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Nonaggression pact |
An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
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Blitzkrieg |
"Lightning war" a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with Infantry forces |
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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 |
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Pearl Harbor |
Dec 7, 1941, this place in Hawaii was bombed in a surprise attack by japan |
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Aryans |
To the Nazis the Germanic people who formed, a master plan |
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Holocaust |
A mass slaughter of jews and other civilians carried out |
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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 |
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Ghettos |
City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live in |
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" Final solution" |
Hitlers program of systematically killing of an entire Jewish people |
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Genocide |
The systematic killing of an entire people |
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D-day |
June 6, 1944, the day on which the allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII |
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Kamikaze |
During WWII Japanesessuicide pilots trained to sink allied ships by crashing bomb filled planes into then |
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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 |
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Demilitarization |
A reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibotry it from acquiring weapon |
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Democratization |
The process of creating a government elected by the people
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