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18 Cards in this Set
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Appeasement
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The granting of concessions in order to maintain peace
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Countries Appeased to Hitler
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Axis Powers
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The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Alliance of 3 countries
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Battle of the Atlantic
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Struggle between Allied and Axis powers to control the Allies supply route across the Atlantic
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If lost, would mean surrender of Britain.
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Arsenal of democracy
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World War II was a slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast delivered on December 29, 1940. Roosevelt promised to help the United Kingdom fight Nazi Germany by giving them military supplies while the United States stayed out of the actual fighting.
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American Presidents slogan during world war 2
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Avro Arrow
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A Canadian aircraft who's production was scrapped during the cold war
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Aircraft
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Berlin Wall
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A wall set up to divide communist East and capitalist West Berlin. Also used to keep people from leaving communist Berlin.
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East vs. West
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Blitzkreig
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War conducted with great speed and force. Used by the Germans during World War 2. Literally means lightning war
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War tactic
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Bomarc missle
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Air defense during the Cold War. First long range, anti aircraft missile.
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Some installed in Canada, later to be dismantled
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Bomber Command
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A unit of air force dedicated to strategic bombing.
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Air unit
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Battle of Britain
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German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.
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Air battle
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Cold War
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Tension between the communist Soviet Union and it's allies and the capitalist and democratic U.S. and it's allies between 1985 and 1989
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Communism
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Property, production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public
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Soviet government
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Contentious Objector
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A person who refuses military service on the grounds of religious or moral opposition to war
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Holocaust
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The genocide committed by the fascist Nazi government in Germany during World War II
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NORAD
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Agreement in 1957 integrated U.S. and Canadian air defence forces
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Tied aid
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Assistance given by one country to another that requires the receiving country to buy goods from the donor country
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Warsaw Pact
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Post WW2 military alliance involving the U.S.S.R. and the Soviet-Bloc countries of Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, and Romania
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Declaration of war
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A formal act by which one nation goes to war with another
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