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hunt- ch 14 &15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. anti-semitic | prejudice against jews |
| 2. spanish civil war | facists were fictorious. bloody conflict from 1936-1939 |
| 3. appeasement | granting concessions to potential enemy in hopoe that it will maintain peaceful |
| 4. anschluss | union between austria and germany |
| 5. munich pact | agreement made between germany italy britain and france in 1938 that sacrificed sudetenland to preserve peace |
| 6. blitzkrieg | sudden attack |
| 7. axis powers | germany italy japan and several other nations |
| 8. allies | britain france and eventually the US Soviet Union and China |
| 9. neutrality act of 1939 | cash and carry provision. other countries could buy goods from the US if they paid cash and carried the goods on their own ships |
| 10. lend-lease act | authorized roosevelt to sell, transfer title to, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of to any such gov any defense article whenever he thought it was necessary in the interest of the defense of the US |
| 11. tripartite pact | pact between germany italy and japan to become allies of each other |
| 12. atlantic charter | article that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security |
| 13. pearl harbor | US navy's main pacific base, bombed by japan |
| 14. WAC | women's army corps. provided clerical workers truck drivers instructors and lab technicians for the US army |
| 15. bataan death march | during ww2 the forced march of american and filipino POW's under brutal conditions by the japanese |
| 16. battle of coral sea | ww2 battle theat took place between american and japanese aircraft carriers |
| 17. unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| 18. saturation bombing | inflicted maximun damage |
| 19. strategic bombing | destroyed germanys capacity to make war |
| 20. tuskegee airmen | african american fighter squadron. escorted bombers and protected them from enemy fighter pilots |
| 21. battle of midway | turning point of the war in the pacific |
| 22. executive order 8802 | assured fair hiring practices in any job funded iwith gov. moneyand established the FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES COMMITTEE to enforce these requirements |
| 23. bracero program | brought laborers from mexico to work on US farms |
| 24. internment | temp imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| 25. korematsu v. US | supreme court unhelp the gov's wartime internment policy |
| 26. 442nd regimental combat team | fought in the italian campaign and ebcame the most decorated militry unit in US history |
| 27. rationing | form of economic control |
| 28. OWI | office of war info. worked with media to support the war effort |
| 29. D Day | allies hit germany in force |
| 30. battle of the bulge | germany caught allies by suprise in a counter attack. almost succeeded. |
| 31. island hopping | capturing some japanese held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward japan |
| 32. kamikaze | pilots who deliberately crashed their planes into american ships |
| 33. manhattan project | cost billions of dollars but emplayed tens of thousands of people |
| 34. holocaust | nazi attampt to kills all jews under their controls |
| 35. anti semitism | prejudice towards jews |
| 36. nuremburg laws | denied german citizenship to jews. named after the city that served as the center for nazi spiritualism |
| 37. kristallnacht | night of broken glass. most serious act of violence towards jews. |
| 38. genocide | annihilation of a certain group of people. |
| 39. concentration camps | where members of specially designated groups were confined |
| 40. death camp | where groups of people were systematically exterminated |
| 41. war refugee board | worked with red cross to save thousands of eastern european jews |
| 42. yalta conference | the big 3 agreed that poland bulgaria and romania would hold free elections |
| 43. superpower | US and Soviet Union. emerged confident and strong from the war. |
| 44. GATT | general agreement on tariff and trade. 1948 treaty designed to expand world trade by reducing tariffs. |
| 45. united nations | organizatoin that would take the place of the league of nations |
| 46. universal declaration of human rights | issued by the UN.condemned slavery and torture. upholds freedom of speech and religion and affirms that everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family |
| 47. geneva convention | an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and POW's |
| 48. nuremburg trials | allies prosecuted nazis for war crimes |
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