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Axis
A make-believe line
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Axis Powers?
The alliance of Germany, Italy and Japan
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What is "appeasement"?
Making another country "content"
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What is a "front"?
The border where the actual fighting is taking place.
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What is a Blitzkrieg?
German for "Lightning War", it is a quick and forceful method of attack against an enemy.
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What is an arsenal?
Place where weapons are kept.
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What is a destroyer?
A small, fast warship.
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What is the Lend-Lease program?
FDR's program to allow Britain to get supplies, weapons and soldiers from the U.S. during WWII
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What is it to "occupy" a country?
To take over and stay in a place.
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What is "resistance"?
Groups of people who used "hit and run" tactics against the Nazis.
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What is "guerrilla warfare"?
Small, quick attacks against an enemy.
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What is "D-Day"?
This is the day the Allies invaded Europe, in Normandy, France.
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What is a "kamikaze"?
Japanese pilot trained to use his plane as a bomb, and run into Allied ships.
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What is "V-E" day?
"Victory in Europe" day.
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What is "V-J" day?
"Victory in Japan" day
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What is the "Holocaust"?
The extermination of millions of people by the Germans.
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What is a "ghetto"?
A place where millions of Jews were sent to live, to get them out of German society.
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What is "genocide"?
The mass murder of groups of people, usually based on their religion or ethnicity.
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What is a concentration camp?
A prison death camp.
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What is a refugee?
A person who is forced to flee from their own country.
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What is a "Superpower"?
A nation that is stronger and more powerful than most other nations.
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What is a "Satellite"?
A country that is tightly controlled by another country.
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What is the United Nations?
A group of nations that work to settle disagreements between countries.
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What is a charter?
A constitution, a set of statements that describe a group's purpose
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What is "trust territory"?
Territory taken from the countries that lost WWI and WWII