Vocab

Question 0

Define Zionism

Answer 0

Movement of the Jewish people to Palestine

Question 1

Define Nomad

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Define Provisional

Answer 2

Transitional or temporary

Question 3

Define Bolsheviks

Answer 3

Majority

Question 4

Define Fascism

Answer 4

Extreme conservative dictatorship

Question 5

Define Reperations

Answer 5

Compensation for damage done

Question 6

Define Propaganda

Answer 6

Misleading info used to promote a cause or point of view

Question 7

Define Untetmenshen

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Define Anti-Semitism

Answer 8

Prejudice or hostility against Jews

Question 9

Define Blitzberg

Answer 9

“Lightening warfare” (use speed and surprise tactics)

Question 10

Define Genocide

Answer 10

Systematic killing of a group of people

Question 11

Define Ghettos

Answer 11

Segregated parts of a city where Jews were forced to live

Question 12

Define Marshall Plan

Answer 12

American Aid program to Europe to help rebuild European economies after war

Question 13

Define Truman Doctrine

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Define Cold War

Answer 14

The politically hostile conditions that existed between the US and Soviet Union from 1945-1990

Question 15

Define Progressive

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Define Suffarage

Answer 16

Right to vote

Question 17

Define Isolationism

Answer 17

Stay out of other nations affairs except in the defense of the US

Question 18

Define Red Scare

Answer 18

Period of fear about the potential spread of communism

Question 19

Define The Great Depression

Answer 19

Period of economic hardship in America during the 1930’s

Question 20

Define New Deal

Answer 20

Roosevelt’s programs to end the Great Depression (1933-1935)

Question 21

Define Welfare

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Define Rationing

Answer 22

To give a fixed amount of something

Question 23

Define Nisei

Answer 23

Japanese Americans born in US

Question 24

Define Internment Camps

Answer 24

Area kept under guard