SOCIAL STUDIES GED ACTUAL EXAM 2024-2025
Holocaust - ANS-the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
Axis - ANS-Coalition of countries that
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Joseph Stalin - ANS-dictator of USSR from 1929 to 1953
Nationalism - ANS-A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country
Internment Camp - ANS-Detention centers where more than 100,000 Japanese
Americans were relocated during World War II by order of the President.
Nazi Party - ANS-National Socialist German Worker's Party
Concentration Camp - ANS-a camp where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or
members of minority groups are confined for labor or mass murder
Winston Churchill - ANS-Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII
Einstazgruppen - ANS-mobile killing units, rounded up Jews in their villages,
executed them, and buried them in mass graves
Allies - ANS-Coalition of countries that fought in WWII: Great Britain, France, US
and later USSR
Adolf Hitler - ANS-Austrian-born founder of the German Nazi Party and chancellor
of Germany (1933-1945)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt - ANS-US President 1933-1945
aryanization - ANS-Hitler's plan to create an entire race of Aryans, Jews were fired
from their jobs and expelled from school in order to cleanse the community
Pearl Harbor - ANS-US Naval Base in Hawaii attacked by Japan on December 7,
1941, brought the US into World War 2
Emperor Hirohito - ANS-Emperor of Japan
Anti-Semitism - ANS-Hostility to or prejudice against Jews
Final Solution - ANS-A state-sponsored mass murder of millions of European Jews,
Romani people, intellectually disabled, and political enemies
VE Day - ANS-Victory in Europe, May 8, 1945, Germany surrenders
VJ Day - ANS-Victory in Japan, September 2, 1945, Japan surrenders
Manhattan Project - ANS-Code name for the U.S. effort during World War II to
produce the atomic bomb.
Rosie the Riveter - ANS-Advertising campaign character who encouraged and
recruited women to take factory jobs during World War 2.
Nuremberg Laws - ANS-laws established by the Nazi party in 1935 that began to
cleanse Germany of it's Jewish population
Ghettos - ANS-Sections of towns and cities in which Jews were forced to live.
POW - ANS-Prisoner of War
Benito Mussolini - ANS-Prime Minister and Fascist dictator of Italy from 1919-1945
Chiang Kai-Shek - ANS-President of the Republic of China during World War 2
Charles DeGualle - ANS-Chairman of French Republic during World War 2
Auschwitz-Birkenau - ANS-The largest and most notorious concentration, labor
and death camp where 1.6 million died; located near Oswiecim, Poland.
Hiroshima - ANS-Japanese city that was hit with the first atomic bomb on August 6,
1945
Nagasaki - ANS-Japanese city in which the second atomic bomb was dropped
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