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18 Cards in this Set
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Appeasement
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Giving into demands to avoid conflict.
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Campaign
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Series of military moves carried out to achieve a specific goal.
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Defensive
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Protecting against the attack
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Fleet
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A number of warships under one command
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Fortification
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A structure (like a fort) for defending against an attack.
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Liberate
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To set free
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Resistance Movement
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An organization of people often-underground working to gain national freedom from an occupying power.
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Undermine
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To weaken something
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Fascism
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A system of government led by a dictator having complete power forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism.
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Blitzkrieg
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A war conducted with great speed and force. “Lightning War”
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Panzers
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German tank
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Phony war
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7 months after war was declared, Great Britain and France not actually fighting against Germany.
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Maginot Line
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A line of defensive fortifications constructed by the French along their eastern border.
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Genocide
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The deliberate and systematic extermination of a particular racial, national, or religious group.
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Luftwaffe
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German Air Force
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Retreat
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To pull back or to withdraw
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Rubble
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Broken fragments from destroyed building and other structures.
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Siege
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Surrounding of a place in order to capture it.
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