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USHistory Chap 16-17
US History Chapter 16-17 Review Vocab B
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nazism | Extreme nationalism - Uniting all German speaking people in a great German empire. |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Pact between Germany and Russia not to fight each other. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland. |
| Rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military. |
| Office of Price Administration | Agency of the federal government that fought inflation. |
| Island-Hopping | Island by island the US won territory back from the Japanese. |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide flight. |
| Executive Order 9066 | Gave military officials the power to limit the civil rights of Japanese Americans. |
| Yalta Conference | Meeting at Yalta between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill to determine fate of Germany and the postwar world. |
| Manhattan Project | Secret research project that resulted in the atomic bomb. |
| Little Boy/Fat Man | Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. |
| VE Day/VJ Day | Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945. |
| December 7, 1941 | The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, causing the US to declare war the next day. |
| June 6, 1944 | Code named Operation overlord. First day of the invasion of Normandy in Northern France. |
| Nazism | Extreme nationalism. |
| Non-Aggression Pact | Agreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other. |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland. |
| Rationing | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military. |
| Office of Price Administration | Agency of the federal government that fought inflation. |
| Island-Hopping | Island by island the US won territory back from the Japanese. |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide flight. |
| Executive Order 9066 | Gave military officials the power to limit the civil rights of Japanese Americans. |