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Chapter 16 Vocab AHH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| totalitarian | characteristics of a political system in which the government exercises complete control over its citizens lives |
| neutrality acts | a series of laws enacted in 1935 and 1936 to prevents u.s. arms sales and loans to nations at war |
| appeasement | the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace |
| nonaggression pact | an agreement in which two nations promise not to go to war with each other |
| holocaust | the systematic murder or genocide of jews and other groups in europe by the nazis before and during ww2 |
| kristallnacht | night of glass |
| ghettos | city, neighborhood in which i=a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live |
| concentration camps | a prison operated by nazis germany in which jews and other groups considered to be enemies of adolf hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were murdered |
| axis power | the group of nations including germany italy and japan that opposed the allies in ww2 |
| lend lease act | a law passed in 1941 that allowed the us to stop arms and other supplies without immediate payment to nations fighting the axis powers |
| allies | ww2 the group of nations including great britain and the soviet union and the united states that opposed the axis powers |
| atlantic charter | 1941 declaration of principles in which the us and great briatin set forth their goals in opposing the axis powers |
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