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Social Studies
Chapter 5 Terms
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History
11th Grade
12/16/2010

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totalitarian state
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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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Nazis
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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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Holocaust
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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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policy of appeasement
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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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total war
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the mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war
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Allies
Definition
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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Axis
Definition
alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan
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Dunkirk
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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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Battle of Britain
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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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Pearl Harbor
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the Japanese bombing of the U.S. naval base in Hawaii
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Battle of Hong Kong
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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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Battle of the Atlantic
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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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Bomber Command
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the section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany
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Dieppe Raid
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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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Italian Campaign
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1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy
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D-Day
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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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genocide
Definition
the systematic extermination of a religious or ethnic group
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Liberating the Netherlands
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once the allied forces had reached the rhine river and germany, the canadians were given a seperate task.. liberating the netherlands, it was a difficult job
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enemy alien
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a national living in a country that is at war with his/her homeland
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arsenal of democracy
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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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