| A | B |
|---|
| Totalitarianism | A governentment that exerts total control over a nation. |
| Fascism | Emphasizes the importance of the nation or an ethnic group and the supreme authority of the leader. |
| Communism | relies on strong dictatorial power but does not respect the rights and freedoms of individuals. |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union in WWII |
| Gulags | Work camps in the Soviet Union. |
| Purges | the process of removing enemies and undesirable individuals from power. |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist leader of Italy in WWII. |
| Il Duce | "The Leader" Italian |
| Black Shirts | Mussolini's thugs |
| Nazism | a form of fascism shaped by Hitler's fanatical ideals about German nationalism and racial superiority. |
| Mein Kampf | Hitlers Book |
| Reichstag | The German equivilant of the House of Representatives |
| SS | Hitlers secret police |
| Brownshirts | Hitler's thugs |
| chancellor | head of the German government |
| Der Fuher | "The Leader" German |
| autobahn | a network of highways in Germany |
| lebenstraum | living space |
| Rhineland | a region of western Germany |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Germany, Japan |
| Auschluss | Political union between Germany and Austria |
| Sudentenland | an industrial region in western Czechoslovakia. |
| appeasement | giving into a competitor's demands in order to keep peace |
| Neville Chamberlain | Leader of Great Britian at the start of WWII. "Peace in our time" |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Germany WWII |
