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WWII main info
main information of WWII
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Totalitarian State | a dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens |
| Nazis | members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party: the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state |
| Holocaust | the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War |
| Policy of Appeasement | giving in to an aggressor's demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made |
| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan | |
| Total War | |
| Allies | |
| Axis | |
| Dunkirk | |
| Battle of Britain | |
| Pearl Harbor | |
| Battle of Hong Kong | |
| Battle of the Atlantic | |
| Bomber Command | |
| Dieppe Raid | |
| Italian Campaign | |
| D-Day | |
| Liberation of the Netherlands | |
| Genocide | |
| Enemy Aliens | |
| Arsenal of Democracy | |
| Kristallnacht | a coordinated attack against Jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany on November 9, 1938 |