TCUSH WWII vocab words

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  1. imperialism
    a policy of extending your rule over foreign countries
  2. alliance
    an agreement establishing an association between groups
  3. nationalism
    the doctrine that your country's interests are superior
  4. Woodrow Wilson
    28th President of the United States
  5. League of Nations
    an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; although suggested by Woodrow Wilson, the United States never joined and it remained powerless; it was dissolved in 1946 after the United Nations was formed
  6. Treaty of Versailles
    the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans
  7. reparation
    compensation exacted from a defeated nation by the victors
  8. aggression
    a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack
  9. isolationism
    a policy of nonparticipation in international relations
  10. Joseph Stalin
    Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)
  11. totalitarianism
    the principle of unrestricted power in government
  12. Benito Mussolini
    Italian fascist dictator (1883-1945)
  13. fascism
    a political theory advocating an authoritarian government
  14. Adolf Hitler
    German Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)
  15. Nazism
    a form of socialism featuring racism and expansionism and obedience to a strong leader
  16. Winston Churchill
    British statesman and leader during World War II
  17. appeasement
    the act of acceding to demands
  18. Holocaust
    the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime
  19. ghetto
    the restricted quarter of European cities where Jews lived
  20. concentration camp
    a place where persecuted groups are forcibly confined
  21. final solution
    the mass murder of Jews under the German Nazi regime
  22. Axis
    in World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations
  23. Allies
    in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers
  24. Pearl Harbor
    a harbor on Oahu to the west of Honolulu
  25. ration
    a fixed portion that is allotted
  26. Dwight D. Eisenhower
    United States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany; 34th President of the United States (1890-1961)
  27. Stalingrad
    a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga
  28. Battle of the Bulge
    a battle during World War II
  29. D-day
    date of the Allied landing in France, World War II
  30. Harry S Truman
    elected vice president in Roosevelt's 4th term
  31. Douglas MacArthur
    United States general who served as chief of staff and commanded Allied forces in the South Pacific during World War II; he accepted the surrender of Japan (1880-1964)
  32. Bataan
    the peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II; United States forces surrendered in 1942 and recaptured the area in 1945
  33. Battle of Midway
    naval battle of World War II
  34. Iwo Jima
    the largest of the Volcano Islands of Japan
  35. Okinawa
    the largest island of the central Ryukyu Islands
  36. kamikaze
    a pilot trained and willing to cause a suicidal crash
  37. Manhattan Project
    code name for the secret United States project set up in 1942 to develop atomic bombs for use in World War II
  38. Hiroshima
    a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan
  39. Nagasaki
    a city in southern Japan on Kyushu
  40. Yalta Conference
    a conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe
Created on Fri Jan 25 17:33:10 EST 2013 (updated Fri Jan 25 17:34:32 EST 2013)

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