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America at war. WWII

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Reparations - payments intended to cover damage or injury during a war.
Mein Kampf - a book by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. It combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology.
Appeasement - a diplomatic policy aimed at avoiding war by making concessions to an aggressor.
Blitzkrieg - all-motorised force concentration of tanks, infantry, artillery, combat engineers and air power, concentrating overwhelming force at high speed to break through enemy lines.
Fascism - a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology.
Totalitarianism - when a government aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.
Embargo - the partial or complete prohibition of commerce and trade with a particular country, in order to isolate it.
Lend-lease - the program under which the United States of America supplied the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, China, Free France, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and 1945.
Selective service - a means by which the United States government maintains information on those potentially subject to military conscription.
Double V - a 1942 letter to the Pittsburgh Courier, James G. Thompson called for a Double V Campaign to achieve two victories: over the Axis powers in World War II and over racial prejudice in the United States.
Operation overlord - code name for the Battle of Normandy, the operation that launched the invasion of German-occupied western Europe during World War II by Allied forces.
"The Big Three" - the group of world leaders during WW II: Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill
Axis powers - was the alignment of nations that fought in the Second World War against the Allied forces.
Holocaust - was the genocide of approximately six million European Jews during World War II, a programme of systematic state-sponsored murder by Nazi Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, throughout Nazi-occupied territory.
Manhattan Project - a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II.
"Leapfrogging" - economic growth theories and industrial-organization innovation studies with specific focus on competition among firms. It is based on Joseph Schumpeter's notion of ‘gales of creative destruction’.
Enola Gay - a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel (later Brigadier General) Paul Tibbets.
United Nations - an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace.
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