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world history end of year assessment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| armistice | truce agreement |
| reparations | payments to cover war |
| trench warfare | warfare based on protected lines of ditches |
| depression | period of low economic activity and rising unemployment |
| blitzkrieg | lightning war-Hitler's surprise attack on Poland |
| genocide | deliberate mass murder of a particular group |
| propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion |
| Hitler | believed Germans were superior to all other races |
| Treaty of Versailles | an order for Germany to pay reparations for war damages |
| concentration camps | large prison camps |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| Berlin Wall | Wall that divided the two halves of Berlin |
| detente | phase of relaxed tension and improved relations |
| budget deficit | government spends more that it collects in revenues |
| ghettos | crowded, designated holding areas within the cities for Jews |
| D-Day | Naval invasion, June 6, 1944 |
| Pearl Harbor | target of Japanese attack December, December 7, 1941 |
| Auschwitz | Hitler's largest extermination center, located in Poland |