US History Terminology

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The process that allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by their legislature is a ______________________________.

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The procedure that permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election is a ___________________.

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Government funded projects to build public facilities is knows as the ________________________.

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Nazi Germany's systematic attempt to murder all European Jews is the ______________________.

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Information intended to sway public opinion is ________________________.;

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______________________ is a policy of aggressively building up a nation's armed forces in preparation for war, as well as giving the military more authority over the government and foreign policy.

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The 1949 alliance of nations that agreed to band together in the event of war and to support and protect each nation involved is __________________________.

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A _____________________________ is a place where politcal prisoners are confined, usually under harsh conditions.

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_____________________ is a system of government characterized by complete government ownership of land and property, the single-party control of government, the lack of individual rights, and the call for a worldwide revolution.

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The __________________________ is an area of economic and political control exerted by one nation over another nation or other nations.

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______________________ is the organized killing of an entire people.

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A ___________________ government exerts total control over the nation and citizens' lives.

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The Secret American program during World War II to develop an atomic bomb is known as the __________________________.

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The system established by the 1935 Social Security Act to provide financial security, in the form of regular payments, to people who cannot support themselves is the _________________________.

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___________________ is an extreme form of fascism shaped by Adolf Hitler's fanatical ideas about German nationalism and racial superiority.

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The ________________ was the intense fear of communism and other politically radical ideas.

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The ______________________________ is the conflict over the future of the Korean peninsula, fought between 1950 and 1953 ending in a stalemate.

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The period from 1890-1920 in which a variety of reforms were enacted at the local, state, and federal level is known as the ________________________.

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_____________________________ is hositlity or discrimination toward Jews.

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A _____________________ is an American soldier in World War II derived from the term "Government Issue".

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Code name for the allied invasion of France on June 6, 1944 is ___________________.

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Signed in 1919, the ___________________ ended World War I.

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The competition that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union for power and influence in the world, lasting until the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 is known as the ________________________.

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President Franklin Roosevelt's relief, recovery and reform program called the ___________________ is designed to combat the Great Depression is

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_______________________ is the nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change that law.