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US History - Unit 10
World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Appeasement | Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
| Axis Powers | Alliance of Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allied Powers | Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II. |
| Fascism | A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule. |
| Totalitarianism | A political system in which the government has total control over the lives of individual citizens. |
| Dictator | A ruler who has complete power over a country |
| Nazism | German brand of fascism |
| League of Nations | A global association formed in 1919 to promote peace. It was later replaced by the United Nations in 1945. |
| Invasion of Poland | Germany's invasion of Poland marks the beginning of WWII |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war |
| Anti-semitism | Prejudice against Jews |
| Adolf Hitler | German Nazi dictator during World War II |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945) |
| Pearl Harbor | Surprise attack by the Japanese on the main U.S. Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii December 7, 1941. In response, the U.S. declared war on Japan. |
| The Holocaust | The Nazi program of exterminating Jews and undesirables under Hitler |
| Genocide | Deliberate elimination of a group through mass murder. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi leaders were put on trial for crimes against humanity or for directing the Holocaust. |
| The Manhattan Project | A secret research and development project of the US to develop the atomic bomb. |
| Nagasaki | A city in Japan where the United States dropped the second atomic bomb |
| Hiroshima | City in Japan, the first to be destroyed by an atomic bomb |
| Neutrality Acts 1939 | Laws designed to keep the U.S. out of future wars |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 |
| Concentration Camps | Prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. |
| Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. |
| Harry Truman | U.S. president who gave the order to drop the atomic bomb as opposed to a land invasion of Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S |
| Four Freedoms | Freedom of Speech, Religion, Want, from Fear; used by FDR to justify a loan for Britain, if the loan was made, the protection of these freedoms would be ensured |
| Japanese-American Internment | Roosevelt signed a document Feb. 19,1942 stating that all people of Japanese ancestry from California and parts of Washington, Oregon, and Arizona, needed to be removed. Put them in internment camps because of their fear for another attack by the Japanese. |
| Korematsu v. US | 1944 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court upheld the order providing for the relocation of Japanese Americans. It was not until 1988 that Congress formally apologized and agreed to pay $20,000 to each survivor |
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