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Social Studies
Vocab Test
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sanctions | Penalties |
| Appeasment | Giving in to the demands of an aggressor to keep the peace |
| Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
| Anschluss | Union of Austria and Germany |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning War |
| Radar | Detects airplanes |
| Sonar | Detects submarines |
| Genocide | Deliberate Murder |
| Collaborator | Helping the Nazis hunt down the Jews |
| Reparations | Payment for damages caused by imprisonment |
| Island Hopping | The goal was to recapture some Jap. held islands while bypassing others |
| Kamikaze | Pilots who undertook suicide missions, crashing their explosive laden planes into American warships |
| Satellites | Dependent states |
| NATO | Alliance among the U.S, Canada, and the nine Western European countries |
| Warshaw Pact | Alliance among the Soviet Union and the seven satellite states in Eastern Europe |
| Truman Doctrine | Policy of American resistance to Soviet expansion and aid to democracy |
| Cold War | A sate of tension and hostilty among nations without armed battles |
| Marshal Plan | U.S Financial aid to rebuild war taxes. Gave 17 billion dollars in food, machinery and raw materials |
| Proletariat | Growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners |
| Soviet | Council of workers and soldiers |
| Command Economy | Gov. officials made all basic economic decisions |
| Commissars | Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach the party principles and ensure loyalty |
| Collective | Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group |
| Kulaks | Wealthy peasants |
| Totalitarian State | A one party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens |
| Atheism | Belief that there is no god |
| Social realism | To boost scialism by showing Soviet life in apositive light through art and writing |
| Disarmament | The eduction of armed forces and weapons |
| General Strike | Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time |
| Margin Buying | Paying for part of the cost and borrowing the rest from brokers |
| Over Production | A condition in which production of goods exceed the demand for them |
| Chancellor | Prime minister |
| Repudiate | rejected |
| Cocentration Camps | Detention centers for civilians considered to be enemies to the state |
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