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Allied powers
26 nations led by the US great britain and the Soviet union, who fought the axis powers in WWII
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appeasemant
an attempt to preserve peace by yielding to the demands of the aggression
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Axis powers
WWII alliance between Germany Italy and Japan
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Blitz Krieg
German for lightning war; a type of warfare using rapidly moving tanks and infantry supported by air power
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Concentration camp
a camp where large numbers of political enimies prisoners of war or members of a minority groups were held by the govt.
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Conscientious objector
a person who objects to fighting a war for moral/religious reasons
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D-Day
June 6, 1944; all troops invade France at Normandy
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Dictator
a leader who has complete control of a country
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draft
the selection of a person to serve in the military
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fascism
a politicial system in which the state or govt is seen more important than the individual
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final solution
a nazi plan to annihilate the jews
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Genocide
Geno-race cide-killing
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Ghetto
a section of a ciry where racial or other minority groups are crouded together
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holocause
attempted extermination of all jews during WWII mass murder 6 million jews
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Island hopping
a plan to invade only larger Japanese held islands
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Kamikaze
japanese suicide against allied shipos in the pacific
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Kristullnacht
Nazi sponsored program led rundalism of jewish shops and synagogs 10,000 jews arrested
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National socialist german workers party
the nazy party
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Nisei
second generation Japanese Americans
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Manhattan project
US effort to build an atomic bomb
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tota liturgism
form of govt every aspect of citizens lives are controlled by govt
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operation overlord
codename for cross channel invasion of France during WWII
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scapegoat
an individual or group of people blamed for action of others
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underground
going into hiding also term for a group acting in secret to oppose govt and resist the occupation
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rationing
limitations placed on certain scarce goods
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Propaganda
info designed to influence thingking of behavior
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