| A | B |
|---|
| conscription | required military service |
| appeasement | giving in to the "reasonable demands" of a nation to avoid war |
| dictator | a strong leader who rules a country by force |
| Auschwitz | German run death camp in Poland |
| D-Day | an invasion led by Allied soldiers against the German positions in Normandy, France |
| genocide | killing of an entire group of people b/c of their racial, political or cultural group |
| demilitarized zone | an area where no military troops are allowed |
| totalitarian | a gov't whose leaders try to control the way citizens think & live |
| purpose of D-Day | to attack German forces & push them out of France |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning warfare", sudden attacks at one place along the border |
| non-aggression pact | Hitler & Stalin agreement to not invade each other & would divide Poland |
| propaganda | spread of ideas to advance your own cause;can be exaggerated facts or even lies |
| Dec. 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked on this day by the Japanese |
| final solution | Nazi plan to get rid of the entire Jewish population |
| Manhattan Project | the secret research on the atomic bomb in the U.S. during World War II |
| inflation | when too much money is printed and it loses its value |
| scapegoat | Jews were blamed for Germany’s economic problems & hardships after WW I |
| neutrality | the policy of not taking sides |
| Gestapo | secret police of Germany under the Nazis |
| kristallnacht | “night of broken glass” when Nazi thugs took out their anger on Jews by destroying their homes & businesses & sending them off to concentration camps |
