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1. / Dictator / Ruler who has complete power & controls by force
2. / Totalitarian state** / Country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people, for example: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union
3. / Anti-Semitism / Hostility or discrimination against Jews; practiced by the Nazi Party
4. / Disarmament / Removal of or giving up military weapons
5. / Appeasement** / Practice of giving in to an aggressor nation’s demands in order to preserve peace & avoid war, for example: when Great BritainFrance gave in to Hitler at the Munich Conference
6. / Blitzkrieg / German word meaning lightning war, which describes the swift attacks launched by the Germans in WWII
7. / Island hopping / Strategy of Allies in WWII of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others
8. / Nuremberg trials** / Trials for war crimes committed during WWII. Many Nazi and Japanese leaders were executed as a result
9. / Holocaust** / Hitler’s policy of ethnic cleansing when he had 6 million Jews killed
10. / Mobilization / Gathering resources and preparing for war
11. / Ration / To give out scarce items on a limited basis
12. / Internment Camp / The detention centers where Japanese Americans were moved to and confined during World War II
13. / Genocide / The deliberate destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group
14. / Kamikaze / During World War II, a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target
15. / Manhattan Project / Secret project carried out in New Mexico that developed the atomic bomb during World War II
16. / Yalta Conference (1945) / Last wartime meeting of the Allied leaders, in Yalta, outlining the organization of Europe in anticipation of Germany’s defeat and eventual end of World War II. The conference divided Germany and Berlin into zones of occupation and established the framework for the United Nations.
17. / United Nations** / International organization of countries created to promote world peace and cooperation. The UN was founded after World War II ended in 1945. Its mission is to maintain world peace, develop good relations between countries, promote cooperation in solving the world’s problems before they erupted into global warfare.
18. / Fascist party / A system of government that started in Italy and was marked by centralization of authority under a dictator
19. / Nuclear Age / The current era as characterized by the discovery, technological applications, and social and political consequences of nuclear energy
20. / Lend-lease / The act passed during WWII allowing the United States to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered “vital to the defense of the United States”
21. / Pearl Harbor** / The immediate cause for US entry into WWII, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941
22. / Importance of D-Day** / This was the turning point of WWII – AKA Operation Overlord when on June 6, 1944 the Allies invaded Normandy, France to start the liberation of Europe
23. / Munich Conference** / A conference in Sept. 1938 where Hitler assured France & Great Britain that he would take no more territory if they allowed him to have the Sudetenland

Other terms to review:

  • Push Factors
  • Pull Factors

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HMS Social Studies DepartmentRev. 10/14/2018