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containment
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the policy of preventing a country from gaining control of another country
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detente
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the policy was meant to relax tensions between the communists and the free world
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Holocaust
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the mass killing of the Jewish people
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superpower
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a nation that is one of the world's most powerful
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appeasement
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policy of not opposing the fascists
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Cold War
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a conflict of words and ideas between nations rather than armies
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genocide
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the killing of an entire group of people
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fascism
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political ideas that stress strong government control, military strength, and intense nationalism
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limited war
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a war in which total victory is not the goal
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