Chapter 14 & 15
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| totalitarianism | a theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people.
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| anti-Semitic | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people.
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| Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican government of Spain.
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| appeasement | policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace.
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| Anchluss | union of Germany and Austria in 1933.
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| Munich Pact | agreement made between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudetenland to preserve peace.
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| blitzkrieg | fast pace war, speed of fire power.
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| Axis Powers | group of countries led by Germany, Italy, and Japan that fought the Allies in World War 2.
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| Allies | group of countries led by Britain, France, the United States, and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis Powers in World War 2.
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| Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships.
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| Tripartite Pact | agreement that created an alliance between Germany, Italy, Japan during World War 2.
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| Lend-Lease Act | act passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country that helped the United States.
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| Atlantic Charter | a joint declaration made in August 1941 by Great Britain and the United States during World War 2, that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security.
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| Pearl Harbor | American military base attacked by the Japanese on December 7, 1941.
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| WAC | U.S. American group established during World War 2 so that women could serve in noncombat roles.
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| Bataan Death March | the forced march American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military.
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| Battle of Coral Sea | WW2 battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers.
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| unconditional surrender | giving up completely without any concessions.
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| strategic bombing | tactic of dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets.
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| Tuskegee Airmen | African Americans squadron that escorted bombers.
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| Battle of Midway | turning point in WW2 in the Pacific, in which Japanese advance was stopped.
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| Executive Order 8802 | WW2 measure that assured fair hiring practices in any job funded by the government.
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| bracero program | plan that brought laborers from Mexico to work on American farms.
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| internment | temporary imprisonment of members of a specific group.
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| Korematsu v. United States | court upheld the government wartime internment policy between Japanese and Americans.
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| 442nd Regimental Combat Team | fought in the Italian campaign and became the most decorated military unit in American history.
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| rationing | government-controlled limits on the amount of certain goods that civilians could buy during wartime.
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| OWI | government agency that encouraged support of the war effort during WW2.
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| D-Day | June 6, 1944 the day Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy, France.
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| Battle of the Buldge | December 1944, Hitler ordered a counter attack on Allied troops in Belgium.
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| island hopping | WW2 strategy that involved seizing selected Japanese-held islands in the Pacific While bypassing others.
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| kamikaze | Japanese pilots who deliberately crashed planes into American ships during WW2.
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| Manhattan Project | code name for the project that developed the atomic bomb.
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| Holocaust | the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis.
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| anti-semitism | prejudice and discrimination against Jewish people.
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| Nuremberg Laws | laws enacted by Hitler that denied German citizenship to Jews.
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| Kristallnacht | organized attacks on Jewish communities in Germany on November 9, 1938.
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| genocide | willful annihilation of racial, political, or cultural group.
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| concentration camp | places where they keep the Jews and torture them.
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| death camp | Nazi camp designed for the extermination for prisoners.
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| War Refugee Board | U.S. government agency founded in 1944 to save Eastern European Jews.
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| Yalta Conference | 1945 strategy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin.
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| superpower | powerful country that plays a dominant economic, political, and military role in the world.
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| GATT | international agreement first signed in 1947 aimed at lowering trade barriers.
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| United Nations | organization founded in 1945 to promote peace.
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document issued by the UN to promote basic human rights and freedoms.
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| Geneva Convention | international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
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| Nuremberg Trials | trials in which Nazi leaders were charged with war crimes.
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| saturation bombing | dropping massive bombs to have destruction.
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