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An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations | League of Nations
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The treaty which officially ended WWI and which punished Germany severely for its role in the conflict | Treaty of Versailles
| Hitler's idea of creating 'living space' for the German people in Eastern Europe | Lebensraum
| The fascist leader of Germany from 1933-45 | Adolf Hitler
| The French and British policy of giving in to Germany's demands in order to prevent war | Appeasement
| The union of Germany and Austria banned by the Treaty of Versailles | Anschluss
| Leader of the USSR during WWII | Joseph Stalin
| British Prime Minister before WWII; claimed to have achieved 'peace in our time' | Neville Chamberlain
| Literally 'lightening war'; a fast-moving, mobile technique of warfare used by Germany in WWII | Blitzkrieg
| The codename for the German invasion of Russia in 1941 | Operation Barbarossa
| An American naval base in Hawaii destroyed in a sneak attack by the Japanese on 6 December 1941 | Pearl Harbour
| A jungle track in Papua New Guinea along which Australians fought a successful series of battles against the Japanese | Kokoda Trail
| Australia's Prime Minister during WWII | John Curtin
| Hitler's plan to systematically murder the entire Jewish population of Europe in death camps | Final Solution to the Jewish Problem
| The deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group | Genocide
| The biggest Nazi death camp of all; located in Poland | Auschwitz
| The mass invasion of France on 6 June 1944 by the Allied Forces in order to push German troops out of occupied Europe | D-Day
| A secret US project dedicated to the construction of the first nuclear weapons | Manhattan Project
| The first Japanese city to be targeted by an atomic bomb; destroyed on 6 August 1945 | Hiroshima
| 'Night of Broken Glass' on 9 November 1938 in which the Nazi Government promoted a night of violence against German Jews | Kristallnacht |