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Ch. 26 - WWII
Chapter 26 - World War II
Term | Definition |
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Benito Mussolini | totalitarian dictator of Fascist Italy |
Adolf Hitler | totalitarian dictator of Nazi Germany |
totalitarian | form of government in which a person or group of people has control over all aspects of life |
Neutrality Acts | series of laws in the US that banned the sale of weapons to nations at war. |
appeasement | giving in to demands in order to maintain peace |
blitzkrieg | lightning war |
Lend Lease Act | law that allowed the United States to lend, sell or lease weapons to nations considered vital to the defense of the United States |
rationing | placing limits on the amount of a type of good that a person could buy |
propaganda | information that is used to get people to do or think a certain thing. |
internment camp | place where many Japanese Americans were relocated to during WWII |
D Day | Name of the Allied invasion of Normandy |
genocide | the attempted elimination of a group of people |
Holocaust | the attempted elimination of the Jewish people during WWII that killed over 6 million Jewish people |
Manhattan Project | American program designed to build an atomic bomb |
Nuremberg War Trials | Held Nazi and Japanese leaders responsible for crimes against humanity |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki | cities where the United States dropped two atomic bombs marking the end of World War II. |