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ch 14 and 15 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a single party controls the economic , social, and cultural lives of its people. | totalitarianism |
| prejudice and discrimination against Jews | antisemitism |
| franciscos rebellion against the demo republic | Spanish Civil War |
| granting concessions in order to keep the peace | appeasement |
| union of germany and austria | anschluss |
| sacrificed the sudentenland to preserve peace (agreement) | munich pact |
| lightning war | blitzkrieg |
| germany, italy and japan that fought the allies in ww2 | axis powers |
| britian, france, us, and soviet union that fought the axis powers | allies |
| allowed nation at war to buy goods and arms in the U.S. if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships | neutrality act 1939 |
| an alliance between germany, italy, and japan | tripartite pact |
| allowed roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the U.S. | lend-lease act 1941 |
| a joint declaration made by great britian and the U.S. that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security | atlantic charter |
| american military base attacked by the japanese | pearl harbor |
| the march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal condition by the Japanese military | Bataan death march |
| took place between japanese and american aircraft carriers | battle of coral sea |
| provided clerical workers, truck drivers, and lab technitians for the U.S. army | womens army corps |
| giving up completlety without and concessions | uncondiditnal surrender |
| dropping massive bombs to inflict max damage | saturation bombing |
| dropping bombs an specific targets | strategic bombing |
| escorted bombers in the air over Europe | Tuskegee airmen |
| the Japanese advance was stopped in the pacific | battle of midway |
| assured fair hiring practices | executive order 8802 |
| brought laborers from mexico to work on american farms | brancero program |
| temporary imprisonment | internment |
| Japanese American Volunteers | 442 regimental combat |
| limit on the amount of goods civilians could buy during wartime | rationing |
| encouraged support of the war | owi |
| June 6 1944 the day allies landed on the beaches of France | d-day |
| crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops | battle of bulge |
| seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the pacific | island hopping |
| Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships | kamikaze |
| atomic bomb code name | Manhattan project |
| the systematic murder of Jews | holocaust |
| prejudice and discrimination against Jews | antisemitism |
| denied German citizen ship to Jews | Nuremberg laws |
| organized attacks on jewish communities. night of the broken glass. | kristallnacht |
| annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group | genocide |
| imprisoned underirable mambers of society | concentration camp |
| camp designed for the extermination of prisoners | death camp |
| agency to save eastern european jews | war refugee board |
| strategy meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin | Yalta conference |
| powerful country that plays a dominant economic. political, and military role. | superpower |
| aimed to lower trade barriers | GATT |
| organization to promote peace | united nations |
| promoted basic human rights and freedoms | universal declaration of human rights |
| the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war | Geneva convention |
| Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes | Nuremberg trials |
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