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| Trench Warfare | Strategy in which the enemy’s military and civilian resources are attacked. |
| Propaganda | Ideas, facts, or rumors spread deliberately to further one's cause or damage an opposing cause |
| Rationing | the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services. Used in times of war to put needed resources towards a war effort |
| Total War | military conflict in which nations mobilize all available resources in order to destroy another nation's ability to engage in war. |
| Armistice | document signed by leaders of warring nations to stop fighting |
| Appeasement | Policy of trying to avoid war by accepting (or giving in to) demands of an aggressor |
| Juggernaut | A force that seems unbeatable or unstoppable |
| Blitzkrieg | German for "Lightening War"; fast forceful style of fighting used by Germany in WWII |
| Totalitarianism | regimes in which the state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private behavior |
| Communism | Authoritarian socialism; economic and political system in which governments own the means of production and control economic planning. |
| Holocaust | Systematic elimination of European Jews and others by the Nazis |
| Genocide | Systematic extermination of a people. |
| Shoah | Hebrew word for Holocaust |
| Ghetto | section of a city occupied by a minority group who live there especially because of social, economic, or legal pressure. |
| Militarism | Glorification of armed strength |
| Mobilize | Act of preparing a nation's army and other resources for war |
| Reparations | Payment for war damages |
| Fascism | government that relies on dictatorial rule and a totalitarian regime, where the state maintains rigid control of people through force and censorship |
