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Chapter 14

Chapter 14 Vocabulary

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Totalitarianism Government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, an cultural lives of its people.
Joseph Stalin Head of the Communist Party in Russia.
Benito Mussolini Founded the Fascist Party in Italy.
Adolf Hitler Led the Nazi Party in Germany.
Anti-Semitic Prejudice against Jewish people.
Spanish Civil War Bloody conflict from 1936-1939. Nationalists against democratic Republican government.
Appeasement Policy that Britain and France pursued against aggressive nations during the 1930's.
Anschluss A union with Austria.
Munich Pact Agreement that Sudetenland would be sacrificed for Germany's peace.
Blitzkrieg Lightning war. Hitler's war strategy.
Axis Powers Germany, Italy, Japan, and other smaller countries.
Allies Britain, France, and eventually Soviet Russia. United States, and China.
Winston Churchill Britain's Prime Minister.
Neutrality Act of 1939 A cash-and-carry provision. Allowed belligerent nations to buy goods and arms in the US if they paid cash and used their own ships.
Tripartite Act Act that made Italy, Germany, and Japan allies.
Lend-Lease Act Authorized Roosevelt to "sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article" whenever he thought it was "necessary in the interests of the defense in the US."
Atlantic Charter Document that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of "general security."
Kideki Tojo Japanese Prime Minister.
Pearl Harbor Site of the US Navy's main Pacific base.
WAC Provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the US Army.
Douglas MacArthur Commander of US Army forces in Asia.
Bataan Death March More than 7,000 American and Filipino troops died during the grueling journey to the Bataan Peninsula.
Battle of Coral Sea Helped to kindle the hope for the American military in the Pacific.
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