5th Grade Social Studies Vocabulary: Chapter 11

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Vocabulary Terms in 5th Grade Social Studies Ch. 11

Internment Camp CommunismPearl Harbor Nuclear WarConcentration Camp Arms RaceAircraft Carrier CapitalismMarket Economy NewsreelAnti-Communism HolocaustAtomic Bomb FascismDictator EditorialMobilize RacismD Day

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

Aircraft carrier

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

Atomic bomb

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

Arms race

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

Nuclear war

Where did the Japanese bomb the US in 1941? (It was the beginning of the US involvement in World

War II.)

Pearl Harbor

What do we call the largest and most powerful sea invasion in history? (The Allies

invaded France.)

D Day

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

Holocaust

What do we call a government that controls production and owns the nation’s natural and

capital resources?

Communism

What do we call a movement to stop communism?

Anti-communism

What do we call a system where people and businesses make most of the economic

decisions?

Market economy

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

services?

Capitalism

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

Concentration camp

What do we call a short news film?

Newsreel

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

Editorial

What do we call getting ready to fight?

Mobilize

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

Racism

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

Dictator

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

Internment camp

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

Fascism