| A | B |
|---|
| aggressive | to attack, to go after |
| appease | to give in to - to try to satisfy |
| alliance | to make friends with in case you're attacked by someone else |
| Allies | the US, France, Great Britain, & Russia/USSR |
| Alsace-Lorraine | coal rich area of eastern France |
| Anschluss | the union of Germany & Austria in World War II |
| anti-Semitism | going against the Jews |
| autonomy | independence |
| self-determination | wanting to rule yourself |
| Balkan Peninsula | southeastern Europe - site of the beginning of World War I |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy 1930s |
| Hitler | fascist/Nazi leader of Germany 1930s |
| Holocaust | Hitler's deliberate attempt to wipe out the Jews |
| genocide | the deliberate attempt to wipe out/get rid of a group of people |
| League of Nations | after World War I - world organization - failed not teeth to it |
| militarism | building up an army |
| nationalism | believing in, & supporting your nation |
| Neville Chamberlain | leader of Great Britain in 1930s - gave in to Hitler |
| Winston Churchill | strong leader of Great Britain 1940s - stood up to Hitler |
| Prime Minister | the leader of a nation - like the U.S. President |
| scorched earth policy | Russians burnt everything - homes, fields, rather than let the enemy get it |
| Sick Man of Europe | the Ottoman Empire around 1915/1917 |
| slavs | an ethnic group in Eastern Europe & Russia |
| Treaty of Versailles | it ended World War I - put harsh peace terms on Germany & thus helped start World War II |
| trench warfare | ditches dug in France in World War I - it dragged out the war |
| United Nations | formed after World War II - world peacekeeping organization |
| Weimar Republic | weak German government following World War I |
