Study Guide Era 8 Vocabulary Cards

Question 0

2.What does Zionism mean?

Answer 0

Movement of the Jewish people to Palestine.

Question 1

1.What does Nomad mean?

Answer 1

A person who moves from place to place following seasonal patterns or resources.

Question 2

3.What does Provisional mean?

Answer 2

Transitional or temporary

Question 3

4.What does Bolshevik mean?

Answer 3

Majority

Question 7

8.What does Propaganda mean?

Answer 7

Misleading information used to promote a cause or point of view.

Question 8

9. What does Untermenshen mean?

Answer 8

Sub-humans included several groups of people from Eastern Europe including Polish & Jewish communities.

Question 9

10.What does Anti-Semitism mean?

Answer 9

Prejudice or hostility against Jews

Question 10

11.What does Blitzkrieg mean?

Answer 10

“Lightning warfare” (use speed & surprise as tactics)

Question 11

12.What does Genocide mean?

Answer 11

Systematic killing of a people group

Question 12

13.What does Ghettos mean?

Answer 12

Segregated parts of a city where Jews were forced to live

Question 13

14. What does Marshall Plan mean?

Answer 13

American aid program to Europe to help rebuild European economies after the war

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15.What does Truman Doctrine mean?

Answer 14

Military & economic support for Turkey & Greece by the US to prevent failure that may result in communism

Question 15

16.What does Cold War mean?

Answer 15

The politically hostile conditions that existed between the United States & Soviet Union from 1945-1990

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17.What does Progressive mean?

Answer 16

Government reformers who believed corruption could corrected by moral behavior and good laws

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18.What does Suffrage mean?

Answer 17

Right to vote

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19. What does Isolationism mean?

Answer 18

Stay our of other nations’ affairs except in the defense of the US

Question 19

20.What does Red Scare mean?

Answer 19

Period of fear about the potential spread of communism

Question 20

21.What does The Great Depression mean?

Answer 20

Period of economic hardship in America during the 1930s

Question 21

22.What does New Deal mean?

Answer 21

Roosevelt’s program to end the Great Depression (1933 & 1935)

Question 22

23.What does Welfare mean?

Answer 22

Process by which government takes responsibility for the economic security of its people

Question 23

24.What does Rationing mean?

Answer 23

To give a fixed amount of something

Question 24

25.What does Nisei mean?

Answer 24

Japanese American born in the US

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26. What does Internment camp mean?

Answer 25

Area kept under guard

Question 27

5.What does Fascism mean?

Answer 27

Extreme conservative dictatorship

Question 28

6.What does parliament mean?

Answer 28

Legislative branch of some democracies

Question 29

7.What does reparations mean?

Answer 29

Compension for damage done