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Ch. 23
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Reparations | The compensation for war damage paid by a defeated state. |
| Fascism | Extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice. |
| Dictator | A ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained power by force. |
| Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. |
| World War II | Also called Second World War, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. |
| Ratioing | Allow someone to have only (a fixed amount of a certain commodity). |
| Black Market | An illegal traffic or trade in officially controlled or scarce commodities. |
| Blackout | W suppression of information, especially one imposed on the media by government. |
| Holocaust | Was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. |
| Accredit | Give credit (to someone) for. (of an official body) Give authority or sanction to (someone or something) when recognized standards have been met. |
| Civil Service | The permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians. |
| Benito Mussolini | Was an Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country as Prime Minister from 1922 until his ousting in 1943. |
| Ellis Arnall | Was an American politician, a liberal Democrat who served as the 69th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. |
| Allied Powers | Were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on Dec. 8–11, 1941), and China. |
| Axis Powers | The coalition headed by Germany, Italy, and Japan that opposed the Allied Powers in World War II. |
| Adolf Hitler | Was an Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. |
| Hideki Tojo | Was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from October 17, 1941 to July 22, 1944. |