Chapter 24 Terms

Question 1

Fascism

Answer 1

A political based system on militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state and its leader

Question 2

Aggression

Answer 2

A warlike act by one country against another without cause

Question 3

Appeasement

Answer 3

A policy of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war

Question 4

Totalitarian state

Answer 4

A nation in which a single party controls the government and every aspect of its people’s lives

Question 5

Total war

Answer 5

A conflict involving not just armies but entire nations

Question 6

Rationing

Answer 6

The act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy

Question 7

Intern

Answer 7

Temporarily imprison

Question 8

Braceros

Answer 8

Mexican laborers

Question 9

Island hopping

Answer 9

American forces captured some Japanese-held islands and go around others

Question 10

Kamikaze

Answer 10

Suicide pilots crashed their planes into american ships

Question 11

Genocide

Answer 11

The deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire nation

Question 12

War crimes

Answer 12

Wartime acts of cruelty and brutality that are judged to be beyond the rules of war and human accepted behavior