Unit 5 Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. the assembling of troops and equipment for war
  2. 7. This theory assumed that each superpower had enough nuclear weaponry to destroy the other. If one superpower attempted a first strike on the other, they themselves would also be destroyed.
  3. 11. legislation passed by Congress in 1941 adopting a plan to lend arms to Britain
  4. 13. It was the first instance of the Supreme Court applying the strict scrutiny standard to racial discrimination by the government
  5. 14. hydrogen bomb is a second-generation nuclear weapon design
  6. 16. The order led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
  7. 18. keep the United States out of war, by making it illegal for Americans to sell or transport arms, or other war materials to belligerent nations.
  8. 19. yielding to an enemy's demands in order to maintain peace
  9. 20. Since U.S. policy toward Korea during World War II had aimed to prevent any single power's domination of Korea, it may be reasonably concluded that the principal reason for the division was to stop the Soviet advance south of the 38th parallel.
  10. 23. The War Production Board was an agency of the United States government that supervised war production during World War II
Down
  1. 1. intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.
  2. 2. The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies
  3. 3. military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists.
  4. 4. "lightning war," the German military strategy during World War II of attacking without warning
  5. 6. The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of African American military pilots and airmen who fought in World War II.
  6. 8. a political movement based on an extreme nationalism in which the state comes first and individual liberty is secondary
  7. 9. Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, Nordicism, social Darwinism and the use of eugenics into its creed.
  8. 10. Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
  9. 12. a drive to promote the fight for democracy in overseas campaigns and at the home front in the United States for African Americans during World War II.
  10. 15. It became known as the Marshall Plan, named for Secretary of State George Marshall, who in 1947 proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
  11. 17. the glorification of military power and values
  12. 21. The Molotov Plan was the system created by the Soviet Union in 1947 in order to provide aid to rebuild the countries in Eastern Europe that were politically and economically aligned to the Soviet Union
  13. 22. The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler
  14. 24. During the Cold War, the Iron Curtain was a political metaphor used to describe the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.