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| Germany, Italy, and Japan who signed a mutual defense treaty |
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| Code name for the building of the atomic bomb. |
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| Lightning war, Germany's new military strategy, which used advances in military technology such as fast tanks and powerful aircraft. |
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| Loaned arms and supplies to any country whose defense was vital to the United States. |
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| Code named Operation Overlord, the largest land, sea, air operation in army history. |
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| Giving up principles to pacify an aggressor. |
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| Deliberate and systematic killing of an entire population. |
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| Establishing fixed allotment of goods deemed essential for the military, households received ration books with coupons to be used for buying scarce goods. |
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| Trial at the conclusion of the war in which Nazi leaders were tried for war crimes. |
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| Agreement between the USSR and Germany not to attack one another, but to attack and divide Poland. |
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| Victory in Europe day, the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich. |
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| Provided education and training for veterans, paid for by the federal government, also provided loans to vets for housing. |
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| Night of broken glass, when Nazi troopers attacked Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany. |
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| Systematic murder of 12 million people across Europe, more than half of whom were Jewish. |
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Dismal, overcrowded segregated Jewish areas in certain Polish cities sealed off with barbed wire, life inside was
miserable, forced to live there by the Nazis. |
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