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Genocide
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The deliberate and systematic killing of an entire people
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Blitzkrieg
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Lightning war - quick, crushing surprise attacks
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Axis powers
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Germany, Italy and Japan
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Holocaust
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Nazis systematically murdered over 11 million Jews and others
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Adolph Hitler
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Nazi dictator who believed Germans were a master race
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Joseph Stalin
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Soviet dictator who signed a nonaggresion pact with Hitler and had his own expansionist ideas
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Benito Mussolini
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Italian facist dictator who formed an alliance with Hitler
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Winston Churchill
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British prime minister who opposed (was against) appeasement
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Charles de Gaulle
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French general who set up a government-in-exile when France fell to Germany
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Hideki Tojo
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Militant general who became prime minister of Japan and planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
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Facism
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Form of a nationalistic totalitarian government with a strong dictator
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Allies
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26 countries including Britain, the United States, Canada, France, and the Soviet Union
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Appeasement
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Policy signed by France and Britian allowing Germany to annex part of Czechoslavakia
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Nazism
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Racist, nationalistic, expansionist policy of Hitler's Germany
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Concentration camps
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Places where Nazi's sent the Jews to work or die
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