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history vocab
chapter 3
Term | Definition |
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appeasement | to yield or concede to the belligerent demands of (a nation, group, person, etc.) in a conciliatory effort, sometimes at the expense of justice or other principles |
blitzkrieg | war tactic using tank divisions supported by air; "lighting war" |
cold war | intense economic, political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of military conflict |
collaborator | to cooperate as a traitor, especially with an enemy occupying one's own country |
demilitarized | to forbid military use of (a border zone) |
genocide | the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group |
kamikaze | a member of a special corps in the Japanese air force charged with the suicidal mission of crashing an aircraft into an enemy target |
mobilization | to organize or adapt for service to the government in time of war |
partisan | a member of an armed resistance group within occupied territory |
sanction | action by one or more states toward another state calculated to force it to comply with legal obligations |