requirements | Executive Order 8802 |
| bringing labor from Mexico to work on American farms | bracero program |
| temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group | internment |
| 1994 case where the Supreme Court upheld the government's watime internment policy | Korematsu v. United States |
| fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in merican history | 442nd Regimental Combat Team |
| government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime | rationing |
| tried to spotlight common needs, minimize racial and economic divisions, and downplay problems of poverty and crime | Office of War Information (OWI) |
| the day that the Allies hit Germay in force (June 6, 1944) | D-Day |
| in December 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops | Battle of the Bulge |
| WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others | island hopping |
| pilots that deliberately crashed their planes into American ships | kamikaze |
| code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| the Nazis attempt to kill all Jews under their control | Holocaust |
| denied German citizenship to Jews, banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews, and segregated Jews at every level of society | Nuremberg Laws |
| most serious attack on jews on November 9, 1938, also known as "Night of the Broken Glas" | Kristallnacht |
| willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group | genocide |
| where members of specially designated groups were confined. camps were designed to turn them into "useful members" of the Third Reich | concentration camps |
| where prisoners were systematically exterminated | death camps |
| worked with the Red Cross to save thousands of Eastern European Jews, especially in Romania and Hungary | War Refugee Board |
| prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people | anti-Semitism |
| the Big Three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hold free elections | Yalta Conference |
| known as The Axis Powers because they dominated the postwar world | superpowers |
| treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tarriffs | General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade (GATT) |
| and organization that, many hoped,would succeed where the League of Nations had failed | United Nations (UN) |
| an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war | Geneva Convention |
| trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes | Nuremberg Trials |
| document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms | Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
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