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Topic 14 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dictator | Ruler who has complete power & controls by force |
| Totalitarian state | Country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people, for example: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union |
| Korematsu v. U.S. | Supreme Court case upholding the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans during World War II |
| Tuskegee Airmen | 332nd Fighter Group consisting of all African American pilots- shot down more than 200 enemy planes |
| D-Day | This was the turning point of WWII - AKA Operation Overlord when on June 6, 1944 the Allies invaded Normandy, France to start the liberation of Europe |
| Anti-Semitism | Hostility or discrimination against Jews; practiced by the Nazi Party |
| Munich Conference | A meeting where Hitler assured France & Great Britain that he would take no more territory if they allowed him to have the Sudetenland |
| Internment Camp | The detention centers where Japanese Americans were moved to and confined during World War II |
| Manhattan Project | Secret project carried out in New Mexico that developed the atom-ic bomb during World War II. Led to the bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki |
| Appeasement | Practice of giving in to an aggressor nation's demands in order to preserve peace & avoid war, for example: when Great Britain & France gave in to Hitler at the Munich Conference |
| Blitzkrieg | German word meaning lightning war, which describes the swift attacks launched by the Germans in WWII |
| Pearl Harbor | The immediate cause for US entry into WWII, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941 |
| Fascist party | A system of government that started in Italy and was marked by centralization of authority under a dictator |
| Mobilization | Gathering resources and preparing for war |
| Kamikaze | During World War II, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target |
| Holocaust | Hitler's policy of ethnic cleansing when he had 6 million Jews killed |
| Lend-lease | The act passed during WWII allowing the United States to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the United States" |
| Ration | To give out scarce items on a limited basis |
| Nuremberg trials | Trials for war crimes committed during WWII. Many Nazi leaders were executed as a result |
| Island hopping | Strategy of Allies in WWII of capturing some Japanese-held is- lands and going around others |
| Genocide | The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Atlantic Charter | a 1941 program developed by the United States and Britain that set goals for the postwar world |
| War Production Board | a government agency created during World War II to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials |
| victory garden | during World War II, a vegetable garden planted to combat food shortages in the United States |
| Bracero Program | the recruitment of Mexican laborers to work in the United States during World War II |
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