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100 Cards in this Set
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The three-field system contributed to the agricultural revolution because?
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It allowed peasants to produce more crops.
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Serfs were?
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Tied to land.
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People who disobeyed the Church law during the Middle Ages could be?
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Excommunicated
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The steel helped what in the Middle Ages in Western Europe?
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Revolutionize agriculture.
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Under feudalism?
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Lords granted land granted land to vassals in exchange for military service.
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Charlemagne is credited with?
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The revival Latin learning.
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The manor economy was based on?
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Farming and self-sufficiency.
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The Church was reformed because?
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It had grown corrupt?
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New agricultural technologies in the Middle Ages led to?
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Increases in food production.
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The chief goal of the Crusades was to?
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Conquer the Holy Land.
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A result of the plague in Europe was?
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Economic decline.
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A result of the Crusades was?
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Increased trade in Western Europe.
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The flying buttress was a key feature of?
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Gothic Architecture.
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In the late Middle Ages the Church?
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Grew weak and divided.
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Joan of Arc was remembered by?
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Leading the French to victories against the English in the Hundred Year's War.
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The ability to appoint high-ranking Church officials was a key conflict between?
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Emperors and Popes in the Late Middle Ages.
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After the crusades the Muslims controlled?
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The Holy Land.
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A fief was?
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An estate granted to a vassal.
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Tithe was?
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A tax the Church required Christians to pay.
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A Charter was?
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Written documents that set out the rules of the town.
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Vassals pledged loyalty to?
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The Lord in Feudal Society.
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An apprentice was?
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A trainee learning a craft.
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A knight was?
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A mounted warrior.
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The Lords estate was called a?
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Manor.
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Excommunication was?
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Exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church.
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A holy war was?
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A crusade to strengthen the Church's influence.
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Vernacular was?
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The everyday language of ordinary people.
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Gothic was?
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The middle age style of architecture.
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Black death?
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Killed millions in the Middle Ages.
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Trade was?
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The most important activity in a medieval town.
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Chivalry governed?
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Relations between noblemen and noblewomen.
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Chivalry also served as?
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The code of conduct for the knights.
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Peasants?
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Made up the largest group in feudal society.
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The Church great power over?
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People during the Middle Ages because it decided who could achieve salvation.
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Jews?
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Took refuge in Poland during the late Middle Ages.
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The Byzantine Empire?
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Influenced the emergence of autocratic rule in Russia.
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Eastern Europe is a region of?
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Diverse peoples and cultures.
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The artists of the Renaissance focused on?
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Humans and their experiences.
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The development of printing in Europe led to?
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Increased literacy.
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Luther criticized?
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The Roman Catholic Church for selling indulgences.
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Copernicus proposed that?
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The earth travels around the sun.
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A wealthy and power merchant class was the main reason for?
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The birth of the Renaissance in Italy.
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Christopher Columbus miscalculated?
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The circumference of the world.
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Vasco da Gama?
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Sailed around Africa to the lands of India.
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Christopher Columbus in 1492?
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Hoped to sail west and reach Asia.
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Dias?
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Sailed to the Cape of Good Hope.
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Ferdinand Magellan was?
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The navigator who circumnavigated the world.
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Henry the Navigator was?
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The Portuguese ruler who encouraged ocean explorations.
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Who gained control of most of the New World?
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Spain
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The "Middle Passage" refers to?
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The Voyage of slave ships from Africa to America
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The biggest factor which killed Native Americans when the Europeans arrived was?
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Disease
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A ship with square and triangular sails is called a?
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Caravel
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A map maker is called a?
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Cartographer
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A device used to measure the sun and stars is called an?
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Astrolabe
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Circumnavigate means?
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To sail around the world.
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Conquistadors were?
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Spanish explorers in the Americas.
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European rulers encouraged?
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Ocean exploration in search of new trade routes.
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Portugal was the leader of European countries in?
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Exploration
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Treaty of Tordesillas was?
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The agreement between between Spain and Portugal in diving up the hemispheres for exploration.
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The Southern most tip of Africa is called?
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Cape of Good Hope.
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On Christopher Columbus's first voyage?
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He landed in the Bahamas
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The bourgeoisie belonged to which Estate?
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The Third Estate
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Napoleon crowned himself?
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Emperor of France
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Deficit spending is?
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Spending more money than what is taken in.
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Suffrage is?
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The right to vote.
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Plebiscite is?
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A ballot in which voters say yes or no to an issue.
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Abdicate is?
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To step down from power.
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Nationalism is?
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A feeling of intense pride in one's country.
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European rulers denounced the French Revolution because?
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They were afraid it would spread.
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During the Reign of Terror, Robespierre tried to?
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Crush all opposition to the revolution.
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France's economy was?
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Mainly supported by the Third Estate.
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The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen stated?
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All men were born free and equal in rights.
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Louis XIV called the Estates-General into session to?
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Raise taxes to pay for government debt.
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Reparations
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Payment for war damages.
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Atrocities
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Brutally committed acts.
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Ultimatum
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A final set of demands
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Propaganda
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Ideas spread to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.
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Mobilize
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To prepare military forces for war.
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Militarism
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The glorification of the military.
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Social Darwinism
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Theory that strong and not weak nations will succeed.
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Sphere of influence
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Area claimed by outside power for exclusive trade privileges
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Protectorate
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Country with its own government but under another control.
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Colony
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Territory settles and ruled by people from another land.
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Imperialism
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Political and cultural domination of one country over another.
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In response to Axis aggression in the 1930s
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Western democracies followed a policy of appeasement.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor is known as?
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"The date which will live in infamy"
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D-Day resulted in?
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The liberation of France
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Who remained in Germany after the war ended?
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American, English, French, and Russian armies.
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Allied Leaders?
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Winston Churchill (Brit)
Joseph Stalin (SU) FDR (USA) |
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The term Holocaust refers to?
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The massacre of more than six million Jews.
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Japan was?
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The last to surrender in WWII
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The Final Solution, Auschwitz, and Treblinka were used?
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To commit atrocities against the Jews
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Axis Leaders?
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Mussolini (Italy)
Hitler (Germany) Tojo (Japan) |
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What brought US into the war?
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Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
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D-Day refers to the?
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Allied invasion of France
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Genocide
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Deliberate destruction of a group or race of people.
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war
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Kamikaze
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Suicide Japanese pilots
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Appeasement
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Giving into the demands of an aggressor
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Pacifism
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Opposition to all war.
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