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Chapter1415 1.2.3.4
Chapter 14 & 15 Vocab
Number | Word | Definiation | Stuff |
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1 | Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican government of Spain. | AustinH16 |
2 | Appeasement | Policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace. | austino11 |
3 | Anschluss | Union of Germany and Austria in 1933. | 2nd Block |
4 | Munich Pact | Agreement made between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudetenland to preserve peace. | 4-2-13 |
5 | Blitzkrieg | "Lightning War" that emphasized the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory. | |
6 | Allies | Group of countries led by Britain, France, the U.S., and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis Powers in World War II. | |
7 | Neutrality Act of 1939 | Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the U.S. if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships. | |
8 | Tripartite Pact | Agreement that created an alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII. | |
9 | Lend-Lease 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 U.S. | |
10 | Atlantic Charter | A joint declaration made in august 1941 by Great Britain and the U.S., during WWII, that endorse national self-determination and an international system of general security. | |
11 | Pearl Harbor | American military base attacked by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941. | |
12 | WAC | U.S. Army group est. during WWI so that women could serve in non combat roles. | |
13 | Bataan Death March | During WWII, the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military. | |
14 | Battle of Coral Sea | WWII battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers. | |
15 | Unconditional Surrender | Giving up completely without any concessions. | |
16 | Saturation Bombing | Tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage. | |
17 | Strategic Bombing | Tactic of bombing bombs on key political and industrial targets. | |
18 | Tuskegee Airmen | Black squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during WWII. | |
19 | Battle of Midway | Turning point of WWII in the Pacific, in Which the Japanese advance was stopped. | |
20 | Executive Order 8802 | WWII measure that assured fair hiring practiced in any job funded by the government. | |
21 | Bracero Program | Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms. | |
22 | Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group. | |
23 | Korematsu v. U.S. | The Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime internment policy. | |
24 | 442nd Regimental Combat Team | Fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American History. | |
25 | Rationing | Government controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during war time. | |
26 | OWI | Government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WWII. | |
27 | D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France. | |
28 | Battle of the Bulge | In Dec. 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops. | |
29 | Island Hopping | WWII strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others. | |
30 | Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WWII. | |
31 | Manhattan Project | Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb. | |
32 | Holocaust | Name now used to describe the systematic murder of Jews by Nazis. | |
33 | Anti-Semitism | Prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people. | |
34 | Nuremberg Laws | Laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews. | |
35 | Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass," organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on Nov. 9, 1938. | |
36 | Genocide | Willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group. | |
37 | Concentration Camp | Camps used by the Nazis to imprison "undesirable" members of society. | |
38 | Death Camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners. | |
39 | War Refugee Board | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews. | |
40 | Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. | |
41 | Superpower | Powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world. | |
42 | GATT | International agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers. | |
43 | United Nations | Organization founded in 1945 to promote peace. | |
44 | Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms. | |
45 | Geneva Convention | International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war. | |
46 | Nuremberg Trails | Trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes. | |
47 | Anti-Semitic | Prejudice against Jews. | |
48 | Totalitarianism | A theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people. | |
49 | Axis Powers | Group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the allies in WWII. |