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chapter 14 vocab
Term | Definition |
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1.totalitarianism | a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator |
2.anti-semitic | hating Jews |
3.Spanish civil war | civil war in Spain in which Franco succeeded in overthrowing the republican government |
4.appeasement | the action or process of appeasing |
5.anschluss | was the occupation and annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. |
6.Munich pact | was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers |
7.Blitzrieg | an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
8.axis powers | were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. |
9.allies | were Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and China. |
10.Neutratlity Act of 1939 | were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II |
11.Tripartite Pact | which established the Axis Powers of World War II |
12.lend-lease act | was a program under which the United States supplied Great Britain |
13.Atlantic Chater | was a pivotal policy statement issued in August 1941 that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. |
14.Pearl Harbor | a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu; location of a United States naval base that was attacked by the Japanese on 7 Dec 1941 |
15.WAC | The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army |
16.Bataan Death March | was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army |
17.Battle of Coral sea | was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II between the Imperial Japanese Navy and Allied naval and air forces from the United States and Australia |