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15 Cards in this Set
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appeasement
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giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
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genocide
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deliberate destruction of a group of poeple
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kamikaze
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japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to attack American warships
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pacifism
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opposition to all war
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hiroshima
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japanese city destroyed by an atomic bomb dropped by the United States in 1945.
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blitzkreig
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lighting war
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collaboator
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one who cooerates with an enemy force occupying a country
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Haile Selassie
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Ethiopian king who appealed to the League of Nations for help
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Harry Truman
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president who issued a policy stating that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in the world
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Dwight Eisenhower
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Supreme allied commander in Europe
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Francisco Franco
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nationalist general who created a Fascist dictatorship in Spain
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Winston Churchill
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prime minister who rallied Britian to fight against Nazi aggression
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Dunkirk
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beach on the English Channel where allied troops were rescued from advancing Nazis
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El Alamein
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site of a battle in Egypt that became a turning point in WW2
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Gurnica
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a town that was brutally attacked by Germany during the Spainish Civil War
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