WWII Flashcards
(23 cards)
Prohibition
A period in the United States when the sale transportation and production of alcohol is legal the 18th amendment to the constitution out about alcohol from 1920 to 1933
Nativism
The political policy of promoting the interest of native inhabitants against those of immigrants
The immigration act of 1924
Limited the number of immigrants allowed entry into the United States through a national organs quota
Red scare
The promotion of a wide spurred fear of potential rise of communism, anarchy ism by society or state that America would be taken over by communist or anarchy spies, plotting against the government
Black Tuesday
Considered the beginning of the Great Depression panic or sellers caused the New York Stock Exchange to collapse caused unemployment businesses to close in the value of dollar to plummet
overproduction
When more products are produced than what can be sold
Hooverville
Ashanti town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America
dustbowl
a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecological and architecture of the American prairies during the 1930s
causes of the dust bowl
over grazing by cattle, new technology, steel plows, and tractors overuse of plotting by pharmacist destroyed the grass is that once held down the soil
New deal
A series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations meant to the end of GD
Inflation
A general increase in prices in fall in the purchasing value of money
lebensraum
Living space that was needed for Germany to become strong and prosperous
Antisemitism
Hostility two or prejudice against juice
aryaism
The so-called Iranian people processes superior capacities for government, social organizations, and civilization
appeasement
In the hope of avoiding war appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s, allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked
Sphere of influence
Territorial area within which the political influence or the interest of one nation are held to be more or less important
Pearl Harbor
The attack was a surprise, military strike by the imperial Japanese Navy air service upon the US against the naval base Pearl Harbor in Honolulu Hawaii attack the United States formal entry into World War II the next day
The draft
On September 16, 1940 United States instituted the selective training and service act of 1940 which required all them between the ages of 21 and 45 to register for the draft
Japanese intermittent
The forced relocation incarnation and concentration camps 110,000 to 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry most of whom lived on the Pacific coast had their homes and businesses taken and forced into camps for the duration of the war
D-Day
on June 6, 1944 in World War II on which Allied forces in invading northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy, the goal was to create a two front war between Allied and Russian forces
Concentration camp
A place where large numbers of people are in prison to provide force labor, or to a weight mass execution
The final solution
A plane made by Nazi Germany to kill millions of Jews and gypsies. The first plane was just to shoot people, but then they use killing vans
The atomic bomb
America use system enable the most destructive weapon of all time
