Unit 6 - Vocabulary Review - MWH

A military conflict thought by some scholars to be the true start of World War II.

Satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.

“Living space”. Territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against Chinese people during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

A genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered some six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews.

German for “lightning war”; a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II.

A military campaign of World War II, in which the Royal Air Force defended Great Britain against attacks by Nazi Germany's air force, the Luftwaffe.

A series of military trials, held by the Allied Powers under international law after World War II.

A research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.