Unit 7 Key Terms

Series of acts from 1935 to 1939 to restrict the sale of weapons to try to keep the US out of WW2

• Lend-Lease Acts

• Imperialist Acts

• Isolation Acts

• Neutrality Acts

Act allowing the US to provide significant military supplies and other assistance such as food and oil to the Allies

• Destroyers For Bases Act

• Lend-Lease Act

• Isolationist Act

• Neutrality Act

The deliberate murder of the Jews by the Nazis in the years before and during WW2

• Death Camps

• Concentration Camps

• Holocaust

• Auschwitz

“Lightning war” in German, it describes the fast-paced style of offensive the Nazi military imposed on Britain and France

• Blitzkrieg

• Lebenshraum

• Kristallnacht

• Auschwitz

“Night of broken glass” where Nazis destroyed Jewish homes, synagogues, and businesses.

• Lebenshraum

• Auschwitz

• Kristallnacht

• Blitzkrieg

The belief that the government is more important than the individual. Strongly anti-communist. Practiced by Germany and Italy

• Fascism

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Commmunism

Great Britain, France, eventually the US

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

• Super Powers

• Axis Powers

Germany, Italy, Japan

• Allied Powers

• Super Powers

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

Making material or political consolations to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict. Practiced by Britain and France that allowed Hitler to invade neighboring countries.

• Appeasement

• Isolationism

• Interventionism

• Pacifism

Required all men between the ages of 21 & 45 to register for the draft. First peacetime draft in American history.

• Selective Service Act of 1917

• Selective Service Act of 1940

• Military Draft Act

• Army Draft Act