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| Kamikaze | Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission |
| Pacifism | Opposition to all war |
| Sanctions | A penalty |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war, type of warfare used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis |
| Appeasement | Policy of giving in to an aggressors demands in order to keep peace |
| Genocide | A deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| Holocaust | The Nazi program which intended to exterminate the Jewish people of Europe |
| Marshall Plan | American aid package for Europe proposed in 1947 to strengthen democratic governments and lessen the appeal of communism |
| Pearl Harbor | Site of Japanese sneak attack on American naval base in the Pacific, December 7th, 1941 |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city where the first atomic bomb was dropped on August 6th, 1945 |
| United Nations | An international organization, which deals with issues of global concern |
| Nuremberg War Trials | Allies charged Nazi leaders with "crimes against humanity" took place here |
| Isolationism | Policy of limited involvement in world affairs. |
| Zionism | Movement devoted to rebuilding a Jewish state in Palestine. |
| Pan Africanism | A program, which emphasized the unity of people of African descent |
| Concentration camps | Detention center for civilians considered to be enemies of the state |
| D-Day | June 6th, 1944, the Allied invasion of France at Normandy |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe Day May 8th, 1945 |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of the Broken Glass," Nazi led mobs attacked Jewish communities all over Germany |
| David Ben-Gurion | Worked for the creation of the state of Israel, became Israel's first Prime Minister |
| Kwame Nkrumah | Worked to remove the British imperialist from Africa. Became the first Prime Minister of Ghana |
| Jomo Kenyatta | Used non-violent methods to end oppressive laws against the Africans, later became the first Prime Minister of Kenya |
| Franklin Roosevelt | Wartime President of the United States, declared December 7th, as a "date, which will live in infamy." |
| Winston Churchill | Wartime Prime Minister of Britain rallied the British people to resist Hitler and the Nazis |
| Collaborator | Person who cooperates with the enemy |
