World War II Terms Flashcards
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| 367359934 | Anschluss | Germany invading Austria | 0 | |
| 367359935 | Luftewaffe | German Air force | 1 | |
| 367359936 | Blitzkreig | "Lightning War" Get in, hit em hard, and get out | 2 | |
| 367359937 | London Blitz | The German bombing of London | 3 | |
| 367359938 | Lebensraum | Hitler's policy of countries needing more space: AKA invade Poland and Czechoslovakia because the you (the Germans) "need" more living space | 4 | |
| 367359939 | Iron Curtain | Symbolized the division of the West and communist USSR. Churchill made the term | 5 | |
| 367359940 | Communist Bloc | All of the Communist countries (mostly included in the Warsaw Pact). | 6 | |
| 367359941 | Glasnost | Openness in Russian government. Introduced by Gorbachev | 7 | |
| 367359942 | Perestroika | Similar to the "Glasnost" (openness) policy except it literally meant "restructuring" of the the Soviet political and economic policy. | 8 | |
| 367359943 | Stagflation | Intense inflation along with very low unemployment | 9 | |
| 367359944 | Genocide | The mass-murder of a race | 10 | |
| 367359945 | Ethnic Cleansing | The murder of a certain group or race because they are thought to be undesirable or inferior. | 11 |