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chapt 28
Question | Answer |
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appeasement | the act of giving in to an aggressor to preserve peace |
concentration camps | a guarded compound for the detention or imprisonment of members of ethnic minorities (where jews where sent) |
genocide | deliberate murder of an entire people |
Kamikaze | WW2 tactic, used by Japanese pilots of crashing planes filled with explosives into allied ships |
Holocaust | the Nazi's killing of nearly 6 million jews and about 3 million other people during WW2 |
axis powers | In World War II, the alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan formed the Axis powers. |
Allied Powers | n World War II, the Allied powers were those countries, including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, the United States, China, and France (before its defeat in 1940), that opposed the Axis powers. |
Benito Mussolini | was the fascist ruler of Italy in 1922. Mussolini was known as "the leader" |
Inflation | increased prices for goods and services combined with the reduced value of money |
Adolf Hitler | nazi ruler |