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Chapter 14/15 Vocab
Mrs. Hunt Ch. 14/15 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.) Totalitarism | |
| 2.) Anti-Semitism | discrimination against Jewish people |
| 3.) Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces that rebelled against the Democratic Republican government of Spain |
| 4.) Appeasement | granting concessions in order to keep the peace |
| 5.) Anschluss | union of Germany and Austria in 1933 |
| 6.) Munich Pact | agreement made to sacrifice the Sudentenland to preserve peace |
| 7.) Blitz Krieg | "lightning war", used speed and firepower to penetrate the enemy's territory |
| 8.) Axis Powers | group of countries consisting of Germany, Italy, and Japan who fought the Allied Powers |
| 9.) Allied Powers | group of countries that fought the Axis Powers in WWII, consisting of G.B, France, U.S, S.U |
| 10.) Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the U.S if they paid cash |
| 11.) Tripartite Pact | |
| 12.) Lend-Lease Act | act passed in 1941 that allowed Roosevelt to sell or len war supplies to allies of the U.S |
| 13.) Atlantic Charter | declaration that endorsed national self-determination and a system of security |
| 14.) Pearl Harbor | American military base attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941 |
| 15.) WAC | |
| 16.) Bataan Death March | during WWII, march of American/Filipino prisoners under bad conditions by Japan |
| 17.) Battle of Coral Sea | WWII battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers |
| 18.) Unconditional Surrender | |
| 19.) Saturation Bombing | tactic of dropping massive amounts of bombs in order to inflict maximum damage |
| 20.) Strategic Bombing | tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets |
| 21.) Tuskagee Airmen | |
| 22.) Battle of Midway | turning point of WWII in the Pacific, in which the Japanese advancement was ceized |
| 23.) Executive Order 8802 | WWII measure that assured hiring practices in any job funded by the government |
| 24.) Bracero Program | plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms |
| 25.) Internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group |
| 26.) Korematsu V United States | |
| 27.) 442 Regimental Combat Team | |
| 28.) Rationing | government controlled |
| 29.) OWI | government agency that supported the war effort during WWII |
| 30.) D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day the Allied powers landed on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| 31.) Battle of the Bulge | December 1944, Hitler ordered a counterattack on Allied troops in Belgium |
| 32.) Island Hopping | WWII strategy that involved seizing select islands held by Japan in the Pacific |
| 33.) Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who intentionally crashed planes into American ships in WWII |
| 34.) Manhattan Project | code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb |
| 35.) Holocaust | name now used to describe the systematic murder of the Jews by the nazis |
| 36.) Nuremberg Laws | law enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews |
| 37.) Kristallnacht | organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938 |
| 38.) Genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| 39.) Concentration Camp | camps used by the Nazis to imprison members of society |
| 40.) Death Camp | nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners |
| 41.) War Refugee Board | |
| 42.) Yalta Conference | |
| 43.) Superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military roles |
| 44.) GATT | international agreement first signed in 1947, aimed at lowering trade barriers |
| 45.) United Nations | |
| 46.) Universal Declaration of Human Rights | |
| 47.) Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers & prisoners |
| 48.) Nuremberg Trials | trials in which nazi leaders were charged with war crimes |
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