VOCABULARY by https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg CH.16-17 en-us 2016-11-28 19:25:34 UTC 2023-01-19 06:05:41 UTC hello@padlet.com Totalitarian: Relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311441 2016-11-28 19:28:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311441 Fascism: An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311781 2016-11-28 19:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311781 Nazism: The political principles of the National Socialist German Workers' Party. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311947 2016-11-28 19:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140311947 Neutrality Acts: They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312079 2016-11-28 19:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312079 Appeasement: s a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312228 2016-11-28 19:30:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312228 Non-Aggression Pact: Absence of the desire or intention to be aggressive, especially on the part of nations or governments. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312376 2016-11-28 19:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312376 Blitzkrieg: Is an anglicized term, describing a method of warfare, whereby an attacking force spearheaded by a dense concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312738 2016-11-28 19:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140312738 Holocaust: Also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. The victims included 1.5 million children and represented about two-thirds of the nine million Jews who had resided in Europe. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313024 2016-11-28 19:32:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313024 Kristallnacht: referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, Reichspogromnacht or simply Pogromnacht, and Novemberpogrome, was a pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938, carried out by SA paramilitary forces and German civilians. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313127 2016-11-28 19:32:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313127 Genocide: he deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313465 2016-11-28 19:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313465 Ghetto: Is a part of a city in which members of a minority group live, especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313530 2016-11-28 19:33:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313530 Concentration Camp: Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers, the camps initially held around 45,000 prisoners. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313591 2016-11-28 19:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313591 Axis Powers: lso known as the Axis, were the nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313728 2016-11-28 19:34:04 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313728 Lend-Lease Act: ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313782 2016-11-28 19:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313782 Atlantic Charter: Was a pivotal policy statement issued on 14 August 1941, that, early in World War II, defined the Allied goals for the post-war world. The leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States drafted the work and all the Allies of World War II later confirmed it. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313917 2016-11-28 19:34:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140313917 Allies: he group of nations - including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States - that opposed the Axis powers. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314135 2016-11-28 19:34:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314135 Women's Auxiliary Army Corps: Was the women's branch of the United States Army. It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps on 15 May 1942 by Public Law 554, and converted to full status as the WAC on 1 July 1943. Its first director was Ovate Culp Hobby, a prominent society woman in Texas. The WAC was disbanded in 1978. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314306 2016-11-28 19:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314306 Manhattan Project: Was a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314611 2016-11-28 19:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314611 Office of Price Administration: Was established within the Office for Emergency Management of the United States government by Executive Order 8875 on August 28, 1941. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314800 2016-11-28 19:36:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140314800 War Producing Board: Was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315029 2016-11-28 19:36:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315029 Rationing: Is the controlled distribution of scarce resources, goods, or services, or an artificial restriction of demand. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315271 2016-11-28 19:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315271 D-Day: Were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315331 2016-11-28 19:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315331 Battle of Military: ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315536 2016-11-28 19:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315536 Kamikaze: Were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy warships more effectively than was possible with conventional attacks. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315610 2016-11-28 19:38:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315610 Hiroshima: 1.a city in southwestern Japan, on the southern coast of the island of Honshu; pop. 1,144,572 (2007). It was the target of the first atom bomb, which was dropped by the US on August 6, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of about one third of the city's population of 300,000. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315652 2016-11-28 19:38:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315652 Nagasaki: s the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan. It became a center of Portuguese and Dutch influence in the 16th through 19th centuries, and the Churches and Christian Sites in Nagasaki have been proposed for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Part of Nagasaki was home to a major Imperial Japanese Navy base during the First Sino-Japanese War and Russo-Japanese War. Its name means "long cape". ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315722 2016-11-28 19:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315722 Nuremberg Trials: Were a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany who planned, carried out, or otherwise participated in The Holocaust and other war crimes. The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315976 2016-11-28 19:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140315976 G.I. Bill of Rights: The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 (P.L. 78-346, 58 Stat. 284m), known informally as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s). ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316103 2016-11-28 19:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316103 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE): Is a U.S. civil rights organization that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement. Founded in 1942, CORE was one of the ". Big Four " civil rights organizations, along with the SCLC, the SNCC, and the NAACP. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316457 2016-11-28 19:40:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316457 Internment: is the imprisonment or confinement of people, commonly in large groups, without trial. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316679 2016-11-28 19:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140316679 Battle of the Bulge: Was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140318094 2016-11-28 19:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140318094 V-E Day: Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (7 May in Commonwealth realms) to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany 's unconditional surrender of its armed forces. ixzamanijusto https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140318283 2016-11-28 19:44:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ixzamanijusto/z91o4pelb9cg/wish/140318283