| A | B |
|---|
| liberate liberation | to free |
| logistics | getting supplies (ammunition, food, fresh water) to soldiers who are fighting |
| Luftwaffe | the German Air Force |
| mobilize | to call men to war |
| neutrality neutral | you don't take sides with anyone |
| Palestine | historical & religious home for Jews, Muslims & Christians (set in the Middle East) |
| peacetime | when nations/men are NOT fighting, or mobilizing their troops |
| persecution | to torture, to hurt, to harrass |
| POW | someone captured & held during the war |
| ration | when you are only allowed a limited amount of something |
| saving face | not humiliating someone by giving them an out; |
| scorched earth policy | the Russians did this during World War II; the burnt everything (including their homes) as they retreated so that the Nazis/Germans wouldn't get it |
| secure communications | information passed over telephone lines & computers which the enemy can tap into/intercept or jam/distort |
| segregated | divided, split up |
| Selective Service Act | it said during time of war any man between Ages 21 - 26 could be forced to join the military; note today the Age is 18 |
| sonar | a way of detecting things down in the water |
| totalitarianism | dictatorship, tyranny |
| war bonds | the Federal Govt. sold them to make $$$ and help finance the war |
| war criminals | people who deliberately kill more people than necessary during war - deliberate attempts at genocide or ethnic cleansing |
| Yellow Star of David | Jews were forced to wear this on their clothing during the 1930s and early 1940s in Nazi Germany; used to blatantly discriminate against them |
| Zionism | the belief that Jews should have a homeland & that homeland should be Jerusalem/Palestine - movement founded in late 1800s by Theodore Herzl |
