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63414791appeasementSatisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.0
63414792blitzkrieg"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland n 19391
63414793collaboratoran associate who works with others toward a common goal2
63414794cold warA conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted eachother on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years.3
63414795containmenta policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate pecefully4
63414796pacifismopposition to war or violence5
63414797genocidesystematic killing of a racial or cultural group6
63414798Holocaustthe Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler7
63414799kamikazea fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II8
63414800Winston ChurchillBritain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid9
63414801Harry Trumanelected Vice President in Roosevelt's 4th term10
63414802Allied PowersGreat Britain, France, Italy, Russia, and later the US11
63414803Franklin D. RooseveltPresident of the US during Great Depression and World War II12
63414804StalinRussian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition (1879-1953)13
63414805Pearl HarborUnited States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.14
63414806Axisin World War II the alliance of Germany and Italy in 1936 which later included Japan and other nations15
63414807Haile Selassieemperor of Ethiopia16
63414808Francisco FrancoSpanish general whose armies took control of Spain in 1939 and who ruled as a dictator until his death (1892-1975)17
63414809Marshall Plana United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)18
63414810The Big ThreeNickname of the leaders for the Allies19
63414811Hiroshimaa port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan20
63414812Hirohitoemperor of Japan who renounced his divinity and became a constitutional monarch after Japan surrendered at the end of World War II (1901-1989)21
63414813Dwight EisenhowerUnited States general who supervised the invasion of Normandy and the defeat of Nazi Germany22
63414814Adolf HitlerGerman Nazi dictator during World War II (1889-1945)23
63414815D-Dayplanned June 5th June 6 1944 Germans occupied Normandy France Germans though it would occur at Calais and goal was to liberate Paris24
63414816Sudetenlandan area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler25

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