Chapter 14 and 15
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| 1. totalitarianism | when a single party or member controls the economic, social, and cultural lives of its people
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| 2. anti-semitic | prejudice against jews
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| 3. Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by General Francisco Franco rebelled against Democratic Republican government in spain
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| 4. appeasement | policy granting concessions to a political enemy in hope that they will maintain peace
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| 5. Anschluss | union of Germany and Austria in 1933
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| 6. Munich Pact | agreement between Germany, Italy, and Japan that scarified the Sudetenland to preserve peace
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| 7. blitzkrieg | sudden attack
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| 8. Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan
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| 9. Allies | Britain, France, and eventually Soviet Union, United States, and China
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| 10. Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations to buy food and war supplies from the US but they had to pay in cash and also carry the supplies on their own ships
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| 11. tripartite Pact | what made Germany, Italy, and Japan allies
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| 12. Lend-Lease Act | allowed FDR to send supplies to any country that he considered vital to the safety of the US
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| 13. Atlantic Charter | document that endorsed national self determination and an international system of "general security"
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| 14. Pearl harbor | when Japan surprise attacked America causing them to get into the war
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| 15. WAC | Woman Army Corps, made women jobs in the military as truck drivers, instructors, lab technicians, and clerical workers
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| 16. Bataan Death March | when Japan made the POW march 55 miles up the Bataan peninsula to get on a train and walk 8 more miles
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| 17. Battle of Coral Sea | battle between Japanese and Americans over the Coral Sea and it was fought with air planes
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| 18. unconditional surrender | giving up completely without giving any concessions
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| 19. saturation bombing | dropping lots of bombs for a lot of damage
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| 20. strategic bombing | dropping bombs on key political and industrial targets
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| 21. Tuskegee Airmen | African American squadron that escorted bombers in air war over Europe
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| 22. Battle of Midway | turning point where Japanese advance was stopped
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| 23. Executive Order 8802 | assured fair hiring practices for all government positions
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| 24. bracero program | program that brought Mexican Workers to work on American farms
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| 25. internment | temporary imprisonment of a member of a specific group
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| 26. Korematsu vs. United States | when the supreme court upheld government wartime internment policy
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| 27. 442nd Regimental Combat Team | WWII team made up of Japanese American Volunteers
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| 28. rationing | diving up something when supplies get low
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| 29. OWI | Office of War Information, encouraged support of the war effort during WWII
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| 30. D-Day | June 6, 1944, the day Allies forces landed on the beach of Normandy France
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| 31. Battle of the Buldge | Hitler organized a counter attack on the allies in Belgium and it crippled Germany
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| 32. Island Hopping | seizing certain Japanese islands while bypassing others
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| 33. kamikaze | Japanese pilots that ran into American ships during WWII
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| 34. Manhattan Project | name of the project that developed the atomic bomb
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| 35. Holocaust | systematic murder of jews
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| 36. Geneva Convention | international agreement that set humane treatment for wounded soldiers
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| 37. Nuremburg Laws | laws passed by Hitler that said Jews coulden't be citizens of Germany
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| 38. Kristallnact | organized attacks of Jewish communities in Germany
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| 39. genocide | annihilation of a social, political, or racial group
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| 40. concentration camp | places where Nazis imprisoned minorities
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| 41. death camp | place for exterminating prisioners
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| 42. War Refugee Board | agency that saved Eastern European Jews
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| 43. Yalta Conference | stratigy meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
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| 44. superpower | powerful country that plays a economic and political role in the world
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| 45. GATT | lower trade barriers
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| 46. Universal Declaration of Human Rights | document passed by the UN to make basic human rights
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| 47. United Nations | 1945 to promote world peace
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| 48. Nuremberg Trials | trials where Nazi Leaders were charged with war crimes
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| 49. anti-semitism | discrimination on a group of people
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