Vocabulary

Vocabulary


 * Section 1

Totalitarian State - a country where a single party controls tyhe government and every aspect of people's lives.

Fascism - political system that is rooted in militarism,extreme nationalism, and blind loyalty to the state.

aggression - warlike act by one country without just cause.

Nazis - member of the national Socialist german Workers' Party.

scapegoat - person or group who is made to bear the blame for others.

concentration camp - prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state.

Neutrality Acts - series of laws passed by Congress in 1935 that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war.

Good Neighbor Policy - President Franklin Roosevelt's policy intended to strengthen friendly relations with latin America. **

Section 2

**Munich Conference** - a 1938 meeting of the leaders of britian,France,Italy,and Germany at which an agreement was signed giving part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler.

**appeasement** - practice of giving into aggression in order to avoid war.

**Nazi-Soviet Pact** - agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each others.

**blitzkreig** - the swift attacks launched by Germany in World War II.

**Axis** - World War II military alliance of Germany ,Italy,Japan,And six other nations.

**Allies** - World War II military alliance of Britain,France,the Soviet Union,the United States,China, and 45 other countries.

**Battle of Britain** - Germany's failed attempt to subdue Britain in 1940 in prepartion for invasion.

**Lend-Lease Act** - during World War II,them law that allowed the United States to sell arms and equipment to Britian.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Atlantic Charter** - a 1941 program developed by the United States and Britain that set goals for the postwar world

Section 3

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**War Production Board** - government agency created during World War II to help factories shift from making consumer goods to making war materials.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">rationing ** - limitions on the amount of certain goods that people can buy


 * victory garden** - during World War I vegetable garden planted to combat food shortage in the United States.


 * Rosie the Riveter** - fictional factory worker who became a symbol of American women's contribution to the war effort during the Spanish-American War.


 * "Double V" campaign-** African American civil rights campaign during World War II.


 * Tuskegee Airmen -** AfricanAmerican fighter pilots who trained in Tuskegee,Alabama,during World War II


 * compensation -** repayment for losses.


 * bracero program** - recriutment of Mexican laborers to work in the United States during World War II.

Section 4


 * Battle of Midway** - a 1942 battle in Pacific during which American planes sank four Japanese aircraft carriers.


 * Operation Overlord** - code name for Allied invasion of Europe in 1944.


 * D-Day -** June 6.1944 the day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces.


 * Battle of the Bulge -** German counterattack in December 1944 that temporary slowed the Allied invasion of Germany

Chapter 5


 * island hopping** - during World War II,Allied strategy of capturing Japanese held islands to gain control of the Pacific Ocean.


 * Navajo code-talkers -** during World War II, Navajo soliders who used their own language to radio vital messages during the island-hopping campaign


 * kamikaze -** World War II Japenese pilot trained to make a suicidual crash attack,usually upon a ship


 * Potsdam Declaration** - Message sent by the allies in July 1945 calling for Japanese surrender.


 * Bataan Death March** - long trek across the Phillipines that American and Filipino prisoners of war were forced to make by the Japanese in 1942.