Vocab Notecards Era 8

Question 1

Progressive

Answer 1

Government reformers who believed the corruption could be corrected by moral behavior and good laws

Question 2

Suffrage

Answer 2

Right to vote

Question 3

Isolationism

Answer 3

Stay out of other nations’ affairs except in the defense of the US

Question 4

Red Scare

Answer 4

Period of fear about the potential spread of communism

Question 5

The Great Depression

Answer 5

Period of economic hardship in America during the 1930s

Question 6

New Deal

Answer 6

Roosevelt’s programs to end the Great Depression

Question 7

Welfare

Answer 7

Process by which government takes the responsibility for the economic security of its people

Question 8

Rationing

Answer 8

To give a fixed amount of something

Question 9

Nisei

Answer 9

Japaneese Americans born in the US

Question 10

Internment Camp

Answer 10

Area kept under gaurd

Question 11

Provisional

Answer 11

Trainsitional or temporary

Question 12

Bolshevik

Answer 12

Majority

Question 13

Fascism

Answer 13

Extreme conservative dictatorship

Question 14

Parliament

Answer 14

Legislative branch of some democracies

Question 15

Reparations

Answer 15

Compensation for damage done

Question 16

Propaganda

Answer 16

Misleading information used to promote a cause or point of view

Question 17

Untermenshen

Answer 17

Sub-humans included several groups of people from Eastern Europe including the Polish and Jewish Communities

Question 18

Anti-Semitism

Answer 18

Prejudice or hostility against Jews

Question 19

Blitzkrieg

Answer 19

“Lightning warfare” (use speed & surprise as tactics)

Question 20

Genocide

Answer 20

Systemic killing of a people group

Question 21

Ghettos

Answer 21

segregated parts of a city where Jews were forced to live

Question 22

Marshall Plan

Answer 22

American aid program to Europe to help rebuild economies after the war

Question 23

Truman Doctrine

Answer 23

Military & economic support for Turkey & Greece by the US to prevent failure that may result in communism

Question 24

Cold War

Answer 24

The politically hostile conditions that existed between the United States & Soviet Union from 1945-1990

Question 25

Nomad

Answer 25

A person who moves from place to place following seasonal patterns or resources

Question 26

Zionism

Answer 26

Movement of the Jewish people to Palestine