Chapter 24- Vocabualry Flashcards

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Totalitarian state

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A nation in witch a single party controls the govt and every part of the people’s lives

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Rationing

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The act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy

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Fascism

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A political system based on militarism and extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the state and its leader

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Aggression

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Warlike acts by one country against another with out cause

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Appeasement

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A policy of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war

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Total war

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Conflict involving entire nations

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Intern

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Temporarily imprison

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Braceros

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Mexican laborers

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Island hopping

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In which American forces would capture Japanese-held island and go around others

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Kamikaze

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Suicide pilots crashed their plans into American ships

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Genocide

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The deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire nation or groups
of people

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War crimes

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Wartime acts of cruelty that r judged to be beyond accepted rules of war and humane behavior

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