Keywords - L-M

Question 1

Labour battalions

Answer 1

Troops who worked in construction or loading or transportation of equipment rather than serving in combat.

Question 2

Labour intensive crops

Answer 2

Cotton and tobacco required more workers than other crops because machinery could not always be used.

Question 3

Labour unions

Answer 3

US term for a trade union formed to look after the interest of its members.

Question 4

Laissez-faire

Answer 4

A policy of no direct government interference in the economy.

Question 5

Manhattan Project

Answer 5

A research and development project that produced the first atomic bombs during WW2.

Question 6

Mechanisation

Answer 6

The use of machines.

Question 7

Middle America

Answer 7

The traditional or conservative people of the middle class in the US.

Question 8

Military-industrial complex

Answer 8

A network of individuals and institutions involved in the production of weapons and military technologies.

Question 9

Mobilisation

Answer 9

Gearing out the country for war, including recruiting, equipping and transporting the military.

Question 10

Munich Agreement

Answer 10

This was signed in September 1938 by Britain, France, Germany and Italy. It allowed Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia.