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| spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
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| A system of government in which a single, totalitarian, party holds power. It is characterized by state control of the economy, and restriction on personal freedoms. It was first proposed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in The Communist Manifesto. |
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| Hitler's "lightening war" that utilized improved tank and air power technology to strike a devastating blow against the enemy |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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| (NATO) US, Canada, and nine other counties formed a new military alliance in 1949, pledging to help one another if any were attacked |
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agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 in which the two nations promised not to fight each other and to divde up land in Eastern Europe |
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| US policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism |
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| Victory in Europe Day, May 8, 1945, the day the allies won WWII in Europe |
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| state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict |
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| code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII |
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| Coastal, southern Japanese city on the island of Kyushu, where the second atomic bomb "Fat Man" was dropped in August, 1945 |
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the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during WWII
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| massive aid package offered by the United States to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII |
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| penalties placed on Germany |
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| code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France during WWII, June 6, 1944 |
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| the plan of a union of Austria and Germany by Hitler |
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| giving in to the demands of the aggressor in order to keep peace |
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| city in southern Germany where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 1932, and where Nazi war crimes trials were held after WWII |
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| during WWII, Allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while by-passing others |
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Allowed the president of the US (FDR) to sell or lend war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the US
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| during WWII, the forced march of Filipino and American prisoners of war under brutal conditions by the Japanese military |
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| a region of western Czechoslovakia, with a population of 3 million German's that Hitler wanted annexed to Germany. |
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| Germany, Italy and Japan, three nations agreed to fight Soviet communism |
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| Japanese pilot who under took a suicide mission |
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| 1955, Soviet Union responded to NATO by forming it's own military alliance, including Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe |
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| Mid-sized Japanese city where the first atomic bomb "Little Boy" was dropped in August, 1945 |
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| forbid the sale of arms to any nation at war, outlawed loans to warring nations, prohibited Americans from traveling on ships of warring powers |
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| deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
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