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World War II
Vocabulary for WWII Unit.
Term | Definition |
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Totalitarianism | government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives |
Communism | form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx, idea that class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole |
Fascism | any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights |
Pacifism | opposition to all war |
Anschluss | union of Austria and Germany |
Blitzkrieg | method of warfare designed to strike a swift, focused blow on the enemy using mobile forces including armored tanks and air support |
Concentration Camps | detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state |
Genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy and entire religious or ethnic group |
Kamikaze | Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission |
Island-Hopping | Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others |
D-Day | code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France during World War II |