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ch.14-15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic social and cultural lives of its people |
| anti- Semitic | hating jews |
| Spanish civil war | nationalist forces lead by general fracisco franko rebelled against the democratic republican government of spain |
| Anchluss | union of germany and austria in 1933 |
| appeasment | policy of granting concessions in order to keep peace |
| Munich Pact | agreement made between germany italy great britain and france in 1938 that sacrificed the sudetenland to preserve peace. |
| blitzkrieg | also known as the lightening war, that emphasized the use of speed and fire power to penetrate deep into the enemies terretory |
| allies | group of countries lead by britain france and the us, and the soviet union that fought axis powers in ww2 |
| Axis powers | group of countries lead by germany, italy and japan that fought the allies in ww2 |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the us if they paid cash and carried the merchandice on their own ships |
| Tripartite Pact | agreement that created an alliance between germany italy and japan during ww2. |
| Lend-Lease Act | act passed in 1941 that allowed president roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whos defense he had considered vital to the safty of the united states |
| Atlantic Charter | a joint declaration made in august 1941 by great Britain and the us during ww2 that endorsed national self determination and the international system of general security. |
| Pearl Harbor | american military based attacked by the japanese on december 7 1941 |
| (WAC)Womens Army Core | us army group established during ww2 so that women could serve in non-combat roles. |
| Bataan Death March | during ww2 the forced march of american and Philippeno prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military |
| Battle or Coral Sea | ww2 battle that took place between Japanese and american aircraft carriers |
| Unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions |
| saturation bombing | tactic of dropping massive amount of bombs in order to inflict maximum amount of damage |
| strategic bombing | tactic of dropping bombs on key polictical and industrial targets |
| Tuskegee Airmen | african american squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over europe in ww2 |
| Battle of midway | turning point of ww2 in the pacific in which the japanese advance was stopped. |
| Executive order 8802 | ww2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government |
| Brancero program | plan that brought laborers from mexico to work on american farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| Koremastsu v. United states | the supreme court upheld the governments wartime interment policy. |
| 442nd Regimental | |
| rationing | government-controlled limits on the amounts of certain goods that the civilians could by during war time |
| OWI Office of war information | government agency that encouraged support for the war effort in ww2 |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 the day allies landed on the beaches of normandy france |
| Battle of the Bulge | december 1944 hitler ordered a counter attack on allied troops in belgium but it crippled germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops |
| island hopping | ww2 strategy that involved seixing selected japanses held islands in the pacific while by passing others |
| Kamikaze | japanses pilots who deliberately crashed planes into american ships in ww2. |
| Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| Holocaust | name now used to describe the systematic murder of jews by the nazis |
| anti-semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| Nuremberg Laws | law enacted by hitler that denied citizenship to jews |
| Kristallnacht | night of the broken glass organized attacks on jewish communities in germany on november 9, 1938 |
| genocide | willfull annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group. |
| concentration camp | camps used by the nazis to imprison undesirable memvber of society. |
| death camp | nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners |
| War Refugee Board | us government agency founded in 1944 to sae eastern European jews |
| Yalta Conference | 1945 stragety meeting between Roosevelt churchhill and stalin |
| superpower | Powerful country that plays dominate economic political and military role in the world |
| GATT | internation agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| united nations | organization founded in 1945 to promote peace |
| Universal declaration of human rights | document issued by the united nations to promte basic human rights and freedoms |
| Geneva convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soliders and prisoners of war |
| Nuremberg trials | trials in which nazi leader were charged with war crimes |
| Combat Team |
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