Kellog-Briand

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Kellog-briand

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a 1928 international agreement in which signatory states promised not to use war to resolve “disputes or conflicts of whatever nature or of whatever origin they may be, which may arise among them.”

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Ethiopia

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Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley.

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Appeasement

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the action or process of appeasing.

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Axis powers

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The Axis powers, also known as the Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, were the nations that fought in World War II against the Allied Powers.

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Allied Powers

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The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War.

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Munich Conference

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An agreement between Britain and Germany in 1938, under which Germany was allowed to extend its territory into parts of Czechoslovakia in which German-speaking peoples lived.

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Anti-Comitern

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an anti-communist pact concluded between Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan .

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German-soviet nonaggression pact

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A treaty made by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 that opened the way for both nations to invade Poland.

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Sanction

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a threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

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Demilitarized

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remove all military forces from (an area).

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Winston churchill

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a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Pearl Harbor

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The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941.

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Sudetenland

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the German name to refer to those northern, southern, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited primarily by ethnic German speakers.

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Seige of Leningrad

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a prolonged military blockade undertaken mainly by the German Army Group North against Leningrad.

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Battle of Stalingrad

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a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia.

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Phony War

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an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front.

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Isolationist

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a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

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Battle of Britain

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a military campaign of the Second World War, when the Royal Air Force defended the United Kingdom against the German Air Force attacks from the end of June 1940.

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Lend-lease act

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in which Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to ‘any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.’”

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VEday

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the day (May 8) marking the Allied victory in Europe in 1945.

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D-day

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the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.

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New order

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a new system, regime, or government.

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Final solution

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the Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews.

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Charles De Gavlle

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a French general and statesman.

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Holocaust, Anne Frank

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The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide in which some six million European Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany, and the World War II collaborators with the Nazis.

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Auschwitz

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Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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FDR

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an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Douglas MacArthur

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an American five-star general and field marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s.

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Warsaw ghetto uprising

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany’s final effort

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Midway Highlands

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a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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Genocide

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the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.

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Poland

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an eastern European country on the Baltic Sea known for its medieval architecture and Jewish heritage.

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United Nations

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an international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among member countries.

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Kamikaze

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a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.

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Mobilization

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the action of a country or its government preparing and organizing troops for active service.

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Island hopping

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travel from one island to another, especially as a tourist in an area of small islands.

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Atomic bomb

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a bomb that derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.

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Hiroshima

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A city of southwest Honshu, Japan, on the Inland Sea west of Osaka. The city was destroyed in World War II when an American airplane dropped the first atomic bomb ever.

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Nagasaki

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Nagasaki is a Japanese city on the northwest coast of the island of Kyushu.

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Bretton Woods Conference

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a gathering of delegates from 44 nations that met from July 1 to 22, 1944 in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, to agree upon a series of new rules for the post-WWII international monetary system.

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Truman Doctrine

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the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

Question 42

VJ day

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the day (August 15) in 1945 on which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day (September 2) when Japan formally surrendered.

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Concentration camp

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a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

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Nanjing

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Nanjing, capital of China’s eastern Jiangsu province, is roughly 300km up the Yangtze River from the city of Shanghai. It was the national capital during part of the Ming dynasty.

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Atlantic Charter

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a pivotal policy statement issued during World War II on 14 August 1941, which defined the Allied goals for the post-war world.

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Operation Overload

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the code-name given to the Allied invasion of France scheduled for June 1944.

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Nuremberg Trials

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a series of military tribunals, held by the Allied forces after World War II, which were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial and economic leadership of Nazi Germany.

Question 48

Quilt India

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These were essential activities of women on the home front. During this stressful time of war, women were also making thousands of quilts.

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Bataan March

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the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 60,000–80,000 Filipino and American prisoners of war.

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King African Rifles

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a multi-battalion British colonial regiment raised from Britain’s various possessions in British East Africa in the present-day African Great Lakes region from 1902 until independence in the 1960s.

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Normandy

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a region in N France along the English Channel.

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Invasion

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an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force.

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Aggression

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hostile or violent behavior or attitudes toward another; readiness to attack or confront.

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Hailie Selassie

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was Ethiopia’s regent from 1916 to 1930 and emperor from 1930 to 1974.

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Mutilation

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the action of mutilating or being mutilated.

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Mein Kampf

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Mein Kampf is a 1925 autobiographical book by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work outlines Hitler’s political ideology and future plans for Germany.