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World War 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Appeasement | giving in to demands to avoid conflict |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war or rapid style of fighting |
| Holocaust | Nazi attempt to kill all European Jews |
| Ration | limited amount of goods |
| Totalitarian State | a nation with a single government party |
| Annex | to add land |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide attack |
| Nationalism | extreme pride in a nation |
| Axis Powers | Germany Italy Japan |
| Allied Powers | Britain France USSR |
| Atomic Bomb | new powerful weapon |
| Nazi Party | Party created by Hitler |
| WRA camps | American camps to relocate Japanese Americans |
| Nuremberg Trials | criminal trials for Nazi after WWII |
| Island Hopping | US method of fighting in Pacific |
| Adolph Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| Benito Mussolini | Leader of Fascist Italy |
| Emperor Hirohito | Leader of Japan |
| Franklin D Roosevelt | President of US |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of Great Britain |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of Communist Soviet Union |
| Pearl Harbor | US military base in Hawaii attacked by Japan |
| Hiroshima & Nagasaki | Japanese cities attacked with Atomic bombs |
| Rosie the Riviter | Symbol of American Women working in war effort |