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Nonaggression pact

An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another

Blitzkrieg

"Lightning war" a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with Infantry forces

Atlantic charter

A declaration of principle issued in august 1941 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and us president FDR on which the allied peace plan of the WWII was based

Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941, this place in Hawaii was bombed in a surprise attack by japan

Aryans

To the Nazis the Germanic people who formed, a master plan

Holocaust

A mass slaughter of jews and other civilians carried out

Kristallnacht

"Night of the broken glass" the night of Nov. 9, 1938, on which bazi storm troops attacked Jewish homes,businesses,and synagogues throughout Germany

Ghettos

City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live in

" Final solution"

Hitlers program of systematically killing of an entire Jewish people

Genocide

The systematic killing of an entire people

D-day

June 6, 1944, the day on which the allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII

Kamikaze

During WWII Japanesessuicide pilots trained to sink allied ships by crashing bomb filled planes into then

Nuremburg trials

A series of court proceeding held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII in which Nazi leaders ware tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity

Demilitarization

A reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibotry it from acquiring weapon

Democratization

The process of creating a government elected by the people