Section 1: Paths to War
Vocabulary:
Demilitarized: Eliminate or prohibit weapons, fortifications, and other military installations.
Appeasement: Satisfying demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability.
Sanction: A restriction intended to enforce international law.
Section 2: Th e Course of World War II
Vocabulary:
Blitzkrieg: A swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during World War II.
Partisan: A resistance fighter in World War II.
Section 3: The New Order and the Holocaust
Vocabulary:
Genocide: The deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group.
Collaborator: A person who assists the enemy.
Section 4: The Home Front and the Aftermath of the War
Vocabulary:
Mobilization: The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war.
Kamikaze: A suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their airplanes into U.S. fighting ships at sea.
Cold War: The period of political tension following World War II and ending with the fall of Communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s.