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ww2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| dictator | a ruler with unrestricted power, without any democratic restrictions |
| totalitarian state | 极权主义国家a dictatorship in which the government used intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens |
| five- years plan | Stalin''s plans for economic development in the soviet union over five years |
| fascist | a form of authoritarian government that is totalitarian and nationalistic法西斯主义者； |
| Weimar republic | the democratic government in Germany after theWW1 |
| Nazis | members of the National Socialist German Workers' party; the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled very aspet of German life through a polie state |
| Kristallnacht | a coordinated attack against Jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany on November 9 ,1938 |
| persecution | to oppress or ill-treat because of race, religion , gender and sexual orientation 迫害或受迫害 |
| Holocaust | the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the WW2大屠杀； |
| Policy of appeasement | giving in to an aggressor's demand in the hopes that no more demands will be made髓部内模； |
| non-aggression pact | an agreement between two countries not to attack each other不侵犯条约 |
| Isolationism | the policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries孤立主义 |
| refugee | a person displaced from his of her home and territory by war and other act of aggression避难者，难民 |
| anti-Semitism | discrimination or hostility toward Jewish peopleanti-Semitism |
| deportation | the act of sending someone back to his or her native land deportation |
| Wartime information board | board established in 1942 to coordinate wartime propaganda in canada |
| total war | the mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war总体战 |
| crown corporations | business and industries owned by the Canadian government 重掺入 |
| Allies | countries fight against Germany ( Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New zealand and after 1941, the US and the USSR |
| Axis | alliance between Germany, italy and Japan |
| Blitzkrieg | German war tactic of surprise attacks by tanks and fighter planes |
| Dunkirk | port toen in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when German forces conquered France |
| the Blitz | the heavy, frequent bombing attacks on london and the other British cities by Nazi germany |
| battle of Britain | an air campaign launched in 1940 by the Royal Air force to stop the germans from achieving air superiority |
| pearl harbor | the Japanese bombing of the us navak base in hawaii |
| battle of Hk | japan's attack on the british colony of hk in which there were heavy Canadian loosed |
| Black christmas | Dec 25, 1941 the date hk fell to the Japanese |
| battle of the Atlantic | the struggle between the allies and the axis powers to control the allies shipping route across the atlantic ocean |
| Italian Campaign | 1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; the day Allied armies, including Canada invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War |
| paratroopers | soliders trained to parachute from airplanes onto combat areas |
| Juno Beach | the nine-kilometre stretch beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day |
| Manhattan Project | the code name during the Second World War for the American plan to develop the first atomic bomb |
| atomic bomb | a bomb containing radioactive material, capable of destroying an entire city or region |
| dieppe raid | the 1942 trial raid by canadian troops against germany's occupation of dieppe; canada suffered heavy losses |
| bomber command | the section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of germany |
| operation Barbarossa | germany's unsuccessful invasion of the soviet union in 1941-1942, which broke the non-aggression pact and ultimately led to the soviet union joining he allies |
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