Semester 2 Vocabulary: WWII & Cold War
For each word you will:
1) Rewrite the definition using YOUR words in as few words as possible.
2) Create a nonlinguistic representation of the vocabulary word (picture/graphic
organizer) or describe a memory trick you can use to remember the definition
(rhyme, simile, metaphor, root word, acronym, etc).
DEFINITION
The granting of concessions to a hostile power in order to keep the peace.
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
APPEASEMENT
DEFINITION
A governmental system led by a dictator with a strong central government and
emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
FASCISM
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
DEFINITION
The deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural
group.
GENOCIDE
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
DEFINITION
The state of hostility, without direct military conflict, that developed between the United
States and the Soviet Union after WWII.
COLD WAR
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
DEFINITION
Preoccupation with or emphasis on material objects, comforts, and considerations, with
a disinterest in or rejection of spiritual, intellectual, or cultural values.
MATERIALISM
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
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DEFINITION
McCARTHYISM
The practice of making accusations of disloyalty, esp. of pro-Communist activity, in
many instances unsupported by proof or based on slight, doubtful, or irrelevant
evidence.
3 WORD DEFINITION
GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION/ MEMORY TRICK
Additional words to define:
baby boomer
civil liberties
conformity
foreign policy
internment
neutrality
propaganda
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