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Chap. XIV & XV
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1 totalitarianism | a theory of gov. in which a single party or Leader controls the economic social and cultural lives of its people |
| 2 anti-Semitic | Prejudice against Jewish people |
| 3 Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican government of Spain |
| 4 appeasement | Granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace |
| 5 Anschluss | Union of Germany and Austria in 1933 |
| 6 Munich Pact | agreement made between germany italy GB and France in 1938 that sacrificed the sudetenland to preserve peace |
| 7 blitzkrieg | Sudden attack with many aircrafts |
| 8 Axis Power | Germany, Italy, Japan, and several other nations in an alliance |
| 9 Allies | Britain, France, and eventually many other nations, including the Soviet Union, the United States, and China |
| 10 Neutrality Act of 1939 | Act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships |
| 11 Tripartite Act | Agreement that created an alliance between germany itlay and japan durin WWII |
| 12lend-lease act | Act passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense is considered vital to the safety of the U.S. |
| 13 atlantic charter | A joint declaration made in August 1941 by Great Britain and the United States, during World War II, that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security |
| 14 Pearl Harbor | Hawaii, the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base |
| 15 WAC | U.S. Army Group established during World War II so that women could serve in noncombat roles |
| 16 bataan death march | During World War II, the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military |
| 17 battle of coral sea | World War II battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers |
| 18. Unconditional Surrender | Giving up completly with out any concessions |
| 19. Saturation Bombing | Tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum amount of damage |
| 20. Tuskegee Airmen | African American squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over Europe during World War II |
| 21. Battle of Midway | Turning point in World War II in the Pacific, in which Japanese advance was stopped |
| 22. Executive Order of 8802 | World War II measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government |
| 23. Bracero Program | Plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| 24. Internment | Temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| 25. Korematsu V United States | Case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II regardless of citizenship |
| 26. 442nd Regimental Combat Team | All-Nisei fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history |
| 27. Rationing | Government controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime |
| 28. Office of War Information (OWI) | Worked closely with the media to encourage support of the war effort |
| 29. Battle of the Bulge | December 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium, but it crippled Germany by using its reserves and demoralizing its troops |
| 30. Island Hopping | World War II strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
| 31. Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during World War II |
| 32. Manhattan Project | Code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| 33. Holocaust | The mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime during the period 1941–45 |
| 34. Anti-Semitism | Prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage |
| 35. Nuremberg | Laws enacted by Hitler to denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 36. Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass," organized attacks in Jewish communities on November 9, 1938 |
| 37. Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people, esp. those of a particular ethnic group or nation |
| 38. Concentration Camp | A camp where civilians, enemy aliens, political prisoners, and sometimes prisoners of war are detained and confined, typically under harsh conditions |
| 39. Death Camp | Nazi camps designed for extermination of prisoners |
| 40. War Refugees Board | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews |
| 41. Yalta Conference | Meeting of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and General Secretary Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe's post-war reorganization |
| 42. Superpower | An extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations |
| 43. General Agreement On Tariffs and Trade (GATT) | International agreement first signed in 1947, aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| 44. United Nations | The nations that signed the joint declaration in Washington, D.C., January 2, 1942, pledging to employ full resources against the Axis powers, not to make a separate peace, etc |
| 45. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Document promoted by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms |
| 46. Geneva Convention | International agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| 47. Nuremberg Trials | Trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
| 48. Strategic Bombing | Tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| 49. D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
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