| A | B |
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| totalitarianism | government control over every aspect of pub lic and private life |
| appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war. |
| Anschluss | was the Nazi propaganda term for the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in March 1938. |
| blitzkrieg | “lightning war”- a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces. |
| Lebensraum | “living space” the additional territory that , according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded. |
| internment | putting a person in prison or other kind of detention, generally in wartime. During World War II, the American government put Japanese-Americans in internment camps, fearing they might be loyal to Japan. |
| Containment | US foreign Policy adopted by US president Harry Truman in the late 1940s in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances. |
| brinkmanship | a policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression. |
| Iron Curtain | during the cold war the boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe form the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe |
| Marshal Plan | a US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII |
| United Nations | an international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world. |
| Cold War | the state of diplomatic hostility between the US and the Soviet Union in the decades following 1945. |
