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GavinC Chpt 26
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appeasement | the practice of giving in to an aggressor nation’s demands in order to preserve peace & avoid war, for example: when Great Britain & France gave in to Hitler at the Munich Conference |
| Totalitarian State | a country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of its people, for example: Nazi German and the Soviet Union |
| Munich Conference | a conference in Sept. 1938 where Hitler assured France & Great Britain that he would take no more territory if they allowed him to have the Sudetenland |
| Pearl Harbor | the immediate cause for US entry into WWII when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Dec. 7, 1941 |
| Holocaust | Hitler’s policy of ethnic cleansing when he had 6 million Jews killed |
| Importance of D-Day | turning point of W.W.II- AKA operation Overlord when on June 6, 1944 the Allies invaded Normandy, France to start the liberation of Europe |
| Nuremberg Trials | war crimes trials against Nazi & Japanese leaders after WWII |
| United Nations | the international organization formed in 1945 at the end of WWII to help solve conflicts between nations before the erupted into global warfare |