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| Manchurian Incident | Situation in 1931, when Japanese troops, claiming that Chinese soldiers had tried to blow up a railway line, took matters in their own hands by capturing several southern Manchurian cities and by continuing to take over the country even after Chinese troops had withdrawn. |
| puppet state | a supposedly independent country under the control of a powerful neighbor. Manchukuo was in this condition. |
| Burma Road | a 700-mile long highway linking Burma (present-day Myanmar) to China. Britain sent a steady stream of supplies over this highway. |
| Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere | an area extending from Manchuria in the north to the Dutch East Indies in the south. In 1940, Japan's prime minister announced this would be led by the Japanese. |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler began writing this autobiography while he was in prison. |
| Aryan race | blond, blue eyed Germans |
| Reichstag | the lower house of the German parliament |
| policy of appeasement | Giving in to a competitor's demands in order to keep the peace |
| Nonaggression Pact | Hitler signed this 10 year aggreement that eliminated the danger of a Soviet invasion from the east. |
| Stuka | a divebombing warplane that began the blitzkrieg by shattering defense and terrorizing civilians. |
