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Grade 8 - Unit 7
World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Totalitarianism | A form of government in which every aspect of the citizens’ lives is controlled by the government. |
| Facism | A political system in which the state, or government, is seen as more important than the individual. |
| Nazi | The National Socialist Party of Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler. |
| Appeasement | The policy of giving into the demands of a nation to avoid war. |
| Internment | The imprisonment of Japanese Americans in special camps during World War II. |
| D-Day | An invasion of Nazi-occupied France by the Allied powers in 1944. |
| Genocide | The complete destruction of an entire racial or ethnic group. |
| Holocaust | A program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to kill all Jews. |
| Manhattan Project | The US effort to build an atomic bomb. |
| Atom Bomb | A weapon that receives its explosive power from the splitting of atoms. |