| A | B |
|---|
| Anschluss | Political union between Austria and Germany |
| Anti-semitism | Hatred of Jews |
| Armistice | Agreement to cease fighting |
| Aryan | Nazi term for a non-Jewish German |
| Annexe | To take over another country |
| Blitzkreig | German term for lightning war |
| Brownshirts | Common name for the SA |
| Concentration Camp | Nazi forced labour and later extermination camps |
| Censorship | Restriction of free speech |
| Conscription | The forced enlistment of men into the army |
| Great Depression | An extended period of economic decline from 1929 - 1935 |
| Dictatorship | Rule by one all-powerful person or group |
| Einsatzgruppen | SS Special Action Squads who killed many civilians in WWII |
| Euthanasia | The so-called mercy killing of mentally and physically disabled people by the Nazis |
| Fascism | Exterme nationalist political movement (i.e. Mussolini in Italy) |
| Final Solution | Nazi term for the policy of exterminating the Jews |
| Freikorps | Right-wing group of ex-soldiers in 1919-1920 |
| Gauleiter | Leader of a region in Nazi Germany |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police |
| Gleichschaltung | Nazi policy of co-ordinating everything under state control |
| Hitler Youth | Nazi Youth organisation |
| Holocaust | Mass slaughter-the killing of over 6 million Jews by the Nazis |
| Hyperinflation | Massive rise in the price of goods |
| Industrialists | Rich and powerful businessmen often with considerable political influence |
| Elite | Powerful groups at the top of society |
| Lebensraum | German term for living space in Eastern Europe |
| Luftwaffee | German airforce |
| Genocide | The killing of a whole race |
| Ghetto | A special section of a city where Jews were forced to live |
| Diktat | Term given to the enforced peace at Versailles |
| Mein Kampf | Hitler's political testament |
| Nationalism | Belief that a nation should rule itself |
| NSDAP | National Socialist Workers' Party (Nazi Party) |
| Nuremburg Laws | Series of anti-semitic laws passed in Germany in 1935 |
| Proportional Representation | The system of government used in Weimar Germany |
| Reichstag | German parliament |
| Reparations | Compensation payments enforced on Germany after WWI |
| Ruhr Valley | Industrial area of Germany |
| Rhineland | Demilitarised zone under the treaty of Versailles |
| Sturm Abteilung | The SA |
| Spartacists | Communist revolutionary German group |
| Swastika | Nazi symbol |
| Third Reich | Name for the period of Nazi rule |
| Volksgemeinschaft | Nazi ideal of a people's community |
| Fuhrer | German term for leader adopted by Hitler |
| Chancellor | Prime Minister of Germany |
| Coalition | Government formed from more than one party |
| Communist | Believing in a society where everyone is equal and there is no private property |
| Conservative | Favouring little change in society and maintaining the status-quo |
| Constitution | Document setting out the basic laws of how a country could be run |
| Militarism | Admiration for the army and its values |
| Plebiscite | A referendum to gauge people's wishes |
| Propaganda | Means of spreading political ideas |
| Purge | To remove unwanted groups or people |
| Putsch | A plot to overthrow a government |
| Radical | An extreme view |
| Republic | A country which has a President as head not a monarch |
| Schutzstaffel | German name for the SS (Hitler's elite bodyguard) |
| Wehrmacht | German Army |
| Conservative | Being in favour of the status-quo/little change |
