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A war, or a phase of a war, in which there is little or no active warfare.
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Sitzkrieg
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Based on a set of beliefs
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Ideological
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Elimination or prohibition of weapons, fortifications, and other military installations.
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Demilitarized
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Satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.
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Appeasement
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German for "lightning war", a swift and sudden military attack; used by the German during WW2
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Blitzkrieg
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Refusal to sides or become involved in wars between wars between other nations.
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Neutrality
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A policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations.
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Isolationism
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A resistance fighter in WWI
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Partisons
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The deliberate mass murder of physical extinction of a particular racial, political, or cultural group.
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Genocide
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A person who assists the economy.
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Collaboration(ator)
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The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war.
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Mobilization
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The British term for the German air raids on British cities and towns during WWI.
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Blitz
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Japenese for "divine wind", a suicide mission in which young Japenese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea.
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Kamikaze
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The period of political tension following WW2 and ending with the fall of communism in the soviet union at the end of the 1980's.
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Coldwater
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