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appeasement
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giving into an aggresor to avoid conflict
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nonaggression pact
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between Hitlter and 'Stalin said they wouldn't attack each other and to divide Poland
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Axis Powers
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Italy, Germany, and later Japan 1936
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Munich Conference
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Britain, France,Germany, and Italy. Germany was given the Sudetenland in exchange for Hitler's promise to make no more claims on European territory
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Allied Powers
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Britain France later the US and other countries
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Winston Churchill
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a great politician of 'Britain who feared that appeasement would encourage Hitler to seize additional territory
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Lend Lease Act
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law that allowed the US to offer weapons and other war supplies to the Alled Powers to fight against the Axis Powers
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Blitzkrieg
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lightning war type of fast moving wafare used by Germany
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Maginot Line
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line of defenses built by France along its border w/ Germany after WWI
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Atlantic Charter
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pledge made by Roosevelt and Churchill not to aquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war
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Hideki Tojo
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prime minister of Japan
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