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| Guernica | Famous painting by Pablo Picasso commemorating of a Spanish town |
| Appeasement | Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep peace. |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister during WWII |
| Blitzkrieg | German term for “lightning warfare” |
| Battle of the Bulge | Famous painting by Pablo Picasso commemorating of a Spanish town Hitler’s last ditch effort to repel the invading allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945. |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | WWII Pacific battle; United States and Japanese forces fought to a standoff |
| Midway Island | carrier force WWII Pacific battle; decisive US victory over powerful Japanese |
| Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following the defeat of French armies by the |
| Yalta Conference | Meeting among the leaders of the US, Britain and the Soviet Union in 1945; agreed to Soviet entry into the Pacific war in return for the division of political organization in the Eastern European states. possession of Manchuria; organization of the United Nations; disputed |
| Potsdam Conference | Meeting of leaders of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union just before the end of WWII in 1945; Allies agreed upon Soviet among victorious allies. domination in eastern Europe; Germany and Austria to be divided |
| Holocaust | Term for Hitler’s genocide of European Jews during WWII |
| United Nations | International peace keeping organization |
| Cold War | War of ideas/words – no actual fighting |
| Marshall Plan | US policy establishing that help would be given to free peoples around the world in the resistance to oppression. |
| Hiroshima | Japanese city bombed on 8/6/1945 |
