| A | B |
|---|
| George Orwell | Pseudonym |
| Eric High Blair | Birth name |
| India | Birth place |
| 1903 | Birth year |
| England | Prep school country |
| charity case | Derogatory term of childhood poverty |
| underdog | Supposed to lose; Orwell identified with this |
| Eton | Prep school |
| Imperial Police | Job after college |
| imperialism | Rule of a country by the king of another country |
| Burma | City of imperialist job |
| Paris | City of early writing career |
| Burmese Days | Early book by Orwell |
| 1936 | Year Orwell went to Spain |
| Spanish Civil War | Subject of newspaper articles in Spain |
| Francisco Franco | Dictator of Spain |
| militia | Orwell's anti-Franco job |
| Leon Trotsky | Man whose ideas spurred the Communists of Spain |
| Farm | England place where Orwell grew vegetables and raised animals |
| Utopia | Perfect society |
| Dystopia | Failed perfect society |
| Home Guard | Non-WWI job at home |
| British Ministry of Information | Insisted BBC play up Bolshevism |
| BBC | Primarily TV company in England |
| Bolshevism | Belief represented by a faction of the former Menshevik (Majority) party |
| 1945 | Publishing year of Animal Farm |
| 1984 | Setting year of an Orwell novel |
| 1950 | Death year |
| Jonathan Swift | English author; Gulliver's Travels |
| Charles Dickens | English author; Great Expectations |
| Arthur Koestler | Wrote Darkness at noon |
| totalitarianism | the state regulates all aspects of public and private life |
