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
Helps inform men and women about political issues
League of women voters
Formed at the end of WWII to keep world peace
United Nations
Helped the US recover from the Great Depression
New Deal
The alliance formed when Japan, Italy and Germany signed a friendship treaty
Axis Powers
The war fought between Great Britain and France against the Axis Powers
World War II
