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Chapter 13 Vocab
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| Vocabulary Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nazi Party | the National Socialist German Workers' Party; came to power under Adolf Hitler in the 1930s |
| Il Duce | Benito Mussolini of Italy took the name ______ when he was leader of Italy meaning "the Leader" |
| der Fuhrer | Adolf Hitler led the facist Nazi Party and was leader of Germany and took the name _________ meaning "the Leader" |
| Axis Power | Germany, Italy, and their allies during World War II |
| Appeasement | the granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace |
| Nonaggression Pact | Germany and the Soviet Union agreed not to declare war on each other |
| Blitzkrieg | meaning lighting war; it stressed speed and surprise in the use of tanks, troops, and planes |
| December 7, 1941 | "a date which will live in infamy" the day that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor |
| Lend-Lease Act | a 1941 law that allowed the United States to ship arms and supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers |
| June 6, 1944 | the day the Allies invaded France during World War II which is know as D-Day |
| Yalta Conference | in 1945, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin discussed plans for the end of World War II and the future of Europe |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day; on May 8, 1945 the war in Europe is over and is known as ______ |
| The Holocaust | the systematic killing by Germany during World War II of about six million Jews as well as millions from other ethinc groups |
| Island Hopping | a World War II strategy in which the Allies invaded islands that the Japanese weakly defended in order to stage further attacks |
| Mahattan Project | the top-secret program set up in 1942 to build an atomic bomb |
| Rosie the Riveter | an image of a strong woman hard at work at an arms factory during World War II |
| Japanese-American Internment | February 1942, Roosevelt signed an order that allowed for the removal of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from the Pacific Coast |
| Rationing | to distribute a fixed amount of a certain item |
| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization to which most nations in the world belong, founded in 1945 to promote world peace, security, and economic development |
| Marshall Plan | approved in 1948, the United States gave more than $13 billion to help the nations of Europe after World War II |
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