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Ch. 23 Vocab
Ch. 23 Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Reparations | Compensation of war damage. |
Fascism | A form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early Europe. |
Dictator | One ruler with total power. |
Genocide | The deliberate killing of a large group of people. |
World War II | A war fought from 1939 to 1945 between the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allied powers (France Great Britain, Russia and later the United States). |
Rationing | Allowing each person to have a particular community. |
Black Market | An illegal traffic or trade in officially controlled or scarce commodities. |
Blackout | A failure of electrical power supply. |
Holocaust | A Jewish sacrificial offering that is burned completely on an altar. |
Accredit | To give credit to someone for. |
Civil Service | The permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians. |
Benito Mussolini | An Italian politician, journalist, and leader of the National Fascist Party as Prime Minister from 1922 to 1943. |
Ellis Arnall | An American politician, a liberal Democrat who served as the 69th Governor of the U.S. state of Georgia from 1943 to 1947. |
Allied Powers | United States, Britain, France & Russia |
Axis Powers | Germany, Italy & Japan |
Adolf Hitler | An Austrian-born German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party. |
Hideki Tojo | A general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan. |