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| 6427506615 | Appeasement | policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep peace |  | 0 |
| 6427506616 | Anti-semitism | prejudice against the Jews |  | 1 |
| 6427506617 | blitzkrieg | German term meaning "lightning war" Germany's novel military tactics in WWII, which involved the rapid movement of infantry, tanks, and airpower over large areas |  | 2 |
| 6427506618 | Churchill, Winston | Prime Minister of Britain during WWII; rallied the British people to resist Hitler and the Nazis |  | 3 |
| 6427506619 | Etty Hillusum | A Dutch Jewish woman 1914-1943, who was murdered in the Holocaust. Her letters provide a remarkable record of her inner life during the difficult period of Nazi occupation, casting light on the possibilities of human transformation even amid the most horrendous of circumstances |  | 4 |
| 6427506620 | European Economic Community | the EEC (alsoo known as the Common Market) was an alliance formed by Italy, France, West Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in 1957 and dedicated to developing common trade policies and reduced tariffs; it gradualy developed into the European Union |  | 5 |
| 6427506621 | European Union | increase cooperation between European states in the wake of WWII; the EU was formally established in 1994, and twelve of its members adopted a common currency in 2002 |  | 6 |
| 6427506622 | fascism | politically ideologically marked by its intense nationalism and authoritarianism; its name is derived from the fasces that were the symbol of magistrates in Ancient Rome |  | 7 |
| 6427506623 | flappers | middle-class women who emerged as a new form of social expression after WWI, flouting conventions and advocating a more open sexuality |  | 8 |
| 6427506624 | Fourteen Points | Plan of US president Woodrow Wilson to establish lasting peace at the end of WWI; although Wilson's views were popular in Europe, his vision largely failed |  | 9 |
| 6427506625 | Franco-Prussian War | German war with France(1870-1871) that ended with the defeat of France and the unification of Germany into a single state under Prussian rule |  | 10 |
| 6427506626 | Franz Ferdinand, Archduke | heir to the Austrian throne whose assassination by a Serbian nationalist on June 28, 1914, was the spark that ignited WWI |  | 11 |
| 6427506627 | Great Depression | worldwide economic depression that began in 1929 with the New York stock market crash and continued in many areas until the outbreak of WWII |  | 12 |
| 6427506628 | Great War | name orignially given to the First World War (1914-1918) |  | 13 |
| 6427506629 | Hitler, Adolf | leader of the German Nazi Party91889-1945) and Germany's head of state from 1933 until his death |  | 14 |
| 6427506630 | Hirohito, emperor | Emperor who forced the Japanese government to surrender, which ended WWII |  | 15 |
| 6427506631 | Holocaust | name commonly used to for the Nazi genocide of Jews and other "undesirables" in German society; Jews themselves prefer the term Shoah, which means "catastrophe," rather than Holocaust ("offering" or "sacrifice"). |  | 16 |
| 6427506632 | Kristallnacht | literally, "crystal night"; name given to the night of November 9, 1938, when Nazi-led gangs smashed and looted Jewish shops throughout Germany. |  | 17 |
| 6427506633 | League of Nations | international peacekeeping organization created after WWI; first proposed by US presidet Woodrow Wilson as part of his Fourteen Points |  | 18 |
| 6427506634 | Manchukuo | Japanese puppet state established in Manchuria in 1931 |  | 19 |
| 6427506635 | Marshall Plan | huge US government initiative to aid in the post-World War II restoration of Europe that was masterminded by US secretary of state George Marshall and put into effect in 1847 |  | 20 |
| 6427506636 | Mussolini, Benito | charismatic leader of the Italian fascist party (1883-1945) who came to power in 1922 |  | 21 |
| 6427506637 | Nanking, Rape of | the Japanese army's systematic killing, mutilation, and rape of the Chinese civilian population of Nanjing in 1938 |  | 22 |
| 6427506638 | NATO | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military and political alliance founded in 1949 that committed the Untied States to the defense of Europe in the event of Soviet aggression |  | 23 |
| 6427506639 | Nazi Germany | Germany as ruled by Hitler and the Nazi Party from 193 to 1945, a fascist state dedicated to extreme nationalism, territorial expansion, and the purification of the German state |  | 24 |
| 6427506640 | Nazi Party | properly known as the National Socialist Democratic Workers' Party, the Nazi party was founded in Germany shortly after WWI and advocated a strongly authoritarian and nationalist regime based on notions of racial superiority |  | 25 |
| 6427506641 | New Deal | a series of reforms enacted by Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goals of ending the Great Depression |  | 26 |
| 6427506642 | Nuremberg Laws | series of laws passed by the Nazi-dominated German parliament in 1935 that forbade sexual relations between Jews and other Germans and mandated that Jews identify themselves in public by wearing the Star of David |  | 27 |
| 6427506643 | Revolutionary Right (Japan) | also known as Radical Nationalism, this was a movement in Japanese political life 1930-1945 that was marked by extreme nationalism, a commitment to elite leadership focused around the emperor and dedication to foreign expansion |  | 28 |
| 6427506644 | Third Reich | a grand empire of the German people; Hitler believed the German master race would dominate Europe for 1,000 years |  | 29 |
| 6427506645 | total war | war that requires each country involved to moblize its entire population in the effort to defeat the enemy |  | 30 |
| 6427506646 | Totalitarian State | government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizen's lives |  | 31 |
| 6427506647 | Treaty of Versailles | 1919 treaty that officially ended WWI; the immense penalties it placed on Germany are regarded as one of the causes of WWII |  | 32 |
| 6427506648 | Triple Alliance | an alliance consisting of Germany, Austria, and Italy that was of the two rival European alliances on the eve of WWI |  | 33 |
| 6427506649 | Triple Entente | An alliance consisting of Russia, France, and Britain, that was one of the two rival European alliances on the evve of WWI |  | 34 |
| 6427506650 | United Nations | international peacekeeping organization and forum for international opinion, established in 1945 |  | 35 |
| 6427506651 | Weimar Republic | the weak government that replaced the German imperial state at the end of WWI, its failure to take strong action against war reparations and the Great Depression provided an opportunity for the Nazi Party's rise to power |  | 36 |
| 6427506652 | Wilson, Woodrow | President of United States from 1913-1921 who was especially noted for his idealistic approach to the end of WWI, which included advocacy of his Fourteen Points intended to regulate future international dealings and a Leagues of Nations to enforce a new international order. Although his vision largely failed, Wilson was widely respected for his views |  | 37 |
| 6427506653 | World War I | the "Great War" 1914-1918, in essence a European civil war with global implications that was marked by massive casualties, the expansion of offensive military technology beyond tactics and means of defenses, and a great deal of disillusionment with the whole ideas of "progress" |  | 38 |
| 6427506654 | World War II in Asia | a struggle essentially to halt Japanese imperial expansion in Asia, fought by the Japanese against primarily Chinese and American foes |  | 39 |
| 6427506655 | World War II in Europe | a struggle essentially to halt German imperial expansion in Europe, fought by a coalition of allies that included Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the US |  | 40 |
| 6427506656 | Zaibatsu | the huge industrial enterprises that dominated the Japanese economy in the period leading up to World War II |  | 41 |
