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14 and 15 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | - theory of governtment in which a single party or leader controls economic social live of its people |
| anti-semitic | prejudice against jewish people |
| appeasement | policy of granting concessions to keep peace |
| anschluss | union of germany and austria |
| munich pact | agreement between germany,italy,france,great britan,that sacrificed the sudetenland to perserve peace |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| axis powers | countries led by germany italy japan fought by allies |
| allies | countries led by britan france U.S soviet union fought axis powers |
| nuetrality act of 1939 | allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in u.s if they paid cash and carried on own ships |
| tripartite pact | created an alliance between germany italy and japan |
| lend-lease act | allowed roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital |
| atlantic charter | joint declaration by great britian and u.s during ww11: ensured national self determination and international system of general security |
| pearl harbor | american military base attack by the japanesse on dec 7 1941 |
| womens army corps | u.s army groups establish during ww11 so women could serve in non combat roles |
| battle of coral sea | ww11 battle took place between japanese and american aircraft carriers |
| bataan death march | forced march of american and filipino prisioners of war under brutal conditions by japanese and military |
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely with out any concessions |
| saturation bombing | tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage |
| strategeic bombing | dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| tuskegee airmen | a.a squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over europe |
| battle of midway | turing point of ww11 in the pacific in which japanese advance was stopped |
| executive order 8802 | ww11 measure assured fair hiring practice in any job funded by the government |
| bracero program | brought laborers from mexico to work on american farms |
| intement | temporary imprisonment of the members of a specific group |
| 442nd regimental combat team | FOUGHT IN ITALIAN COMPAIGN AND BECAME MOST DECORATED MILITARY unit in american history |
| office of war information | government agency that encouraged support of the war effort |
| d-day | june 6 1944 day allies landed on beached on normandy, france |
| battle of bulge | dec 1944 hitler ordered acounter attack on allied troops in belguim, cripples germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops |
| island hopping | invlved seizing selected japanese held island in the pacific while by passing others |
| kamikazes | japanese pilots who diliberately crashed planes into american ships |
| manhattan project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| holocaust | describe systematic murder of jews by nazis |
| rationing | government controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time |
| nuremberg laws | laws enacted by hitler that denied german citizenship to jews |
| kristallnacht | night of broken glass. organized attacks on jewish communities in germany nov 9 1938 |
| genocide | willful annihilation of racial political or cultural group |
| concentration camps | camps used by nazis to imprison undesirable memeber of society |
| death camps | nazi camps designed for the examination of prisoners |
| war refugee board | u.s government agency founded in 1944 to save eastern european jews |
| yalta conference | strategy meeting between roosevelt, churchhill stalin |
| superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic politcal and military role |
| GATT | international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| united nations | organixation in 1947 to promote peace |
| universal declaration | of human rights documents issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedom |
| geneva convention | international agreement governing the human treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners at awr |
| nuremberg trails | trails in which nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
| korematsu v. united states | supreme court upheld the government wartime interment policy |
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