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| a dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens |
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| members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party; the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state |
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| the Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War |
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| giving in to an aggressor’s demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made |
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| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) |
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| a program to train pilots and aircrew during the Second World War; it produced half of all Commonwealth aircrew and is the largest air training program in history |
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| the mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war |
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| countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War, including Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the United States and the U.S.S.R. |
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| alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| port town in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when German forces conquered France |
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| an air campaign launched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority |
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| the Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii |
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| Japan’s attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadian losses |
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| the struggle between the Allies and the Axis powers to control the Allies’ shipping route across the Atlantic Ocean |
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| the 1942 trial raid by Canadian troops against Germany’s occupation of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy losses |
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| 1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy |
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| June 6, 1944; the day Allied armies, including Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War |
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| the systematic extermination of a religious or ethnic group |
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| a national living in a country that is at war with his/her homeland |
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| a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940 promising to help the Allies fight the Germans by providing military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting |
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| Liberation of The Netherlands |
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| Once the allies reached the Rhine River, the Canadians were tasked with liberating the netherlands. |
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| the section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany |
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