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Italy invades Ethiopia
Ethiopian king will as the League of Nations for help. The league will seek penalties for violating international law, however, they have no power to enforce these penalties. -
Nisei
Children of Japanese immigrants born and educated in the U.S. -
Arsenal
A government building or buildings where arms and other war supplies are manufactured or stored; also the war supplies themselves -
Fascism
a form of government which is a type of one-party dictatorship. Fascists are against democracy. -
Allies
In WW2, the group of nations originally consisting of Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union and later joined by the U.S. -
Dictorship
A government in which one individual has absolute authority. -
Totalitarian
relating to a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state. -
Aggression
the action or an act of attacking without provocation. -
Appeasement:
The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace -
GI
From “government issue” applied to American soldiers in World War II and later wars -
Executive Order
Emergency rules made by the president which have the power of law -
Internment Camps
Confinement or a restriction in movement especially under wartime conditions; temporary prisons used for Nisei Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor -
Rationing
A restriction of people’s right to buy unlimited amounts of particular foods and other goods, often implemented during wartime to ensure adequate supplies for the military -
Kamikaze
Involving or engaging in the deliberate crashing of a bomb-filled airplane into a military target; often used by Japanese pilots -
Unconditional Surrender
Giving up without any terms or conditions decided upon beforehand -
Neutrality Acts
A series of laws enacted in 1935 and 1936 to prevent U.S. arms sales and loans to nations at war -
Munich Conference
The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation, the "Sudetenland", was coined. -
Germany invades Poland
After heavy shelling and bombing, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27, 1939. Britain and France, standing by their guarantee of Poland's border, had declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. The Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland on September 17, 1939. -
Lend-Lease Act
A law, passed in 1941, that allowed the U.S. to ship arms and other supplies, without immediate payment, to nations fighting the Axis powers -
Axis powers
Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan