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| A system of government that promotes extreme nationalism, repression, anticommunism, and is ruled by a dictator. |
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| Name of German National Socialist Party, which gained control of Germany in 1933 under the leadership of Adolf Hitler. |
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| War crime trials held in Nuremburg after World War II to try the surviving Nazis concerning the Holocaust, aggressive war making, mistreatment of prisoners among other things. |
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| The policy of pacifying an aggressive nation in the hopes of avoiding further conflict. |
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| The hatred of people of Jewish descent. |
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Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II.
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Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II.
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| The massive air war against Great Britain by the Nazi war machine in Germany. Nearly nightly bombings occurred between summer of 1940 and summer of 1941 before German withdrew. Great Britain fought alone during this year and never gave up. |
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| German word meaning lightning war. It was a German army tactic during World War II which called for quick moving, hard hitting drives into enemy territory |
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