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WW2
French
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| l’abstinence | abstinence |
| l’amnistie | amnesty |
| les armes | weapons |
| l’arrestation | arrest |
| les atrocités | atrocities |
| le blocus allié | Allied blockade |
| le bombardement | bombing |
| la carte de rationnement | ration card |
| la censure | censorship |
| civil | civilian |
| clandestin | secret/underground |
| clandestinement | secretly |
| le collaborateur | somebody collaborating with the Germans |
| la collaboration | the Collaboration |
| collaborer | to collaborate |
| la concession | compromise |
| les contrôles | controls |
| le couvre | feu |
| la Défense Passive | civil defense |
| dénoncer | to betray |
| la dénonciation | denunciation/betrayal |
| la déportation | imprisonment/deportation |
| déporter | to send to a concentration camp |
| la dictature | dictatorship |
| la discrimination | discrimination |
| l’engagement | commitment |
| l’épuration | purge |
| un ersatz | ersatz/substitute |
| l’étoile jaune | yellow star all Jews had to wear |
| l’exécution | execution |
| la faim | hunger |
| le fasciste | fascist |
| les faux papiers | forged papers |
| la file d’attente | queue |
| le général de Gaulle | General de Gaulle |
| la Gestapo | German secret police |
| l’interdiction | banning |
| les journaux clandestins | underground newspaper |
| la libération | The Liberation – When German soldiers left France |
| la ligne de démarcation | the demarcation line between occupied and unoccupied France |
| le manque de matières premières | the lack of raw material |
| lle manque de nourriture | the lack of food |
| le maquis | the maquis |
| le maquisard | member of the maquis |
| le marché noir | black market |
| Le maréchal Pétain | Field Marshal Pétain |
| la Milice | French civilian police |
| le milicien | member of the Milice |
| les nazis | nazis |
| l’Occupation | the occupation of France by Germany |
| le parachutage | parachuting |
| le parti | political party |
| la pénurie | shortage |
| la pénurie de main d’œuvre | workforce shortage |
| le pillage | looting |
| la planque | hideaway |
| les privations | deprivation |
| les produits de premières nécessités | essentials |
| la propagande | propanganda |
| la rafle | roundup/raid |
| le ravitaillement | supplying |
| le recensement | census |
| le régime de Vichy | Vichy government |
| le réseau | network |
| la Résistance | the Resistance |
| le résistant | a member of the French resistance |
| le sabotage | sabotage |
| la Seconde Guerre Mondiale | the second World War |
| le soldat | soldier |
| le STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire) | French men were sent to work in Germany |
| le tract | leaflet/handout |
| le troc | barter |
| la vengeance | revenge |
| la victime | victim |
| le vol | theft |
| la zone libre | unoccupied France |
| la zone occupée | occupied France |
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