| A | B |
| dictator | person who rules and has complete control over a country |
| totalitarian state | a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people |
| collective farm | government run farms that Soviets were forced to work on |
| aggression | any warlike act by one country against another without cause |
| appeasement | giving into a demand in order to keep peace |
| Nazi | Adolf Hitler |
| Fascist | Mussolini |
| Axis powers | Germany, Italy, Japan |
| Allies | Britain, France, Soviet Union, United States |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Hitler and Stalin agreed not to attack each other. |
| Communist | Stalin |
| Pearl Harbor | Place were Japan attacked the US |
| Island hopping | military plan of capturing some Japanese held islands and going around others |
| holocaust | the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazi's |
| Nuremburg Trials | trials held to punish Nazi war criminals |