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Chap 14 & 15
WW11
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| totalitarianism | a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people. |
| Joseph Stalin | took Lenin's place as the head of the communist party |
| Benito Mussolini | founded the fascist party |
| Adolf Hitler | lad the Nazi party |
| anti-Semitic | prejudiced against Jewish people |
| Spanish Civil War | the nationalists rebelled against Spain's Republican government |
| appeasement | policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in the hope that it will maintain peace |
| Anschluss | a union for Austria |
| Munich Pact | agreement reached at conference |
| blitzkrieg | sudden attack |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allies | britain, france and eventually the soviet union, the U.S., and china |
| Winston Churchill | prime minister for britain |
| Neutrality Act of 1939 | included a cash-and-carry provision |
| tripartite pact | germany, italy, japan signed this to become allies |
| lend-lease act | another heated debate between isolationalists and interventionalists |
| Atlantic charter | a document that endorsed national self-determinination |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanses prime minister |
| Pearl Harbor | Hawaii, the U.S. navy's main naval base |
| WAC | women worked as wrokers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the U.S. army |
| Bataan Death March | more than 7,000 American & Filipino troops died during the grueling journey |
| Battle of Coral sea | helped kindle hope for the American military in the Pacific |
| Dwight Eisenhower | commanded the allied invasion of north africa |
| George S. Patton Jr. | tank commander |
| unconditional surrender | giving up completely w/o any concessions |
| saturation bombing | british planes dropped bombs on german cities |
| strategic bombing | when Americn bombers targetes germanys key & political centers |
| Tuskegee Airmen | escorted bombers & protecting them from enemy fighter pilots |
| chester nimitz | commander of U.S. navy in pacific |
| Battle of Midway | turning point of the war |
| A. philip Randolph | asserted that afican americans would no longer accept second-class citizenship |
| Executive order 8802 | established fair hiring practices in any job funded w/ gov. money |
| bracero program | broght laborers from Mexico to work on american farms |
| internment | temporary imprisonmentof members of a specific group. |
| Korematsu v. United states | the supreme court upheld the gov'ts wartime internment policy |
| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian campeign and became the most decorated military unit in American history |
| Office of war information (OWI) | worked closely with the media to encourage support of the war effort |
| D-Day | the Allies hit Germany in force |
| Battle of the Bulge | the germans caught the allies by surprise, created a bulge in the American line, captured several key towns |
| island-hopping | stategy capturing some Japanese-held islands and ignoring others in a steady path toward japan |
| Harry S. Truman | new president |
| kamikaze | pilot deliberatle crashed their planes into American ships |
| Albert Einstein | the world's most famous scientist, sent letter to president about the need to proceed with atomic development |
| J. Robert Oppenheimer | ran scientific aspect of Manhattan Project |
| Manhatten Project | code name project that developed the atomic bomb |
| Holocaust | the Nazi attempt to kill all jews |
| anti-semitism | prejudice against jewish people |
| nuremberg laws | denied german citizanship to jews |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Class" organized attack on german communities |
| genocide | willful annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| concentration camps | where members of specially designated groups were confined |
| death camps | where prisoners were systematically exterminated |
| war refugee board | worked with red cross to save thousands of jews lives |
| yalta conference | the big three agreed that poland, bulgaria, and romania would hold free elections |
| superpowers | U.S. & Soviet Union dominated the post war world |
| GATT | treaty signed to expand world trade |
| United Nations | an organization that was hoped to succeed |
| Universal declaration of human rights | document that stated everyone has the right to a standard of living |
| geneva convention | an international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war |
| nuremberg trials | the allies persecuted nazis for war crimes |
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