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UNIT5VOCAB-CHAPTER22
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appeasement | giving in to the demands of another in order to keep the peace |
| Munich Conference | 1935 meeting at which France and England decided to appease Nazi Germany by allowing it to take possession of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia |
| Sudetenland | area of Czechoslovakia that was given to Nazi Germany in an effort to appease power Adolf Hitler and avoid further aggression |
| Isolationism | the strong belief that one should not become involved in relationships with other nations |
| Axis Powers | WWII alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Blitzkrieg | sudden, quick, violent attack from air or land during war |
| Allies | WWII alliance of Free France, Great Britain, Soviet Union, China and the U.S. |
| Battle of Britain | a series of German air raids meant to destroy the British Royal Airforce (RAF) and invade Great Britain |
| Sir Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of the UK during WWII who inspired his people to continue to fight under the most difficult of circumstances |
| Emperor Hirohiro | Leader of Japan during and after WWII-- 19266-1989 |
| Pearl Harbor | U.S. military base comced by Japan on 12/7/1941 to destroy the U.S. Pacific fleet and prevent any U.S. action against Japanese imperialism in East Africa |
| Battle of Stalingrad | the fight that marked the failure of Adolf Hitler to defeat the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of WWII and marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany |
| Turning Point | time at which and important change occurs |
| D-Day | an unnamed day on which something is to take place |
| Normandy Beach | D-Day landing sight in WWII to re-conquer France from the Nazis |
| D-Day invasion | The 6/6/1944 event on which the WWII Allies crossed the English Channel from Britain to land on the beaches of Normandy, France |
| Manhattan Project | codename for the U.S. led project to develop the atomic bomb during WWII |
| Hiroshima and Nagasaki | Japanese cities onto which the U.S. dropped atomic bombs in order to force Japanese surrender in WWII |
| Race | group of people indentified by genetically-transmitted physical characteristics |
| Racism | a strong belief that the genetic traits of one group makes him/her superior/inferior to another |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jewish people and culture |
| Human rights | basic freedoms that all men are given |
| Pogrom | organized violence against Jews and other ethnic groups in Nazi Germany |
| Concentration Camps | a place where prisoners of war are held under harsh conditions, worked to death, abused/murdered |
| Atrocity | horrible act of an unusual nature |
| Genocide | the widespead extermination/attemped extermination of an entire racial or ethnic group |
| Utilization | the reuse of the personal belongings of ethnic/racial gropus |
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