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Totalitarianism: a concept used to describe political systems whereby a state regulates nearly every aspect of public and private life.
Fascism: an authoritarian nationalist ideology focused on solving economic, political, and social problems that its supporters see as causing national decline or decadence.
Nazism: the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Neutrality Acts: a series of laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II.
Appeasement: the policy of settling international quarrels by admitting and satisfying grievances through rational negotiation and compromise, thereby avoiding the resort to an armed conflict which would be expensive, bloody, and possibly dangerous.
Blitzkrieg: a military doctrine of an all-mechanized force concentrating its attack on a small section of the enemy front then, once the latter is pierced, proceeding without regard to its flank.
Atlantic Charter: the essential blue-print for the Post War world and is the foundation for many of the international treaties and organizations that currently shape the world.
Rationing: the controlled distribution of resources and scarce goods or services.
Kamikaze: suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied shipping, in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, to destroy as many warships as possible.
Tuskegee Airmen: the popular name of a group of African American pilots who flew with distinction during World War II as the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps.
442nd Regimental Combat Team: an Asian American unit composed of mostly Japanese Americans who fought in Europe during the Second World War.
Joseph Stalin: the Soviet Union under Stalin signed a

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