MPCS S.S ch. 26 terms
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- island hopping
- a strategy that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands
- blitzkrieg
- violent offensive; "lightning war"
- fascism
- extreme nationalism and racism
- totalitarian
- a single party and its leader suppress all opposition and control all aspects of peoples lives
- anti-semitism
- hatred of the Jews
- appeasement
- accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
- D-Day
- Allied ships landed ont the coast of Normandy
- dictator
- leaders who control their nations by force
- Holocaust
- the Nazis killed between 1 and 2 million people; as many as 6 million Jews were killed too
- internment camps
- the detention centers where Japanese Americans were moved to and confined during WWll
- genocide
- wiping out an entire group of people
- disarmament
- giving up military weapons
- kamikazes
- a corps of suicide pilots
- rationed
- to give out scarce items on limited basis
- lendlease
- allows America to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the U.S."
- mobilization
- military and civilian preparations for war