SS 8 - WW II Vocab
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BTLawrence on December 21, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| appeasement | practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war |
| kamikaze | Pilots who loaded old planes with bombs and then deliberately crashed them into Allied ships |
| radar | an electronic device for tracking objects at a distance |
| Rosie The Riveter | a fictional (female) factory worker |
| totalitarian | a single party controls the government and every aspect of people's lives |
| concentration camps | prison camps for civilians who are considered enemies of the state |
| scapegoat | a person or group on whom to blame their problems |
| aggression | a warlike act by one country against another without just cause |
| dictator | a person who has complete control over a country |
| Nazi | National Socialist Workers Party, Adolf Hitler's followers |
| sabotage | secret attempts at destruction of a nation's production facilities |
| Neutrality Acts | acts that banned arms sales or loans to countries at war (late 1930's) |
| collective farms | government owned farms in the Soviet Union |
| Cash and Carry Laws | US could sell arms to Allies but Allies had to pay cash for the goods and carry the arms in their own ships |
| Lend Lease Act | 1941-FDR could sell or lend war materials to any country fighting for democracy |
| Atlantic Charter | FDR and Churchill's goals for the post war world |
| rationing | limitations on the amounts of certain goods that pople could buy |
| Operation Overlord | code name for D-Day, the invasion of German controlled France (Executed on June 6, 1944) |
| island hopping | a strategy of capturing some Japanese-held islands and going around others |
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