Chapter 18 Flashcards
A decade of prosperity
roaring twenties
A constitutional amendment that gave women right to vote
nineteenth admendment
helped the US recover from the Great Depression
New Deal
A social and political system in which all property is owned by the government
communism
A place where people are imprisoned during wartime
internment camp
A place where the Germans enslaved and murdered those they considered their enemies
concentration camps
Hitlers attempt to destroy the Jewish people
Holocaust
A war between the US and the Soviet Union fought with ideas, words, money and sometimes violence
Cold War
The imaginary line dividing Europe into communist and noncommunist countries
Iron Curtain
A period of failed businesses and job loss
The Great Depression
A race between the US and the Soviet Union to build the most powerful weapons in the world
Arms race
An unfair difference in treatment of people
discrimination
The world war I alliance that included Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Russia
Allied Powers
The US declared war on this alliance in WWI
Central Powers
Ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
