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History II
CHAPTER 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | theory of gov. on which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people |
| Joseph Stalin | dictator and head of the Communist Party in Russia |
| Benito Mussolini | founder of the Fascist Part and Italian dictator |
| Adolf Hitler | leader of the Nazi Party in Germany who seized power and attempted world domination |
| Anti-Semitic | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people |
| Spanish Civil War | nationalist forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Rep. gov. of Spain |
| appeasement | policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace |
| Anschluss | union in which Hitler forced Austria to become part of Germany's territory |
| Munich Pact | agreement in which Britain and France attempted to preserve peace by allowing Hitler to take more territory |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan, and other nations that fought together during WWII |
| Allies | Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the U.S, China, and other nations that fought against the Axis Powers during WWII |
| Winston Churchhill | British prime minister during WWII |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | Amer. law that allowed nations at war to buy U.S. arms if they paid cash and earned them away on their own ships |
| Tripartite Pact | three-party agreement establishing on alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | Amer. law that allowed the U.S. to lend, lease, sell, or otherwise provide aid to other nations if doing so helped in the defense of the U.S. |
| Atlantic Charter | document signed by Roosevelt and Churchhill that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of gen. security |
| Gen. Hideki Tojo | Japanese prime minister |
| Cordell Hull | U.S. Sec. of State and rejected Japan's demands |
| Pearl Harbor | Hawaii site of U.S. Navy's main Pacific base |
| Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo | commanded forces to Pearl Harbor |
| Edith Nourse Rogers | Congresswoman who introduced bill to establish Women's Army Corps |
| Women's Army Corps | provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors and lab technicians for U.S. army |
| War Production Board | to oversee conversion of peacetime industry to war industry |
| Office of War Mobilization | worked together to allocate secure materials into the proper industries, regulate the production of civilian goods, establish production contracts, negotiate with organized labor, and control inflation |
| Ford Motor Company | gave resources to war production |
| Henry J. Kaiser's | liberty ships |
| Gen. Douglas MacArthur | commander of U.S. Army forces in Asia |
| Bataan Death March | sick and malnourished Amer. forced to walk Peninsula |
| Colonel James Doolittle | led USS Hornet to bomb Japan |
| Battle of Coral Sea | battle between the U.S. and Japan where Japan was forced to give up on New Guinea |
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