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WWII Vocab
vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| sanction | penalty |
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| Nuremberg | war crime trials |
| Munich Conference | British chose appeasement |
| Pan africanism | establish cooperation among african and african american leaders |
| third reich | germany--ruled under hitler |
| united nations | greater than league of nations |
| appeasement | policy of giving into an aggressors demands |
| atrocity | brutal act committed against innocent people |
| Balfour declaration | the support for jews |
| blitzkrieg | lightening war using tanks and aircraft to defeat opposition quickly |
| collaborator | person who cooperates with the enemy |
| David Ben Gurion | Isreal 1st prime minister |
| genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| concentration camp | a detention center for civilians who are considered enemies of the state |
| Emperor Hirohito | Japan emperor forced gov to surrender |
| expansionism | policy of increasing the amount of territory a government holds |
| Holocaust | German (hitler) attempt to remove all jews |
| kamikaze | japenese pilot who undertook a suicide mission |
| Isolationism | policy of limited involement in world affairs |
| jomo kenyatta | kikuyuhelped organize the pan african congress -first prime minister of kenya |
| oppersor | one who opposes control/govern by the cruel/unjust use of force |
| Kwame Nkrumah | ghana radical party nationist |