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Vocabulary
Test 2
Abdicate

To give up or hand over a throne, right,
claim, responsibility; usually in a formal
manner.
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
abdicated in 1918
Annexation

The adding of a region to the territory of
an existing country/state.
Assimilation

a policy in which a nation forces or
encourages a subject people to adopt its
institutions and customs
Blitzkrieg

: ‘lightening war’- a form
of warfare in which
surprise attacks with
fast-moving airplanes are
followed by massive
attacks with infantrymen
Blockade

the use of troops or ships to prevent
commercial traffic from entering or leaving
a region
Depression

A period during
which business,
employment, and
stock-market values
decline severely or
remain at a very low
level of activity.
Dictator

A person exercising
total power, especially
a ruler who has
absolute unrestricted
control in a
government without
family succession.
Ghetto

Small, overcrowded, segregated Jewish
areas.
Peasant

An unsophisticated, impolite, uneducated
person of little financial means.
Persecute

To pursue with
harassing or cruel
treatment, esp.
because of religion.
Propaganda

Information or
material spread to
advance a cause or
to damage an
opponent’s cause.
Purge

To rid of whatever is contaminated or
undesirable; cleanse; purify.
Rationing

The limiting of amounts
of goods people can buyoften imposed
governments during
wartime, when goods are
in short supply.
Regime

A style or system of rule or government
Retreat

The forced or planned withdrawal of an
army or an armed force before an enemy,
or the withdrawing of a naval force from
action.