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1. General Francisco Franco - Franco was a Spanish military leader and statesman who ruled as the dictat or of Spain from 1936 until his death. 2. Falange - This is the name assigned to several Spanish political movements and parties dating from the 1930s. 3. International Brigades – These were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.

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1. General Francisco Franco - Franco was a Spanish military leader and statesman who ruled as the dictat or of Spain from 1936 until his death.

2. Falange - This is the name assigned to several Spanish political movements and parties dating from the 1930s.

3. International Brigades – These were military units made up of volunteers from different countries, who traveled to Spain to fight for the Second Spanish Republic in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939.

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4. Guernica - April 26, 1937 was an aerial attack on the Basque town of Guernica, Spain, causing widespread destruction and civilian deaths, during the Spanish Civil War.

5. Stresa Front - The Stresa Front was an agreement made in Stresa, a town on the banks of Lake Maggiore in Italy, between French foreign minister Pierre Laval, British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, and Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini on April 14, 1935.

6. Greater East Asian Co-Pros. Sphere – This was an imperial concept created and promulgated for occupied Asian populations during the first third of the Shōwa period by the government and military of the Empire of Japan.

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7. Lebensraum - The Nazis supported territorial expansionism to gain Lebensraum, as being a law of nature for all healthy and vigorous peoples of superior races to displace people of inferior races.

8. Appeasement - s a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to a dictatorial power (or powers) in order to avoid a threatened conflict. The term is most often applied to the foreign policy of the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain towards Nazi Germany between 1937 and 1939.

9. Remilitarization of the Rhineland - The remilitarization of the Rhineland by the German Army took place on 7 March 1936 when German military forces entered the Rhineland. (This was significant because it broke the Treaty of Versailles.)

10. Sudetenland - This refers to those northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers, specifically the border districts of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia located within Czechoslovakia.

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11. Edvard Benes – He was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was known to be a skilled diplomat.

12. Neville Chamberlain - usually known as Neville Chamberlain, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

13. Munich Conference - The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia's areas along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.

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14. The Nazi-Soviet Pact - Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union met and signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggres sion Pact, which guaranteed that the two countries would not attack each other.

15. Blitzkrieg – This is a military term that is used for using all motorized vehicles such as tanks to airplanes, to rush the enemy lines at one time to break the defenses and move offensively more quickly.

16. Panzer - This is a German language word that means either tank or armour.

17. Luftwaffe - The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the German Wehrmacht during World War II.

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18. Phony War - The Phoney War was a phase early in World War II that was marked by a lack of major military operations by the Western Allies (the United Kingdom and France) against the German Reich.

19. Dunkirk - From 26 May to 4 June 1940 the battle of Dunkirk was fought between the Allies and the German forces.

20. Charles De Gaulle - It is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970), leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic. (This is Frances largest airport)

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21. Vichy France - the German victory in the Battle of France (July 1940) to the Allied liberation in August 1944.

22. Collaborators - The pursuit of Nazi collaborators refers to the post-World War II pursuit and apprehension of individuals who were not citizens of the Third Reich at the outbreak of World War II and collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.

23. Battle of Britain - The Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940.

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24. Operation Sea lion - Was Nazi Germany's plan to invade the United Kingdom during the Second World War following the Fall of France.