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Appeasement
Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.[1] The term is most often applied[by whom?] to the foreign policy of the UK governments of Prime Ministers Ramsay MacDonald (in office: 1929-1935), Stanley Baldwin (in office: 1935-1937) and (most notably) Neville Chamberlain in office: 1937-1940) towards Nazi Germany (from 1933) and Fascist Italy (established in 1922)[2] between 1935 and 1939.
Nazi Party
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Alternative Titles: NSDAP, National Socialist German Workersâ Party, National-Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
Nazi Party, byname of National Socialist German Workersâ Party, German Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (NSDAP), political party of the mass movement known as National Socialism. Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, the party came to power in Germany in 1933 and governed by totalitarian methods until 1945.
Fascism
political ideology and mass movement that dominated many parts of central, southern, and eastern Europe between 1919 and 1945 and that also had adherents in western Europe, the United States, South Africa, Japan, Latin America, and the Middle East. Europeâs first fascist leader, Benito Mussolini, took the name of his party from the Latin word fasces, which referred to a bundle of elm or birch rods (usually containing an ax) used as a symbol of penal authority in ancient Rome.
operation barbarossa
Watch the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the German Wehrmacht invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Watch the launch of Operation Barbarossa, the German Wehrmacht invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941
Nazi Germany invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa, June 22, 1941.
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Operation Barbarossa, original name Operation Fritz, during World War II, code name for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which was launched on June 22, 1941. The failure of German troops to defeat Soviet forces in the campaign signaled a crucial turning point in the war.
holocaust
Holocaust, Hebrew ShoĘžah (âCatastropheâ), Yiddish and Hebrew Ḥurban (âDestructionâ), the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by NaziGermany and its collaborators during World War II. The Germans called this âthe final solution to the Jewish question.â Yiddish-speaking Jews and survivors in the years immediately following their liberation called the murder of the Jews the Ḥurban, the word used to describe the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 586 BCE and the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in 70 CE.
