| A | B |
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| dictator | a leader who rules with total authority, often in a cruel or brutal manner |
| fascism | a political system, headed by a dictator; that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition |
| anti-Semitism | hostility toward or discrimination against Jews |
| appeasement | accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
| blitzkrieg | name given to the sudden, violent offensive attacks the Germans used during WWII "Lightning War" |
| lend-lease | the act passed during WWII allowing the US to sell, lend, or lease arms or other war supplies to any nation considered "vital to the defense of the US" |
| ration | to give out scarce itmes on limited basis |
| internment camp | the detention centers where Japanese Americans were moved to and confined during WWII |
| genocide | the deliberate distruction of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| Holocaust | the name given to the mass slaughter of Jews and other groups by the Nazis during WWII |
| island hopping | a strategy used during WWII that called for attacking and capturing certain key islands and using these islands as bases to leapfrog to others |
| kamikaze | during WWII a Japanese suicide pilot whose mission was to crash into his target |
