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| 4217858632 | Allies | US, Great Britain, USSR, Canada, Free French | 0 | |
| 4217858633 | Axis | Germany, Japan, Italy, Ireland | 1 | |
| 4217858634 | Appeasment | To give a group, country, or person what they want in order to avoid war(the League was constantly appeasing Hitler). | 2 | |
| 4217858635 | Demilitarized Zone | An area in which it is forbidden to station military forces or maintain military installations. | 3 | |
| 4217858636 | Blitzkrieg | A German term for "lightning war," it is a military tactic designed to create disorganization among enemy forces through the use of mobile forces and locally concentrated firepower. Its successful execution results in short military campaigns, which preserves human lives and limits the expenditure of artillery. | 4 | |
| 4217858637 | Luftwaffe | Tested out in Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, it's the official name for the Nazi air force founded in 1935. | 5 | |
| 4217858638 | Vichy France | The Franco-German Armistice of June 22, 1940, divided France into two zones: one to be under German military occupation and one to be left to the French in full sovereignty, at least nominally. | 6 | |
| 4217858639 | Nonaggression Pact | The USSR and Germany made a pact to not to fight if one goes to war and to split Poland, giving Germany the leeway to invade Poland. | 7 | |
| 4217858640 | Holocaust | Nazi genocide aimed towards Jewish people where millions were killed. | 8 | |
| 4217858641 | Nazi | National Socialist Party, often described as racist and typically their gaining of power is due to violence. | 9 | |
| 4217858642 | Totalitarian | A single party with a dictator, censorship, the state controls the economy, the government has monopolies and an unquestioning obedience to one ruler. | 10 | |
| 4217858643 | Fascist | A dictator as a leader, and limited capitalism are both a part of fascism; the basis of fascism is that the nation is held above the individual. | 11 | |
| 4217858644 | Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people. | 12 | |
| 4217858645 | Internment | The evacuation order commenced the round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment camps—officially called "relocation centers"—in California, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas. | 13 | |
| 4217858646 | Kamikaze | A Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target. | 14 | |
| 4217858647 | "Comfort Women" | Women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army before and during World War II, provided to Japan's troops. | 15 | |
| 4217858648 | Hitler | Hitler was a racist, charismatic dictator from the Nazi party who was responsible for the holocaust. | 16 | |
| 4217858649 | Mussolini | Mussolini was a fascist dictator in Italy. He was also charismatic, and used violence to gain support. He was also focused on expanding and did not respect the League of Nations. | 17 | |
| 4217858650 | Stalin | He was the communist USSR leader during WWII. He made a pact with Germany to split Poland; however, Germany later broke the pact. | 18 | |
| 4217858651 | Roosevelt | He was an American President both during the Depression and WWII. During the Depression, he sponsored bills referred to as the New Deal that helped in leading the US out of the Great Depression. | 19 | |
| 4217858652 | Chamberlain | A part of the League of Nations, he was the British Prime Minister who continuously decided to appease Hitler, for fear of another war until WWII. | 20 | |
| 4217858653 | Churchill | He became the Prime Minister during WWII and is regarded as one of the best wartime leaders. | 21 | |
| 4217858654 | Tojo | He was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II. | 22 | |
| 4217858655 | Hirohito | He was the 124th Emperor of Japan during WWII. | 23 | |
| 4217858656 | Truman | He was a US President during WWII after Roosevelt died, and he later created the Truman Doctrine. | 24 | |
| 4217858657 | The Manhattan Project | A project begun by the US to create the worlds first atomic bomb. | 25 | |
| 4217858658 | Francisco Franco | He began a Fascist party in Spain; the Spanish Civil War was his rise to power. | 26 | |
| 4217858659 | Weimar Republic | The democracy in Germany considered weak, and soon replaced by a dictator and the fascist government system. | 27 | |
| 4217858660 | Manchuria | Japan seized Manchuria, and in doing so showed the weakness of the League of Nations. | 28 | |
| 4217858661 | Rhineland | A demilitarized zone, Germany had political control of this area, but they were not allowed to put any troops into it. In March 1936, Hitler took what for him was a huge gamble - he ordered that his troops should openly re-enter the Rhineland thus breaking the terms of Versailles once again. He did order his generals that the military should retreat out of the Rhineland if the French showed the slightest hint of making a military stand against him. This did not occur. Over 32,000 soldiers and armed policemen crossed into the Rhineland | 29 | |
| 4217858662 | Sudetenland | The German name to refer to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by German speakers. | 30 | |
| 4217858663 | Lebensraum | Additional territory considered by a nation, especially Nazi Germany, to be necessary for national survival or for the expansion of trade. | 31 | |
| 4217858664 | Pearl Habor | A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base. | 32 | |
| 4217858665 | Dresden | During the final months of World War II, Allied forces bombed the historic city, located in eastern Germany. The bombing was controversial because it was neither important to German wartime production nor a major industrial center, and before the massive air raid of February 1945 it had not suffered a major Allied attack. By February 15, the city was a smoldering ruin and an unknown number of civilians—estimated at somewhere between 35,000 and 135,000-were dead. | 33 | |
| 4217858666 | Stalingrad | A major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. | 34 | |
| 4217858667 | Normandy | Nazi Germany had taken this part of France, which was later liberated on D-Day | 35 | |
| 4217858668 | Nagasaki | On August 9, 1945(three days after Hiroshima), a second B-29 dropped another atomic bomb, killing an estimated 40,000 people. | 36 | |
| 4217858669 | Hiroshima | On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb. The explosion wiped out 90 percent of the city and immediately killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. | 37 | |
| 4217858670 | The Battle of Iwo Jima | A major battle in which the United States Armed Forces landed and eventually captured the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. | 38 | |
| 4217858671 | Poland | Germany made a deal with the USSR to split the country and later invaded; starting WWII. | 39 | |
| 4217858672 | Austria | Austria and Germany were joined March 12, 1938 in what was called an Anschluss. | 40 | |
| 4217858673 | Czechoslovakia | On March 15, 1939 Germany got the country due to the Munich Pact, which was created to keep the peace. | 41 | |
| 4217858674 | D-Day | June 6, 1944; Allied troops invaded and liberated Normandy and began pushing back against German forces, later liberating Paris(in August). | 42 | |
| 4217858675 | Midway | The United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan's planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. | 43 | |
| 4217858676 | Nanjing(the Nanjing Massacre, the Rape of Nanjing) | An episode during WWII of mass murder and mass rape by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China. The massacre occurred over six weeks starting December 13, 1937, the day that the Japanese captured Nanjing. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered an estimated 40,000 to over 300,000 Chinese civilians and disarmed combatants, and perpetrated widespread rape and looting. | 44 | |
| 4217858677 | Island Hopping | A military strategy employed by the Allies in the Pacific War against Japan and the Axis powers during World War II. | 45 | |
| 4217858678 | Nuremberg Trials | The purpose was to demonstrate how crimes against humanity were punished, through a series of trials for war crimes committed by Nazi leaders. | 46 | |
| 4217858679 | Oppenheimer | He is often referred to as the 'Father of the Atomic Bomb' and played a large part in the Manhattan Project. | 47 |
