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a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
Demilitarization |
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to the Nazis, the Germanic peoples who formed a “master race” |
Aryans |
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during WWII, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them |
Kamikaze |
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June 6, 1944--the day on which the Allies began their invasion of the European mainland during WWII |
D-Day |
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“Night of Broken Glass”--the night of November 9, 1938, on which Nazi storm trippers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues throughout Germany
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Kristallnacht |
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an agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
Non-Aggression Pact |
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“lightning war”--a from of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
Blitzkrieg |
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Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people |
"Final Solution" |
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the systematic killing of an entire people |
genocide |
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a 1944-1945 battle in which Allied forces turned back the last major German offensive of WWII |
Battle of the Bulge |
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the process of creating a government elected by the people |
democratization |
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a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after WWII, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity |
Nuremberg Trials |
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a 1942 sea and air battle of WWII, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific |
Battle of Midway |
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city neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
Ghettos |
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a mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during WWII |
Holocaust |
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British prime minister, probably the most powerful weapon the British had as they stood alone against Hitler’s Germany |
Winston Churchill |
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Japan’s greatest naval strategist, called for an attack on the U.S. fleet in Hawaii
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Isoroku Yamamoto |
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U.S. commander of the Allied land forces in the Pacific
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Douglas MacArthur |
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American general, supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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German general, led the Afrika Korps
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Erwin Rommel |
