chapter 27 soc

Question 0

Neutrality

Answer 0

Not participating in the war; staying neutral

Question 1

Rationing

Answer 1

Where the government sets a fixed amount of food or goods one can use. This happened in order to feed our soldiers and produce war materials

Question 2

Mobilization

Answer 2

When a country goes from a consumer economy to a wartime economy. The government takes control of the government and ignores laizze-faire

Question 3

Laizze-faire

Answer 3

Where the government is not involved in the economy

Question 4

Isolation

Answer 4

The separation between people or groups

Question 5

Internment

Answer 5

The US army forced Japanese-Americans to stay in internment camps during the war to reduce national tensions

Question 6

Home Front

Answer 6

The US during wartime everyone helped out to produce war materials and food

Question 7

Halocaust

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Hitler’s extermination of Jews, Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, mentally ill, and others

Question 8

Ghetto

Answer 8

A place where Jews were sent while they waited to be taken to concentration camps

Question 9

Genocide

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The extermination of a race, ethnic, or religious group

Question 10

Final solution

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Hitlers idea that the only way to fix Germany’s issues was to get rid of all the Jews

Question 11

Fascism

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A form of totalitarian government in which a leader (dictator) controls all aspects of life. The emphasis the national glory and power, rather than the rights of the people. The people are below the country. The country as a while is more important then the individuals.

Question 12

Eastern front

Answer 12

The eastern border of Germany

Question 13

Dictatorship

Answer 13

A leader who has absolute power and rules a nation by force

Question 14

Concentration camp

Answer 14

A place where people are packed together and forced to work or sentenced to death

Question 15

Communism

Answer 15

A form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

Question 16

Blitzkrieg

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A swift and violent military offense with intense arial bombing

Question 17

Axis powers

Answer 17

Germany, Italy, and Japan

Question 18

Appeasement

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Giving into the demands of another party in order to keep peace

Question 19

Anti-semitism

Answer 19

Discrimination against jewish people

Question 20

Allied powers

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United states, France, great Britain, and soviet union

Question 21

Kristalnacht

Answer 21

The night of broken glass. The undercover Nazi police started a riot and attacked Jews and destroyed homes, religious places, and businesses. After the Nazis said it was a riot started by civilians.

Question 22

Island Hopping

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The goal was for allied troops to capture key islands that could serve as bases from which they would continue to attack Japan

Question 23

D-Day

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Also called Operation Overload. The allied powers crossed the English channel and managed to take back Paris. This was the counteroffensive so the Nazis would leave the Western Front

Question 24

Battle of Stalingrad

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The turning point of the war because the Soviets finally beat the Nazis causing them to retreat

Question 25

Battle of the Bulge

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Germans made their last stand against the Allied powers advance in December. The Germans were forced to reatreat

Question 26

Bataan Death March

Answer 26

76,000 American troops were forced to march without food or water for more than 60 miles to the P.O.W. camps, only about 54,000 survived.

Question 27

A. Phillip Randolph

Answer 27

US labor and equality leader

Question 28

Fred Korematsu

Answer 28

Apart from the supreme court ruling Korematsu vs US. He said that interment camps were unconstitutional

Question 29

Winston Churchill

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Prime minister of Britain. Apart of Allied Powers

Question 30

Joseph Stalin

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Dictator of the Soviet Union. Switched over from Axis to Allied powers. Stalin was not fascist but was a totalitarian ruler

Question 31

Harry S Truman

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US president. Gave sign to drop the atomic bomb

Question 32

FDR

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US president going into WWll

Question 33

Dwight D Eisenhower

Answer 33

US president

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Douglas MacArthur

Answer 34

General of the US army and marshal of Philippine Army

Question 35

Benito Mussolini

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Mussolini promised to restore Italy's greatness. He became dictator. He had control over all aspects of life. He built up Italy's military and joined the axis powers

Question 36

Adolph hitler

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Dictator of Germany and ran as the Nazi Party. During the depression, became ruler, started WWll, conducted Halocaust, and killed many people

Question 37

Lend-lease Act

Answer 37

Allowed the US to sell, lend, or lease weapons to any country "vital to the defense of the US". The US lent weapons to the Allied forces

Question 38

Manhattan project

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The undercover project at Chicago University to develop the atomic bomb

Question 39

Miracle at Dunkirk

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Trapped against the sea, 100,000 British and French troops were evacuated by sea, using both navy and civilian boats

Question 40

Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact

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Signed by Hitler and Stalin agreeing to be Allies throughout the war. Hitler broke this pact because the Nazis needed to take Russia for living space

Question 41

Nonaggression pact

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An agreement to not fight with one another

Question 42

Neutrality Acts

Answer 42

The US was prohibited from selling weapons or making loans to any nations at war

Question 43

Nuremberg trials

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A series of laws that stripped Jews of their rights as German citizens, including the right to vote, own property, practice many professions, inter-marry with Germans and own businesses

Question 44

Pearl harbor

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Japanese bombed the US because we had been cutting off their supply routes

Question 45

Operation overload

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SAME AS D-DAY

Question 46

Propaganda

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Biased one-sided media that is made to turn people for or against something

Question 47

Siege of Leningrad

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Lasted 900 days. Germans cut off supplies and finally the soviets drove them back

Question 48

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 48

Stated that Germany was guilty of starting WWl

Question 49

Reparations

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Payments for damage caused by the war (ex. Germany paid reparations for WWl)

Question 50

Siege

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A military blockade; nothing enters and nothing leaves

Question 51

Totalitarianism

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Complete dictatorial control over all aspects of life

Question 52

Western front

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The western border of Germany