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| Anschluss | The German union with Austria, which was forbidden under terms of the Treaty of Versailles. |
| Appeasement | The policy practiced by Britain (and France) before World War Two where they gave in to the demands of Nazi Germany to avoid going to war. |
| Collective security | A system by which nations have attempted to prevent or stop wars. Under this arrangement, an aggressor against any one state is considered an aggressor against all other states, which act together to repel the aggressor. |
| Isolationism | A foreign policy, mainly of the USA, where the nation kept out of world foreign affairs. |
| Night of the Long Knives | The murder of the SA (stormtrooper) leadership that eventually gave Hitler full authority over the German army. |
| sanctions | Conditions placed upon a nation in order to punish it, mainly economically. |
| self determination | One of Wilson's 14 Points that encouraged world leaders to let the people form their own state and chose their own government rather than have it imposed upon them. |
| sphere of Influence | An area of political, cultural, economic and military domination. Disputes occur when one nation and another claim the area as their own, like Japan vs the United States. |
| Sudetenland | Given to Hitler in the Munich Agreement (Conference) by Britain, France and Italy. No Czechs were invited.,  |
| Rhineland | Germany was forbidden from placing soldiers in this region next to the French border. |
| Enabling Act | In 1933 it enabled Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his cabinet to enact laws without the participation of the Reichstag giving Hitler dictatorial powers which he said were needed to avoid a communist revolution. |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization | a military alliance with 26 members (including the USA, Canada, Britain, and Germany) whose mebers believe in collective security and who have forces in Afghanistan. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Held in a German city by the Allies to place Nazi war criminals before a panel of judges. |
| Total War | An all-out affort by a nation to win at all costs, using whatever means necessary to win. |
| Battle of Britain | The Germans called it Operation Sea Lion whose goal was to attack the nation across the English Channel. |
| D-Day | Code named Operation Overlord, on June 6, 1944 the Allies attacked the Normandy coast. |
| Dunkirk | A situation where British and French forces were trapped and had to be rescued. |
| Italian Campaign | In 1943 the Italians surrendered but the Germans continued the fight. Mussolini was overthrown and later executed while the Allies gradually went for the "groin" of Germany. |
| Manchuria | Attacked by Japan between the wars, this place complained to the League which proved to be powerless to stop the aggression. |
| Operation Barbarossa | A huge land battle in the east of Europe. |
| Polish Corridor | An area including Danzig, all of which included ethnic Germans and former German territory.,  |
| Potsdam Conference | A meeting held between the leaders of the USA, GB, and the USSR to determine what to do with Germany after WWII and determine the terms of surrender for Japan. |
| Treaty of Versailles | The result of the Paris Peace Conference. |
| Neville Chamberlain | The British prime minister responsible for negotiating the Munich Agreement with Hitler, and a chief advocate of appeasement.,  |
| Winston Churchill | The inspirational leader of Britain for most of WW II. |
| Weimer Republic | The government in place after WW I which had to deal with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, economic depression and the rise of the Nazi Party. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact 1939 | A surprise, non-aggression agreement signed in late August 1939 between Hitler and Stalin. |
