13.6: Key Terms
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- Atlantic Charter
- a statement of British and U.S. goals and objectives for the world after World War II; negotiated by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt
- ENIAC
- the first programmable electronic digital computer, built by the United States during World War II
- Executive Order 9066
- a presidential order that led to relocation and internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war
- Final Solution
- the Nazi plan to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe; developed by senior bureaucrats at the Wannsee Conference
- German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
- a 1939 agreement between Germany and the USSR in which the two nations agreed not to attack one another or to assist other nations in attacking the other and to divide portions of eastern Europe between them
- Holocaust
- the Nazi genocide that resulted in the murder of more than six million Jewish people and at least three million members of other, non-Jewish minority groups
- Lebensraum
- a German term meaning “living room” and referring to lands seized from countries in eastern Europe in which Adolf Hitler envisioned settling German families to supplant the native Slavic populations
- Lend-Lease Act
- U.S. legislation enacted to provide military assistance to nations important to its defense
- Manhattan Project
- the U.S. project to build an atomic bomb
- Munich Pact
- an agreement reached in 1938 in which Czechoslovakia granted territorial concessions to Germany, Poland, and Hungary in the hopes that Adolf Hitler would cease his aggressions
- Nuremberg Laws
- a series of laws promulgated in Germany in 1935, institutionalizing Nazi racial theories and discrimination against Jewish people
- Nuremberg Trials
- the formal postwar prosecution of German war crimes
- Percentages Agreement
- the agreement between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin about how to divide political influence in Eastern Europe after the war
- Trinity Test
- the first successful U.S. test of an atomic bomb