| A | B |
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| Holocaust | catastrophe that ravaged Europe’s Jews, killing nearly 6 million. |
| Nuremberg Laws | took citizenship away from German Jews and banned marriage between Germans and Jews. |
| Wannsee Conference | determined “final solution of the Jewish question.” |
| Concentration camp | healthy individuals would work as slave laborers until they dropped dead of exhaustion, disease, or malnutrition. |
| Extermination Camps | attached to concentration camps those considered “unhealthy”, the elderly and children were executed in massive gas chambers. |
| Lend-Lease Act | the U.S. could lend or lease arms to any country considered “vital to the United States. |
| Hemispheric Defense Zone | declared the entire western half of the Atlantic as a part of the Western Hemisphere and therefore neutral. This allow the U.S. to patrol the Atlantic. |
| Attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
