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Chapter 26 Vocabulary Terms: World War II
Totalitarianism a form of government in which every aspect of citizen's lives are
controlled by the government
facism
a political system in which the state or government is seen as more
important than the individual
Nazis
the National Socialist Party of Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler
appeasement the policy of giving into the demands of a nation in order to avoid war
internment
the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in special camps during
World War II
island hopping the strategy used by U.S. forces in the Pacific during World War II
that involved taking only strategically important islands
kamikaze
Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions during World War II
Holocaust
a program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to kill all Jews
genocide
the complete destruction of a racial or ethnic minority
atomic bomb
a weapon that receives its explosive power from the splitting of atoms