| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | Communist dictator of the Soviet Union |
| totalitarian | Gov't w/complete control over citizens & no opposition |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist dictator of Italy |
| fascism | Political system w/strong centralized gov't & dictator |
| Adolf Hitler | Nazi dictator of Germany |
| Nazism | Fascist political philosphy of Germany under Hitler |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist dictator of Spain |
| Neutrality Acts | Laws passed by Congress to ban the sale of arms or loans to nations at war |
| Neville Chamberlain | Prime minister of Great Britain before WWII |
| Winston Churchill | Prime minister of Great Britain during WWII |
| appeasement | Trying to pacify an aggressor in order to keep the peace |
| nonaggression pact | Afreement between Germany and Russia not to fight each other |
| blitzkrieg | Lightning war strategy used by Germany against Poland |
| Charles de Gaulle | Head of the French gov't in exile in England |
| Holocaust | Systematic murder of 11 million Jews and others by the Nazis |
| Kristallnacht | November 9, 1938, when Nazis in Germany attacked Jews, their businesses and synagogues |
| genocide | Deliberate & systematic killing of an entire people |
| ghetto | A segregated neighborhood |
| concentration camp | Nazi prison camps where Jews & others were starved while doing slave labor or murdered |
| Axis powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Lend-Lease Act | Law that allowed lending or leasing arms to any nation "whose defense was vital to the US" |
| Atlantic Charter | British & American statement of goals for fighting WWII |
| Allies | US, Britain, & the Soviet Union who opposed the Axis powers |
| Hideki Tojo | Prime minister of Japan during WWII |
