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ch.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   hating jews  
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Spanish civil war   nationalist forces lead by general fracisco franko rebelled against the democratic republican government of spain  
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Anchluss   union of germany and austria in 1933  
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appeasment   policy of granting concessions in order to keep peace  
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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   also known as the lightening war, that emphasized the use of speed and fire power to penetrate deep into the enemies terretory  
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allies   group of countries lead by britain france and the us, and the soviet union that fought axis powers in ww2  
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Axis powers   group of countries lead by germany, italy and japan that fought the allies in ww2  
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Neutrality Act of 1939   act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the us if they paid cash and carried the merchandice on their own ships  
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Tripartite Pact   agreement that created an alliance between germany italy and japan during ww2.  
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Lend-Lease Act   act passed in 1941 that allowed president roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whos defense he had considered vital to the safty of the united states  
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Atlantic Charter   a joint declaration made in august 1941 by great Britain and the us during ww2 that endorsed national self determination and the international system of general security.  
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Pearl Harbor   american military based attacked by the japanese on december 7 1941  
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(WAC)Womens Army Core   us army group established during ww2 so that women could serve in non-combat roles.  
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Bataan Death March   during ww2 the forced march of american and Philippeno prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military  
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Battle or 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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saturation bombing   tactic of dropping massive amount of bombs in order to inflict maximum amount of damage  
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strategic bombing   tactic of dropping bombs on key polictical and industrial targets  
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Tuskegee Airmen   african american squadron that escorted bombers in the air war over europe in ww2  
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Battle of midway   turning point of ww2 in the pacific in which the 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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Brancero 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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Koremastsu v. United states   the supreme court upheld the governments wartime interment policy.  
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442nd Regimental    
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rationing   government-controlled limits on the amounts of certain goods that the civilians could by during war time  
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OWI Office of war information   government agency that encouraged support for the war effort in 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 Bulge   december 1944 hitler ordered a counter attack on allied troops in belgium but it crippled germany by using up reserves and demoralizing its troops  
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island hopping   ww2 strategy that involved seixing selected japanses held islands in the pacific while by passing others  
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Kamikaze   japanses pilots who deliberately crashed planes into american ships in ww2.  
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Manhattan Project   code name of the project that developed the atomic bomb  
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Holocaust   name now used to describe 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   law enacted by hitler that denied citizenship to jews  
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Kristallnacht   night of the broken glass organized attacks on jewish communities in germany on november 9, 1938  
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genocide   willfull annihilation of a racial, political, or cultural group.  
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concentration camp   camps used by the nazis to imprison undesirable memvber of society.  
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death camp   nazi camp designed for the extermination of prisoners  
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War Refugee Board   us government agency founded in 1944 to sae eastern European jews  
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Yalta Conference   1945 stragety meeting between Roosevelt churchhill and stalin  
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superpower   Powerful country that plays dominate economic political and military role in the world  
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GATT   internation 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 united nations to promte basic human rights and freedoms  
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Geneva convention   international agreement governing the humane treatment of wounded soliders and prisoners of war  
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Nuremberg trials   trials in which nazi leader were charged with war crimes  
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Combat Team    
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