| A | B |
|---|
| self-determination | the right of national groups to set up independent nations |
| nationalists | a person fighting for independence |
| Zionism | European Jews who were facing harsh anti-jewish programs in Russia who wanted to reestablish a Jewish national homeland in Palestine |
| Home Rule | self-government |
| Amritsar Massacre | british troops fired into a trapped crowd in India to show their authority |
| civil disobediance | the refusal to obey laws that are considered unjust in a nonviolent way |
| warlords | chinese military leaders who divided the vast country among themselves |
| Guomindang | The Chinese Nationalist Party |
| Long March | Mao led the retreat from Jiangxi that went on for about a year and covered about 6,000 miles |
| militarism | national policy based on military strength and glorification of war |
| collective security | what's needed to defend their common interests against enemy attack |
| sanctions | measures designed to stop trade and other economic contaccts restrictions |
| Anschluss | unifying all German speaking people, a combination of Germanyand Austria forming a single nation |
| appeasement | granting concessions to maintain peace |
| Luftwaffe | German Air Force |
| Blitzkreig | "lightning war", a new german strategy aimed at taking the enemy by surprise |
| cash-and-carry policy | a program in which Great Britain traded cash for desperately needed supplies |
| lend-lease | authorized the president to lend war equipment to any country whose defense he deemed vital to the national security of the united states |
| scorched-earth policy | Stalin's order for the Soviet people to destroy buildings, land, and anything that Nazi invaders could use |
| ghetto | specialized designated areas of towns and cities that were unsanitary and contagious diseases spread rapidly |
| Holocaust | name given to the Nazis' mass murder of European Jews in WWII |
| Genocide | deliberate attempt to kill all members of a racial, cultural, or ethnic group |
| kamikaze | japanese pilots who volunteered for suicide missions, crashing their bomb-laden aircraft into allied bases and ships |
| resistance | underground organization that supports their native government and went against the opposing, controlling army |
| partisan | resistance fighters |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944 (Day of Attack) convoys carrying troops and equipment sailed across the English Channel to the French Province of Normandy |
| Zaibatsu | most of the Japanese economy was in the hands of large privately owned businesses known together as this |
| Good Neighbor Policy | renounced past US military intervention in the region, ended American restrictions on the soverighty of Cuba, and ordered the withdrawal of american troops from Haiti and Nicaragua |
| Clement Attlee | replaced Churchill as Prime Minister halfway through the conference |
| Balfour Declaration | statement issued by the british government favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the jews but w/o prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-jewish communities in palestine |
| Nehru | Hindu political leader in India |
| Mahatma | a person who is held in the highest esteem for wisdom and saintliness |
| Stock Market Crash | production and economic slump |
| Muslim | of or pertaining to the religion, law, or civilization of Islam |
| Hindu | common religion of Northern India |
| Leap Frogging/ Island Hopping | to travel from island to island skipping a few but visiting them in the same chain or area |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| ultimatum | a final proposal or statement of conditions |
| loyalist | one who maintains loyalty to an established government, political party, or sovereign, especially during war or revolutionary change |
| judaism, Islam/Muslim, Christianity | Three religions in Conflict |
