Term used by the German occupation power for the destruction of entire villages and execution of their inhabitants in retaliation for the (suspected) participation in resistance actions or granting support to partisans. Introduction of the principle of collective responsibility through a decree on "counteracting acts of violence in the GG" of 31-09-1939 and Himmler's decree on "counteracting criminal gangs" of 30-09-1942. The operations were carried out by units of SS, Gestapo and military police as it suited the occupants; larger operations were supported by the German army. A total of 440 villages in Poland were destructed and their inhabitants killed in this way.

the policy which attempted to eliminate Vietcong influence in villages in South Vietnam to try and win the peasants over to the side of the Republic. It failed.

the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined; "a wonderful skill in the pacification of crying infants"; "his unsuccessful mollification of the mob"

The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation.

a treaty to cease hostilities; "peace came on November 11th"

actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency