Chapter 24- Vocabualry Flashcards
Totalitarian state
A nation in witch a single party controls the govt and every part of the people’s lives
Rationing
The act of setting limits on the amount of scarce goods people can buy
Fascism
A political system based on militarism and extreme nationalism and blind loyalty to the state and its leader
Aggression
Warlike acts by one country against another with out cause
Appeasement
A policy of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war
Total war
Conflict involving entire nations
Intern
Temporarily imprison
Braceros
Mexican laborers
Island hopping
In which American forces would capture Japanese-held island and go around others
Kamikaze
Suicide pilots crashed their plans into American ships
Genocide
The deliberate attempt to wipe out an entire nation or groups
of people
War crimes
Wartime acts of cruelty that r judged to be beyond accepted rules of war and humane behavior