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World History
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History
9th Grade
11/13/2012

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Appeasement
Definition
Giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning War
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Cold War
Definition
State of tension and hostility among nations without armed conflict
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Collaborator
Definition
One who cooperates with an enemy force occupying a country
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Containment
Definition
Limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control
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genocide
Definition
Deliberate destruction of a group of people
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Kamikaze
Definition
Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to attack American warships
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Pacifism
Definition
Opposition to all war
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Winston Churchill
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Prime minister who rallied Britain to fight against Nazi aggression
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Francisco Franco
Definition
Nationalist general who created a Fascist dictatorship in Spain
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Dwight Eisenhower
Definition
Supreme Allied commander in Europe
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Haile Selassie
Definition
Ethiopian king who appealed to the League of Nations for help
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Harry truman
Definition
President who issued a policy stating that Americans would resist Soviet expansion in the world
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Dunkirk
Definition
Beach on the English Channel where Allied troops were rescued from advancing Nazies
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El Alamein
Definition
Site of a battle in Egypt that became a turning point during World War II
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Guernica
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Town that was brutally attacked by Germany during the Spanish Civil War
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Hiroshima
Definition
Japanese city destroyed by an atomicbomb dropped by the United States in 1945
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Pearl Harbor
Definition
Naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan in 1941
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