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59415498Winston ChurchillBritain's new prime minister during WWII who pleaded for US aid0
59415499Tojo HidekiJapanese army officer who initiated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor; dictator of Japan in WWII, tried and executed as war criminal1
59415500Rape of NanjingJapanese attack on Chinese capital from 1937-1938 when Japanese aggressorts slaughtered 100,000 civilians and raped thousands of women in order to gain control of China2
59415501Munich Conference1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.3
59415502Axis PowersIncluded Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria4
59415503BlitzkriegGerman lightning warfare. Characterized by highly mobility and concentrated forces at point of attack.5
59415504Battle of Britainan aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.6
59415505Operation Barbarossacodename for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.7
59415506Kamikazea fighter plane used for suicide missions by Japanese pilots in World War II8
59415507The final solutionThe Nazi cover-up name for the plan to annihilate all of the Jews9
59415508Comfort womenwomen forcibly recruited by the japanese army to serve in military brothels10
59415509Truman DoctorineA US policy announced by President Harry Truman of providing economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents11
59415510Marshall Planhe proposed massive and systematic American economic aid to Europe to revitalize the European economies after WWII and help prevent the spread of Communism12
59415511NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries13
59415512Warsaw Pacttreaty signed in 1945 that formed an alliance of the Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain; USSR, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania14

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