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Sexton chapter 18
Bellevue West chapter 18
Question | Answer |
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Sanction | Penalty |
Appeasement | Policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace. |
Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
Anschluss | Union of Austria and Germany |
Blitzkrieg | Lightning war |
Radar | Device used to detect the flight of airplanes |
Sonar | Device used to detect the path of submarines |
Genocide | Deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
Collaborator | Person who cooperates with an enemy |
Reparations | Payment for war damages or damages caused by imprisonment |
Island-Hopping | Method used by Allied forces to recapture some Japanese-held islands in the Pacific while bypassing others |
Kamikaze | Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission |
Containment | Cold War policy of limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control |
Satellite | Dependent state |