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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| appeasement | the action or process of appeasing. |
| armistice | an agreement made by opposing sides in a war to stop fighting for a certain time; a truce. |
| blitzkrieg | an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
| conscription | compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces. |
| depression | feelings of severe despondency and dejection. |
| dictatorship | government by a dictator |
| fascism | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization. |
| genocide | the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. |
| holocaust | The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. |
| kaiser | Kaiser Permanente is an integrated managed care consortium, based in Oakland, California, United States, founded in 1945 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser and physician Sidney Garfield. |
| mandates | an official order or commission to do something. |
| nationalism | patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts |
| propaganda | information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. |
| reparation | the making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged. |
| sanction | a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule |
| totalitarian state | The government of Nazi Germany was a fascist, totalitarian state. Totalitarian regimes, in contrast to a dictatorship, establish complete political, social, and cultural control over their subjects, and are usually headed by a charismatic leader |
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