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- 2. the belief that any violence, including war, is unjustifiable under any circumstances, and that all disputes should be settled by peaceful means.
- 4. political union of Austria with Germany
- 7. a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.
- 8. a group of 31 countries from Europe and North America that exists to protect the people and territory of its members
- 9. destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
- 10. a border area of Czechoslovakia containing a majority ethnic German population as well as all of the Czechoslovak Army's defensive positions in event of a war with Germany
- 11. a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution. The term is most strongly associated with the several hundred camps established by the Nazis in Germany and occupied Europe in 1933–45, among the most infamous being Dachau, Belsen, and Auschwitz.
- 13. the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.
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- 1. the action or process of appeasing.
- 3. an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
- 5. proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
- 6. set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies
- 12. component of the German armed forces tasked with the air defense of Germany and fulfillment of the country's airpower commitments abroad.