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