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Chapter 10 and 11
Chapter 10 and 11 Definitions
Question | Answer |
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Stock Market | It is a place where stocks are traded. |
Invested | It is to buy something or to put money into a business in order to make more money.. |
Hoovervilles | It was an area of a city where poor,homeless people built shacks to live in during the Great Depression. Hoovervilles were named after President Hoover. |
Migrant Farm Workers | It is a person who goes from farm to farm looking for work. |
Veterans | He or She is a person who has been in the armed forces. |
Recovery | It is a return to normal conditions. |
Insurance | It is protection against property loss or damage. |
Pensions | IT is a sum of money paid regularly to a person after he or she has retired from a job. |
Minority | It is a group of people that is thought to be different than the larger group it is a part of because of race or religion. |
Polio | It is a disease that is caused by a virus. It leads to paralysis and mainly affects children. |
Totalitarian | These dictators had total power. |
Fascist | Mussolini became the leader of the Fascist party. |
Nazi | Hitler was the leader of the Nazi party. |
Anti-Semitism | Hatred of Jews, or anti-Semitism, spread through out Germany. |
Persecuted | Hitler Persecuted Germany's Jews. |
Concentration Camps | Thousands of Jews were arrested and sent to Concentration Camps where they became prisoners and were often killed. |
Axis Nations | They became known as the Axis Nations. |
Aggression | During the 1936s Germany and Italy and japan used Aggression, or military force, to attack and conquer other countries. |
Appeasement | the British and the French gave in to Hitler, using a policy known as Appeasement. |
Nonaggression Pact | In 1939 Hitler signed a Nonaggression Pact with Joseph Stalin. |
BlitzKrieg | Germany used a new method called Blitzkrieg. |
Civilians | Thousands of Civilians where killed. |
Isolationism | Most Americans continued to favor a policy of Isolationism. |
Destroyers | In 1940, Winston Churchill asked the United Sates for fifty old Destroyers, which are small warships that carry weapons. |