Vocab

Question 0

Fascism

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Rooted in militarism, extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state

Question 1

Totalitarian state

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Country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of peoples lives

Question 2

Aggression

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A warlike act by one country against another without just cause

Question 3

Nazis

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National Socialist German Workers’ Party

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Scapegoat

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A person or group on whom to blame their problems

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Concentration camp

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Prison camps for civilians who are considered enemies of the state

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Neutrality Acts

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Banned arms sales or loans to countries at war

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Good Neighbor Policy

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FDR withdrew American troops from Nicaragua and Haiti

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Munich Conference

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The leaders of Britain, France, Italy, and Germany met in Munich, Germany

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Appeasement

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Practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war

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Nazi-Soviet Pact

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In August 1939 Hitler signed Nazi-Soviet pact with Stalin. They agreed not to attack each other. They also agreed to divide Poland in other parts of Eastern Europe

Question 11

Blitzkrieg

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Lightning war

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Axis

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Italy, Japan, and six other nations joined Germany

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Allies

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Britain, France, the Soviet union, United States, China, and 45 other countries

Question 14

Lend-Lease Act

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During World War II, the law that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britain

Question 15

Atlantic Charter

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Set goals for the postwar world

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War production Board

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Helped factories shift from making consumer goods to making guns, ships, aircraft, and other war materials

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Rationing

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Limitations on the amounts of certain goods that people could buy

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Victory garden

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To combat food shortages, many Americans planted victory Gardens

Question 19

Rosie the riveter

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A fictional factory worker, became a symbol of American women’s contribution to the war effort

Question 20

“Double V” campaign

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Victory over the enemy abroad in victory over discrimination at home

Question 21

Tuskegee airmen

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African American fighter pilots who trained at Tuskeegee, Alabama

Question 22

Compensation

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Repayment for losses

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Island hopping

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During World War II, Allied a strategy of capturing Japanese held islands to gain control of the Pacific ocean

Question 24

Navajo code – talkers

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During World War II, Navajo soldiers who used their own language to radio vital messages during the island hopping campaign

Question 25

Kamikaze

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World War II Japanese Pilate trained to make a suicidal crash attack, usually upon a ship

Question 26

Potsdam declaration

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Message sent by the allies in July 1945 calling for Japanese surrender

Question 27

Bataan death march

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Long trek across the Philippines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942

Question 28

Holocaust

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Slaughter of Europe's Jews by the Nazis before and during World War II

Question 29

Nuremberg trials

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Nazi war crimes trials are held in 1945 and 1946