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ohs ch 14
| word | discription |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | a theory of government in which a single party or leade3r controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people |
| anti-sematic | prejudiced |
| Spanish Civil War | a war within Spain in which fascists won |
| appeasement | a policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace |
| Anschluss | union between Germany and Austria |
| Munich Pact | the agreement reached at the conference between Great Britain and Germany |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allies | USA, Great Britain, USSR, and France |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | included a cash-and-carry provision |
| Tripartite Pact | the pact that joined the axis powers |
| Lend-Lease Act | the right for FDR to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article |
| Atlantic Charter | a document that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security |
| WAC | womens army corps |
| Bataan Death March | when soldiers were captured and were sent on a march and more than 7000 troops died |
| Battle of Coral Sea | a victorious win for America |
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| saturation bombing | for maximum damage |
| strategic bombing | destroy Germanys capacity to make war |
| Tuskegee Airmen | AA group of escorting planes |
| Battle of Midway | A battle between US and Japan in the Midway islands |
| Executive Order 8802 | assured fair hiring practices in any job funded with government money and established the Fair Employment Practices Comittee to enforce these requirements |
| bracero program | bringing laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonment of a specific group |
| Korematsu v. United States | The case of when Japanese tried to uphold their rights |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | became the most decorated unit in WWII |
| rationing | limiting food |
| OWI | office of war information |
| D-Day | When allie powers started to gain back control of France by coming up a beach |
| Battle of the Bulge | a counterattack in which the Germans took several key towns from the allies |
| island hopping | Going from on island to the next |
| kamikaze | courageous suicide pilot |
| Manhattan Project | a program to develope the atomic bomb |
| Holocaust | a period in which many Jews were killed and tortured |
| anti-Semitism | hate against Jews |
| Nuremberg Laws | denied German citizenship to Jews |
| Krestallnacht | night of broken glass |
| genocide | wiping out an entire race |
| concetration camp | small space with many people |
| death camp | area for killing large masses of people |
| War Refugee Board | saved thousands of Eastern European Jews |
| Yalta Conference | when the big three agreed that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would hod free elections |
| superpower | elite countries |
| GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
| United Nations | an organization that would succeed where the League of Nations had failed |
| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | The declaration upholds human rights |
| Geneva Convention | an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| Nuremberg Trials | when Allies prosecuted Nazis for war crimes |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. military base that the Japanese attacked |
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