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chap. 14 vocab.

chapter 14 vocabulary

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1.totalitarianism: a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic,social,and cultural lives of its people.
2.Joseph Stalin: took Lenin's place as the head of the communist party.
3.Benito Mussolini: entered the world stage.
4. Adolf Hitler: led the Nazi party.
5.anti-semitic: prejudiced against jewish people.
6.Spanish Civil War: a bloody conflict that raged from 1936 until 1939.
7.appeasement: the policy that France and Britain pursued against aggressive nations during the 1930's.
8.Anschluss: Austria was given little choice but to accept this union.
9.Munich pact: the agreement reached at the conference , had preserved ''peace for our time ''.
10.blitzkrieg: sudden attack,hit Poland from 3 diffrent directions.
11.axis powers: eventually included Germany .
12.allies: included Britain, France and eventually many other nations.
13.Winston Churchill: cautioned parliament ," wars are not won by evacuations".
14.Neutrality Act of 1939: included a cash and carry provision.
15. lend lease act: symbolically numbered 1776, after another heated debate between isolationists and interventionlists.
16.Atlantic Charter: a document that endorsed national self determination and an international system of general security.
17.Hideki Tojo: became Japanese prime minister.
18.Pearl Harbor: Hawaii, the site of the United States navy's main pacific base.
19.WAC: in 1943 to provide clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors , and lab technicians for the U.S. Army.
20.Douglas MacArthur: commander of the U.S. army in Asia, struggled the U.S. positions in the Philippines.
21.Bataan Death March : more than 7000 American and Filipino troops died during the grueling journey .
22.Battle of Coral Sea: also helped kindle hope for the american military in the pacific.
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