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American Cultures 17
Chapter 17 Key Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Totalitarian | A government that exerts total control over the nation and citizens' lives |
| Fascism | Political Philosophy that emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group, and the supreme authority of the leader over that of the individual |
| Purge | In political terms, the process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power |
| Nazism | An extreme form of fascism shaped by Adolf Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority |
| Axis Powers | In World War II, Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Blitzkrieg | Kind of warfare emphasizing rapid and mechanized movement; used by Germany during World War II |
| Appeasement | Policy of giving in to a competitor's demands in order to preserve the peace |
| Collaboration | Close cooperation |
| Resistance | Movement in France that opposed German occupation during World War II |
| Allies | In World War II, the alliance of Great Britain, The United States, the Soviet Union, and other nations |
| Manchurian Incident | Situation in 1931, when Japanese troops, claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line, took matters in their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities and by continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troo |
| Puppet State | A supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor |
| Burma Road | A 700-mile-long highway linking Burma (present-day Myanmar) to China |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | As announced in 1940 by Japan's prime minister, the area extending from Manchuria to the Dutch East Indies in which Japan would expand its influence |
| Neutrality Acts | 1939 laws designed to keep the United States out of future wars |
| Cash and Carry | World War II policy requiring nations at war to pay cash for all nonmilitary goods and to be responsible for transporting the goods from the United States |
| America First Committee | Group formed in 1940 by isolationists to block further aid to Britain |
| Lend-Lease Act | 1941 law that authorized the president to aid any nation whose defense he believed was vital to American security |
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