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Aircraft Carriers   An aircraft carrier is a large ship that has a long, flat deck on which planes land on.  
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Atomic Bomb   An atomic bomb is an explosive weapon that causes great destruction.  
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Barracks   A barrack is a building used to house people temporarily.  
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Defense Industries   The defense industry is made up of businesses that produce weapons and other equipment for fighting in wars.  
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Gas Chambers   A gas chamber was a room that was filled up with poison gas to kill people.  
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Holocaust   The holocaust was the mass murder of Jews and other people during World War 2.  
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Internment Camps   An interment camp was a place where japanese americans living in the west coast were sent and held as prisoners by the government during World War 2.  
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Liberated   To liberate means to set free.  
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Pacifism   Pacifism is the belief that wars are wrong and that disbutes should be settled peacefully.  
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Rationed   To ration is to limit the amount of items allowed.  
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Recycling   To recycle means to make an item fit to be used again.  
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Stategy   A strategy is a plan for winning a war.  
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Zionism   Zionism is the belief that jews should have theif own country in palestine, or present day israel.  
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Arms Race   The arms Race is a competition between countries to build the largest military forces.  
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Berlin Airlift   The berlin airlift was a mission by the united states and great britain to deliver supplies to west berlin by plane when the soviet union would not allow supplies to come in by land.  
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Cold War   The Cold War was a political and economic struggle between the united states and the soviet union that lasted from 1945 until about 1989.  
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Containment   Containment was president harry truman's policy to keep communism from spreading.  
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Iron Curtain   The iron curtain was a term that described the political division between eastern and western europe during the cold war.  
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McCarthyism   McCarthyism named for Senetor Joseph McCarthy is the policy of falsely accusing people of working against the government.  
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Satellite   A satellite is an object that orbits the planet.  
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Superpowers   A superpower is a powerful nation, such as the united states, whose actions and policies affect many other countries.  
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Truce   A truce is an agreement between enemies to stop fighting.  
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