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Life During and After WWII

Word List with 14 words
By Dictionary.com

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victory garden

A vegetable garden, especially a home garden, cultivated to increase food production during a war or period of shortages.

genocide

The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.

blitzkrieg

A swift intensive military attack, usually using tanks supported by aircraft, designed to defeat the opposition quickly.

holocaust

The systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Nanking Massacre

A massacre in which several hundred thousand Chinese civilians were raped and murdered by Japanese troops.

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reparations

The making of amends for wrong or injury done.

Marshall Plan

European Recovery Program; called for the U.S. Congress to allocate billions of dollars for the reconstruction of Europe.

manufacturing

The making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale.

United Nations

An international organization, with headquarters in New York City, formed to promote international peace, security, and cooperation under the terms of the charter signed by 51 founding countries in San Francisco in 1945.

cold war

Intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict; sustained hostile political policies and an atmosphere of strain between opposed countries.

women in the workforce

A phenomenon that increased during WWII as women took the place of many men during the war years.

atomic bomb

A bomb whose potency is derived from nuclear fission of atoms of fissionable material with the consequent conversion of part of their mass into energy.

pacifism

Opposition to war or violence of any kind.

nihilism

An extreme form of skepticism; the denial of all real existence or the possibility of an objective basis for truth.