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Unit 1 Progressive
american history
Question | Answer |
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Diplomacy | activity or skill managing international relationships |
Monroe Doctrine | Created by James Monroe, A document opposing colonialism 1823. |
Panama Canal | canal created by Teddy Roosevelt. built 1904-1914 |
The society of Harmonious Fists | Secret Chinese organization "boxers" |
Open Door Policy | All countries able to trade with china. gave away land for trade. supported by Roosevelt |
Audacious | Being bold |
Filament | Long thin fiber like object |
Irrevocable | Something that cant take back or cant undo. |
Molten | Very hot metal, steel. |
Rogue | Doing your own thing |
Tenement | living quarters. |
Unscrupulous | Not honest. |
Veritable | Intensifies the word or meaning of a phrase. used to verify authenticity |
Advocate | Someone who publicly supports or a certain cause or policy. |
Neutrality Act 1935 to 1937 | banned weapons sales to Spain. It did however allow countries to purchase weapons for cash if they could carry them on their own ships. |
Blitzkrieg | an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
Maginot Line | a line of concrete fortifications, obstacles, and weapon installations built by France in the 1930s to deter invasion by a resurgent Germany and compel them into a long battle of attrition. |
Luftwaffe | generic German term for an air force. It was also the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. |
Holocaust | destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war. |
Lend-Lease Act | the matériel and services supplied by the U.S. to its allies during World War II under an act of Congress (Lend-Lease Act) passed in 1941: such aid was to be repaid in kind after the war. |
Embargo | an official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country. |
December 7th 19141 | the bombing of pearl harbor. |