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| prejudice against Jews; hatred of their ethnic background, religion, and culture |
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| the act of giving in to an aggressor to preserve peace |
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| a slogan by FDR in 1940 promising to help the British and russians fight the germans by giving them military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting concentration camps a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of members of ethnic minorities (where jews where sent) |
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| WW2 strategy of conquering only certain Pacific islands that were important to the allied advance toward Japan |
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| forced relocation and imprisonment of people |
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| deliberate murder of an entire people |
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| plan to invade Normandy, France and fool the Germans by making fake attacks; the real attack was called D Day which is the largest sea and land invasion in history |
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| agreement between nations not to attack each other |
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| WW2 tactic, used by Japanese pilots of crashing planes filled with explosives into allied ships |
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| gardens planted to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by war effort |
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| (Women's Army Corps) women's branch of the US army; work other than nursing; started by Oveta Culp Hobby |
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| debt securities issued by a govt. for the purpose of financing military operations during times of war |
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| (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) a WW2 era division of the US navy that consisted of women |
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| (1943) attacks by US sailors against Mexican Americans in Los Angeles |
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| mexican workers authorized by the US govt. to enter the United Staes during WW2 |
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| the Nazi's killing of nearly 6 million jews and about 3 million other people during WW2 |
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| the permanent peace keeping organ of the united nations |
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