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Chapter 21
Social Studies
Question | Answer |
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What are soldiers mounted on horseback? | Cavalry |
The killing of an entire race | Genocide |
A strong government that would have total control over people's lives | Totalitarianism |
Giving in, in order to avoid war | Appeasement |
An estimated 11 million people were killed in this | Holocaust |
Not taking sides in a conflict | Neutral |
After the war, the Allies in Germany where Nazi leaders and others could be tried for committing such "crimes against humanity" set up the | Nuremberg Trails |
They believed in an extreme form of nationalism | Fascist |
Germany developed a tactic that means lightning war because they were so fast and devastating | Blitzkrieg |
On June 6, 1944 the largest seaborne invasion in History began the code name for this was called | D-Day |
Discrimination against and the persecution of Jewish people is called | Anti-semitism |
Joing together of Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWI | Tripartite Alliance |
A policy of staying out of the affairs of other nations | Isolationism |
Adolf Hitler signed a with the Soviet Union agreeing not to fight on another | Non-agression pact |
The Jewish people were sent to prison camps known as where many people were killed | Concentration Camps |
Under the the U.S. would lend or lease raw material and weapons to Allied Nations | Lend-lease Act |
The was the worldwide economic downturn that lasted from 1929 until WWII | Great Depression |