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Coming of war
Ch. 14 vocab
Question | Answer |
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1. Totalitarianism | A theory of government in which a single party or leader controls the lives of people. |
2. Joseph Stalin | Took Lenin's place as the head of the Communist Party. |
3. Benito Mussolini | In 1919, he founded the Fasci di Combattimento, or Fascist Party, a right-wing organization that trumpeted nationalism and promised to make Italy great again. |
4. Adolf Hitler | Led the Nazi Party. |
5. anti-Semitic | Prejudice against Jewish people. |
6. Spanish Civil War | Nationalist forces led by Ganeral Fracisco Franco rebelled against the democratic Republican government of spain. |
7. appeasement | Policy of granting concessions in order to keep the peace. |
8. Anschluss | Union of Germany and Austria in 1933. |
9. Munich Pact | Agreement made between Germany,Italy,Great Britain,and France in 1938 that sacrificed the Sudetenland to preserve peace. |
10. blitzkrieg | "lightning war" that emphasized the use of speed and firepower to penetrate deep into the enemy's territory. |
11. Axis Powers | group of countries led by Germany,Italy,and Japan that fought the Allies in World War II. |
12. Allies | group of countries led by Britain,France,the the United States,and the Soviet Union that fought the Axis Powers in World War II. |
13. Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Britain. |
14. Neutrality Act of 1939 | act that allowed nations at war to buy goods and arms in the United States if they paid cash and carried the merchandise on their own ships. |
15. Tripartite Pact | agreement that created an alliance between Germany,Italy,and Japan during World War II. |
16. Lend-Lease Act | act passed in 1941 that allowed President Roosevelt to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense he considered vital to the safety of the United States. |
17. Atlantic Charter | a joint declaration made in August 1941 by Great Britain and the United States,during World War II,that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of general security. |
18. Hideki Tojo | Japanese prime minister. |
19. Pearl Harbor | Hawaii,the site of the United States Navy's main Pacific base. |
20. WAC | U.S Army group established during World War II so that women could serve in noncombat roles |
21. Douglass MacArthur | commander of the U.S Army forces in Asia,strugled to hold the U.S positions in the Philippines with little support. |
22. Bataan Death March | during World War II,the forced march of American and Filipino prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military. |
23. Battle of Coral Sea | World War II battle that took place between Japanese and American aircraft carriers. |