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| Isolationism | A policy where a country does not make agreements or work with another country. |
| Annexation | The formal act of acquiring territory by conquest or occupation. |
| Scapegoat | A person or group of people on whom is blamed for other’s problems (line in WWII, Jews for Germany) |
| VE-Day | Victory in Europe Day – May 8, 1945. |
| VJ-Day | Victory over Japan Day – August 15, 1945. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Nazi war crime trials held in 1945 and 1946. |
| Blitzkreig | “Lightning War” swift attacks launched by Germany in WWII during the night. |
| Axis | WWII military alliance of Italy, Japan, Germany and 6 other countries. |
| Allies | WWII military alliance of Britain, France, Soviet Union, China, U.S., and 45 other countries. |
| Yalta Conference | A conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of WWII and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. |
| Anschluss | German annexation of Austria in March 1938. |
| Rationing | Civilians could only buy a certain number of goods so that the majority of these goods could be sent abroad for the war effort. (Ex. Gasoline, shoes, tires, sugar, meat) |
| Concentration Camps | Prison camp for civilians who are considered enemies of the state (Ex. Jews) |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | Agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin in 1939 in which the two dictators agreed not to attack each other. |
| Third Reich | The German state under Hitler’s rule form 1933-1945. |
| Island Hopping | During WWII, Allied strategy of capturing Japanese-held islands to gain control of the Pacific Ocean. (American ships shelled an island; troops waded ashore; hand-to-hand fighting occurred until island was captured.) |
| Kamikaze | WWII Japanese pilots trained to make a suicidal crash attack, usually upon a ship. |
| Luftwaffe | The German Air Force |
| Panzer | German tank |
| Churchill | The Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII. |
| Roosevelt | The President of the US during WWII. |
| Refugee | A person who has to flee his or her home because of persecution or war. |
| Nazi | A member of Hitler’s National Socialist Party in Germany, which promoted racist, authoritarian ideas. |
| D-Day | Day of the invasion of Western Europe by Allied forces – June 6, 1944. Allied forces landed at France, freed Paris; slowly advanced to Germany) |
| Appeasement | Practice of giving in to aggression in order to avoid war. (Ex. Hitler taking land that did not belong to him & France and England agreeing to it) |
| Anti-Semitism | Prejudice against or hatred of Jews. |
| Genocide | The systematic murder of many people from the same racial or cultural group. |
| War Bond | A government issued savings bond, sold to raise $ during a war. (People give $ to the government for a bond & the government promises to pay back the $, with interest, after the war.) |
| Final Solution | A Nazi government program that intended to kill millions of Jews & other “inferior” peoples who were considered to be enemies of Germany. |
| Genocide | The systematic murder of many people from the same racial or cultural group. |
| Holocaust | The mass murder of 6 million Jews and 5 million other minority groups by the Nazis. |
