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Vocab Notecards Era 8 Flashcards

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Progressive

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

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Suffrage

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Right to vote

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Isolationism

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

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Red Scare

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Period of fear about the potential spread of communism

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The Great Depression

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Period of economic hardship in America during the 1930s

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New Deal

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Roosevelt’s programs to end the Great Depression

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Welfare

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

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Rationing

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To give a fixed amount of something

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Nisei

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Japaneese Americans born in the US

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Internment Camp

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Area kept under gaurd

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Provisional

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Trainsitional or temporary

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Bolshevik

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Majority

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Fascism

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Extreme conservative dictatorship

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Parliament

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Legislative branch of some democracies

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Reparations

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Compensation for damage done

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Propaganda

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Misleading information used to promote a cause or point of view

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Untermenshen

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

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Anti-Semitism

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Prejudice or hostility against Jews

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Blitzkrieg

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

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Genocide

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Systemic killing of a people group

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Ghettos

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segregated parts of a city where Jews were forced to live

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Marshall Plan

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

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Truman Doctrine

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

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Cold War

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

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Nomad

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

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Zionism

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Movement of the Jewish people to Palestine

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