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Celebrity Spies Voc.
Question | Answer |
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HUAC | A congressional committee known as the House Un-American Activities Committee to study communist infiltration of the government |
Eugenicist | a person who proposes ways to improve human beings by selective breeding |
Der Fuhrer | the leader |
Guerilla warfare | sneak attacks; hide, hit, and run |
Doyenne | A woman who is the most experienced and respected member of a group or profession |
Memoir | an autobiography |
Implausible | not likely to be true |
Literati | intellectuals or the educated class |
Oracabessa | a port in Jamaica |
MI5 | an organization responsible for protecting the UK against threats to national security |
MI6 | British Secret Intelligence Service |
Nazi Black Book | a list of prominent British citizens to be arrested in the case of a successful invasion of Britain by the Nazis |
Operation Sea Lion | Germany’s plan to invade the UK during WW II |
BSC | British Security Coordination—Secret organization set up in New York City by MI6 and Winston Churchill to promote British interests in the US and to combat Nazi propaganda |