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chp 14 gs us vocab
Question | Answer |
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1. totalitarianism | a theory of government were a single party or leader controls economic, social, and cultural lives of its people |
2. Joseph Stalin | took control of the communist party in Russia after Lenin. (1924) |
3. Benito Mussolini | founded the Fasci di Combattimento (Fascist party)in Italy |
4. Adolf Hitler | led the Nazi party and dictator of Germany |
5. anti-Semitic | people who are prejudice against Jews |
6. Spanish Civil War | from 1936 to 1939 nationalists in spain rebelled against the democratic republican government in spain Fascists were victorious |
7. appeasement | is a policy of granting concessions to a potential enemy in hope that it will maintain peace. |
8. Anschluss | was a union between Austria and the third reich . austria had no choice |
9. Munich Pact | an agreement at the munich conference that only postponed the war for 11 months. |
10. blitzkrieg | "lighining war" ; air bomb raids a sudden attack that hit poland |
11. Axis Powers | an alliance that included Germany, Italy, japan, and several other nations |
12. Allies | Britain, France, U.S., Soviet Union, and China (alliance) |
13. Winston Churchill | prime minister of Britain |
14. Neutrality Act of 1939 | cash-and-carry provision; this allowed belligerent nations to buy goods and arms in the U.S. if they had cash and carried it on their own ships. |
15. Tripartite Pact | Germany, Italy, and Japan signed an agreement and became allies. |
16. Lend-Lease Act | was approved by congress; was numbered 1776 after another debate between isolationists and interventionists. |
17. Atlantic Charter | a document that endorsed national self-determination and an international system of "general security." |
18. Hideki Tojo | became the Japanese prime minister |
19. Pearl Harbor | U.S. main navy pacific base. was attacked by the Japanese |
20. Women's Army Corps (WAC) | provided clerical workers, truck drivers, instructors, and lab technicians for the u.s. |
21. Douglass MacArthur | commander of the u.s. army forces in asia |
22. Bataan Death March | 7,000 american and filipino troops died during this march |
23. Battle of Coral Sea | helped create hope for the american military in the pacific (it was the first sea fight in which enemy warships never sighted one another. (fight with the japanese) |