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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aircraft Carriers | An aircraft carrier is a large ship that has a long, flat deck on which planes land on. |
| Atomic Bomb | An atomic bomb is an explosive weapon that causes great destruction. |
| Barracks | A barrack is a building used to house people temporarily. |
| Defense Industries | The defense industry is made up of businesses that produce weapons and other equipment for fighting in wars. |
| Gas Chambers | A gas chamber was a room that was filled up with poison gas to kill people. |
| Holocaust | The holocaust was the mass murder of Jews and other people during World War 2. |
| Internment Camps | An interment camp was a place where japanese americans living in the west coast were sent and held as prisoners by the government during World War 2. |
| Liberated | To liberate means to set free. |
| Pacifism | Pacifism is the belief that wars are wrong and that disbutes should be settled peacefully. |
| Rationed | To ration is to limit the amount of items allowed. |
| Recycling | To recycle means to make an item fit to be used again. |
| Stategy | A strategy is a plan for winning a war. |
| Zionism | Zionism is the belief that jews should have theif own country in palestine, or present day israel. |
| Arms Race | The arms Race is a competition between countries to build the largest military forces. |
| Berlin Airlift | The berlin airlift was a mission by the united states and great britain to deliver supplies to west berlin by plane when the soviet union would not allow supplies to come in by land. |
| Cold War | The Cold War was a political and economic struggle between the united states and the soviet union that lasted from 1945 until about 1989. |
| Containment | Containment was president harry truman's policy to keep communism from spreading. |
| Iron Curtain | The iron curtain was a term that described the political division between eastern and western europe during the cold war. |
| McCarthyism | McCarthyism named for Senetor Joseph McCarthy is the policy of falsely accusing people of working against the government. |
| Satellite | A satellite is an object that orbits the planet. |
| Superpowers | A superpower is a powerful nation, such as the united states, whose actions and policies affect many other countries. |
| Truce | A truce is an agreement between enemies to stop fighting. |
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