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Unit 7 Vocabulary
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Fascism
▪ A belief that stresses the importance of a nation or ethnic group.
▪ The leader of the group as total control
▪ Created my Mussolini
Nazism
▪ A set of political beliefs associated with the Nazi Party of Germany
▪ Based on extreme racist or authoritarian views or behavior
▪ Used by Hitler during the Third Reich
Totalitarianism
▪ A government that has total control of its people
▪ The state comes before the individual
▪ Leaders use fear to maintain their rule
▪ Major totalitarian rulers during WWII: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin
Appeasement
▪ A strategy used to keep peace by giving into the demands of an
aggressive nation
▪ Used by Great Britain during WWII. They attempted to keep peace in
Europe by giving into the demands of Hitler
▪ Munich Conference- Nevil Chamberlin agreed to give Hitler the
Sudetenland.
▪ The policy proved to be ineffective in keeping peace during WWII.
Non-Aggression Pact
▪ Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the German-Soviet
Nonaggression Pact, in which the two countries agreed to take no
military action against each other for the next 10 years.
▪ The two countries agreed to dived Poland and other parts of Europe
▪ Was violated by Hitler when he sent troops to invade the Soviet
Union.
Neutrality Acts
▪ They were passed by congress in an attempt to keep the U.S. from
entering into WII.
▪ These acts prohibited the sale of arms or of lending $$ to countries
involved in any military action.
▪ Roosevelt was convinced that that the Acts only fueled Axis
aggression.
Office of War Mobilization
▪ Coordinated all government agencies during WWII
▪ Headed by James F. Byrnes
Office of Price Administration
▪ During WWI it attempted to keep inflation in check
▪ It regulated: prices, wages, and rationing
Double V Campaign
▪ The Pittsburgh Courier called for a double victory for AfricanAmericans: End discrimination at home and abroad
▪ Campaigned for racial equality and integration of the armed forces
Tuskegee Airman
▪ The first black servicemen to serve as military aviators in the U.S.
armed forces, flying with distinction during World War II.
Navajo Code Talkers
▪ Navajo Indians who served as Marine during WWII.
▪ They used their native language as a secret code to transmit
messages in the pacific theater.
▪ Their codes were never broken by the enemy.
Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)
▪ The case that challenged the constitutionality of Japanese
internment camps (executive order 9066)
▪ The court upheld that they were justifiable during a time of
“emergency and peril”
Island Hopping
▪ The United State’s strategy for gaining control of the Pacific theater
during WWII.
▪ Key Islands would be captured and used as bases as the U.S. moved
inward to the Japanese mainland.
Kamikaze Pilots
▪ Japanese suicide pilots that would crash their plans into ships in the
Pacific during WWII.
▪ The First Kamikaze Pilots were used in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
General Dwight D. Eisenhower
▪ Supreme commander of Allied forces in Western Europe during World
War II.
▪ He led the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe that began on
D-Day (June 6, 1944).
▪ He later became President of the Untied States
General Douglas MacArthur
▪ General who commanded the Southwest Pacific in World War II
▪ He oversaw the successful Allied occupation of postwar Japan
▪ After being forced to leave the Philippines to Australia after it was
taken over by Japan he famously returned to liberate the Philippines
in 1944.
▪ Fought in the Battle of Leyte Gulf that was key to the liberation of
the Philippines
Admiral Chester Nimitz
▪ Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II
▪ Led the Island Hopping Campaign in the Pacific.