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Model 11 part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Fascism | a political philosophy that advocates a strong, centralized, nationalistic government headed by a powerful dictator |
| Genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group |
| Ghetto | a city neighborhood in which a certain minority group is pressured or forced to live |
| Concentration camp | a prison camp operated by Nazi Germany in which Jews and other groups considered to be enemies of Adolf Hitler were starved while doing slave labor or were murdered |
| Neutrality Acts | a series of laws enacted in the 1930s to prevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war |
| Lend-Lease Act | a law passed in 1941, that allowed the United States to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers |
| Axis Powers | the group of nations- including Germany, Italy, and Japan-that opposed the allies in World War 2 |
| Allies | the group of nations- including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States- that opposed the Axis powers |
| Selective Training and Service Act- | a U.S. law passed in 1940 that enacted the nation’s first peacetime military draft |