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| 9558187065 | National Soviet (Nazi) Party | Founded by Adolf Hitler in the period of the Great Depression in Germany. | 0 | |
| 9558187066 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during World War ll; exemplified British determination to resist Germany. | 1 | |
| 9558187067 | Blitzkrieg | German term meaning lightning warfare; involved rapid movement of troops and tanks. | 2 | |
| 9558187068 | Vichy | Collaborationist French Government established at Vichy in 1940 following defeat by Germany. | 3 | |
| 9558187069 | Battle of Britain | British defeat of the Nazi air offensive. | 4 | |
| 9558187070 | Holocaust | Germany's attempted extermination of European Jews and others; 12 million, including 6 million Jews,died. | 5 | |
| 9558187071 | Battle of the Bulge | Failed Nazi effort in 1943-1945 to repel invading allied armies. | 6 | |
| 9558187072 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii attacked by Japan in December 1941; caused American entry into World War ll. | 7 | |
| 9558187073 | Battles of the Coral Sea | ww2 pacific battle; united states and Japanese force fought to a standoff | 8 | |
| 9558224433 | Midway Island | WW2 pacific battle, decisive US victory over powerful Japanese carrier | 9 | |
| 9558187074 | United Nations | Global organization, founded by the Allies following World War ll. | 10 | |
| 9558187075 | Teheran Conference (1944) | meeting between the leaders of the United States, Britain, and the soviet Union; decided to open a new front against Germany in France; gave the Russians a free hand in eastern Europe. | 11 | |
| 9558187076 | Yalta Conference (1945) | agreed-upon Soviet entry into the war against Japan, organization of the United Nations; left eastern Europe to the soviet union. | 12 | |
| 9558187077 | Potsdam Conference (1945) | meeting between the leaders of the United States, Bitain, and the Soviet Union in 1945; the allies accepted Soviet control of eastern Europe; Germany and Austria were divided among the victors. | 13 | |
| 9558187078 | Total War | Ware fare of the 20th century; vast resources and emotional commitments of belligerent nations were marshaled to support military effort reflecting technological innovation and organizational capacity. | 14 | |
| 9558187079 | Atlantic Charter | 1941 pact between the United States and Britain; gave Britain a strong ally; in return the document contained a clause recognizing the right of all people to select their own government. | 15 | |
| 9558187080 | Quit India movement | mass civil disobedience campaign against the British rulers of India in 1942. | 16 | |
| 9558187081 | Muslim League | Indian organization that emerged at the end of World War ll; backed Britain in the war. | 17 | |
| 9558187082 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim Indian nationalist; leader of the Muslim League; worked for a separate Muslim state; first president of Pakistan. | 18 | |
| 9558187083 | Convention Peoples Party (CCP) | political party established by Kwame Nkrumah in opposition to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast. | 19 | |
| 9558187084 | Jomo Kenyatta | leader of Kenyan African Union, a nationalist party; became first president of independence Kenya in 1962. | 20 | |
| 9558187085 | Kenya African Union (KAU) | leading nationalist party in Kenya; adopted nonviolent approach to ending British control in the 1950's. | 21 | |
| 9558187086 | Land Freedom Army | Kenyan underground group, led by radicals from the Kenyan African Union; engage in terrorist acts against British and other opponents. | 22 | |
| 9558187087 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Algerian nationalist movement that launched a guerrilla war during the 1950's; gained independence for Algeria in 1962. | 23 | |
| 9558187088 | Secret Army Organization (OAS) | Algerian settler group opposed to independence from France; gained strength in France. | 24 | |
| 9558187089 | Afrikaner National Party | became the majority in the all-white South Africa legislature in 1948; worked to form that rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid. | 25 | |
| 9558187090 | Apartheid | Policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically. | 26 | |
| 9558191333 | Haganah | Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine in the 1940's | 27 |
