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| An agreement in which nations promise not to attack each other |
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| lightning war, form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
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| a series of battles between Germany and Great Britain air forces fought over Britain |
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| A declaration of principles issues in August, 1941 by the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt on which the allied peace plan at the end of WWII was based |
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| Sea and air battle in which U.S. forces defeat Japanese forces in central Pacific |
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| Allied troops drove Japanese forces from pacific island of Guadalcanal |
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| To the Nazis, the germanic people who formed a "master race" |
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| A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians carried out by the Nazi government of Germany |
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| The night of broken glass, when the Nazi storm troopers attacked homes, businesses, and synagogues (Jewish ones) |
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| City neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live |
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| Program of genocide to kill off all Jews |
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| The systematic killing of an entire people |
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| The day the allies began their invasion of the European mainland |
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| Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink allied ships by crashing bomb filled planes into them |
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| A serious of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of rules of war and crimes against humanity |
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| A reduction in a country's ability to wage war by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
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| the process of creating a government elected by the people |
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