1. 5 th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary: Chapter 11 Mrs. Thornburg’s version

2. Vocabulary Terms in 5 th Grade Social Studies Ch. 11 Internment CampCommunism Pearl HarborNuclear War Concentration CampArms Race Aircraft CarrierCapitalism Market EconomyNewsreel Anti-CommunismHolocaust Atomic BombFascism DictatorEditorial MobilizeRacism D Day

3. What do we call a large military ship that serves as a home base for an aircraft?

4. Aircraft carrier

5. What do we call a destructive weapon used in World War II?

6. Atomic bomb

7. What do we call a race between nations to build more powerful weapons?

8. Arms race

9. What do we call a war in which nuclear weapons are used?

10. Nuclear war

11. Where did the Japanese bomb the US in 1941? (It was the beginning of the US involvement in World War II.)

12. Pearl Harbor

13. What do we call the largest and most powerful sea invasion in history? (The Allies invaded France.)

14. D Day

15. What do we call the mass murder of 12 million people?

16. Holocaust

17. What do we call a government that controls production and owns the nation’s natural and capital resources?

18. Communism

19. What do we call a movement to stop communism?

20. Anti-communism

21. What do we call a system where people and businesses make most of the economic decisions?

22. Market economy

23. What do we call an economic system in which people and businesses are in control of goods and services?

24. Capitalism

25. What do we call a place where people are held prisoner and forced to work?

26. Concentration camp

27. What do we call a short news film?

28. Newsreel

29. What do we call an article that expresses an opinion about an issue or event?

30. Editorial

31. What do we call getting ready to fight?

32. Mobilize

33. What do we call the idea that a race or group of people is better than others?

34. Racism

35. What do we call a ruler that takes control of a country and its people?

36. Dictator

37. What do we call the place where prisoners are held during wartime?

38. Internment camp

39. What do we call a political system in which the government controls all aspects of life?

40. Fascism