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Life During and After WWII

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victory garden
vegetable garden cultivated to increase food production during a war
genocide
deliberate, systematic extermination of a national, racial, cultural group
blitzkrieg
swift intensive military attack, usually using tanks supported by aircraft
holocaust
systematic mass slaughter of European Jews in Nazi concentration camps
Nanking Massacre
100,000s of Chinese civilians raped and murdered by Japanese troops
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reparations
making of amends for wrong or injury done
Marshall Plan
European Recovery Program; allocated US money for European reconstruction
manufacturing
making of wares by manual labor or by machinery, often on a large scale
United Nations
international organization formed to promote peace, security, cooperation
cold war
political, military, and ideological rivalry between nations, short of war
women in the workforce
increased during WWII as women took the place of many men during war years
atomic bomb
bomb using nuclear fission of atoms to create energy
pacifism
opposition to war or violence of any kind
nihilism
extreme skepticism; denial of existence or possibility of objective truth

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