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Fascism

an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

Totalitarian Government

a form of government in which the political authority exercises absolute and centralized control over all aspects of life

Mein Kampf

the autobiography (1925–27) of Adolf Hitler, setting forth his political philosophy and his plan for German conquest.

Gestapo

the German state secret police during the Nazi regime, organized in1933 and notorious for its brutal methods and operations.

anti-Semitism

discrimination against or prejudice or hostility toward Jews.

holocaust

the systematic mass slaughter ofEuropean Jews in Nazi concentration camps during World War II

Appeasement

to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment;pacify; soothe:

Munich Agreement

the pact signed by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Germany onSeptember 29, 1938, by which the Sudetenland was ceded toGermany: often cited as an instance of unwise and unprincipledappeasement of an aggressive nation.

Operation Sea Lion

the name given by Hitler for the planned invasion of Great Britain in 1940.

Tripartite Pact

also known as the BerlinPact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940

Hideki Tojo

a general of the Imperial Japanese Army, the leader of the Imperial Rule Assistance Association, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during much of World War II,

Island hopping campaign

Their strategy was to capture the Pacific islands one by one, advancing towards Japan and bypassing and isolating centres of resistance.

Battle of Midway

A naval and air battle fought in World War II in which planes from American aircraft carriers blunted the Japanese naval threat in the Pacific Ocean after Pearl Harbor.

Internment Camps

Putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime. the American government put Japanese-Americans in these camps fearing they might be loyal to Japan.

Manhattan Project

a research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

the scientist in charge of the US Manhattan Project (1942-5) which built the first atom bomb.

Battle of Stalingrad

a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in Southern Russia, on the eastern boundary of Europe.

D-day

the day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy.

Yalta Conference

a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.

Battle of Iwo Jima

a major battle in which the U.S. Marines landed on and eventually captured the island of Iwo Jima from the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II

United Nations

an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

Cold War

a state of political hostility between countries characterized by threats, propaganda, and other measures short of open warfare, in particular.