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US History 14 & 15
US History 14&15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. totalitarianism | a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people |
| 2. anti-Semitic | prejudiced against Jewish people |
| 3. Spanish Civil War | a bloody conflict that raged from 1936 until 1939 |
| 4. appeasement | the policy that France and Britain persued against aggressive nations during the 1930s |
| 5. Anschluss | Union between Hitler and Austria |
| 6. Munich Pact | the agreement reached at the conference, had preserved "peace for our time" |
| 7. blitzkrieg | sudden attack |
| 8. Axis Powers | eventually included Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other nations |
| 9. Allies | included Britain, France, Soviet Union, USA, and China |
| 10. Neutrality Act of 1939 | included a cash-and-carry provision |
| 11. Tripartite Pact | Germany, Italy, and Japan signed the pact and became allies |
| 12. Lend-Lease Act | the act authorized Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to, exchanged, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article |
| 13. Atlantic Charter | a document that endorsed national self-determination and international system of "general security" |
| 14. Pearl Harbor | the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base |
| 15. Women's Army Corps (WAC) | in 1943 to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the US Army |
| 16. Bataan Death March | more than 7,000 American and Filipino troops died during the grueling journey |
| 17. Battle of Coral Sea | also helped kindle hope for the American military in the Pacific |
| 18. unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| 19. saturation bombing | bomb to inflict maximum damage |
| 20. strategic bombing | was to destroy Germany's capacity to make war |
| 21. Tuskegee Airmen | an African American fighter squadron played a key role in the campaign |
| 22. Battle of Midway | was the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| 23. executive order 8802 | was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941, to prohibit racial discrimination in the national defense industry. |
| 24. Bracero program | a series of laws and diplomatic agreements |
| 25. internment | is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. |
| 26. Korematsu v. United States | (1944), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship. |
| 27. 442nd Regimental Combat Team | They were Nisei - American-born sons of Japanese immigrants |
| 28. rationing | is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services. |
| 29. United States Office of War Information (OWI) | U.S. government agency created during World War II to consolidate government information services |
| 30. D-Day | June 6, 1944, 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. |
| 31. Battle of the Bulge | was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II |
| 32. Island Hopping | refers to the means of crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly across the ocean to the destination. |
| 33. Kamikaze | were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan |
| 34. Manhattan Project | a research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during World War II |
| 35. Holocaust | mass murder of approximately six million Jews |
| 36. Anti-semitism | hatred of Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage |
| 37. Nuremberg Laws | of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party |
| 38. Kristallnacht | (1938) was a series of coordinated attacks against Jews throughout Nazi Germany |
| 39. Genocide | violent crimes committed against groups with the intent to destroy the existence of the group |
| 40. Concentration camp | Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers |
| 41. Death camp | were camps built to systematically kill millions of people by gassing and extreme work under starvation conditions |
| 42. War Refugee Board | tasked with the immediate rescue and relief of the Jews of Europe and other victims of enemy persecution |
| 43. Yalta Conference | was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union |
| 44. Superpower | state with a dominant position in the international system which has the ability to influence events and its own interests and project power on a worldwide scale to protect those interests |
| 45. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | was a multilateral agreement regulating international trade |
| 46. United Nations | is the world's largest, foremost, and most prominent international organization |
| 47. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de Chaillot, Paris |
| 48. Geneva Convention | comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war |
| 49. Nuremberg Trials | were a series of military tribunals, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany |
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