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Chapter 12/13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Defense Industries | The war created millions of jobs. |
| Rationed | Scarce items, such as soap, shoes, gasoline, meat, sugar, and butter, by using coupon books. |
| Recycling | Tin, Rubber, and other goods was also important. |
| Internment Camps | Americans living on the West Coast, about 112,000 people, move to?!?!? |
| Barracks | Each camp contained houses for family's. |
| Strategy | A plan to attack? |
| Liberated | To be set free. |
| HoloCaust | The mass murder of Jews and other people. |
| Gas Chambers | Rooms filled with Poison Gas. |
| Aircraft Carriers | The allies sank four of Japan's Carriers. |
| Atomic Bomb | Two thousand more powerful then a regular . |
| Zionism | Is the belief that Jews should have there own country in Palestine, or present-day Israel. |
| Pacifism | Is the belief that was are wrong and that disputes should be settled peacefully. |
| Cold War | It began between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
| SuperPowers | These two struggled over the spread of communism. |
| Iron Curtain | Soon after the Cold War began, Winston Churchill called the Soviet Union's control over Eastern Europe. |
| Containment | In order to stop communism from spreading from Eastern Europe to other areas, Truman developed a policy. |
| Berlin Airlift | The British Air Force also helped. Together they carried out the Airlift. |
| Arms Race | A race to build the largest military forces, began between the United States and the Soviet Union. |
| Truce | The Korean War ended when a or an agreement to stop fighting, was reached in 1953. |
| McMcarthyism | No means the policy of falsely accusing people of working against the governmnet. |
| Statellite | The "space race" became part of the Cold War in 1957 when the Soviet Union sent Sputnik. |