| A | B |
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| totalitarian | type of government in which the state has absolute control over citizens and allows no opposition |
| executive order | directive having authority of a law issued by President to military or other government department |
| pacifist | person who is against war or violence |
| Holocaust | Hitler's program to exterminate the Jews |
| enlist | to enroll, usually voluntarily, for military service |
| Nazi | National Socialist party under Adolf Hitler in Germany |
| fascism | political movemnet begun by Mussolini in Italy that stresses nation and race |
| u-boat | German submarine |
| isolationism | policy that stresses freedom from foreign alliances and national self-sufficiency |
| infamy | extremely bad reputation, public reproach, or strong condemnation as the result of a shameful, criminal, or outrageous act |
| fireside chat | an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, esp. as given by FDR |
| genocide | deliberate and planned destruction of a race or cultural group |
| concentration camp | Nazi prison where prisoners, especially the Jews, were held |
| POW | prisoner of war |
| MIA | missing in action |
| fuhrer | leader, especially one exercising the powers of a tyrant; title of Hitler |
| duce | leader as applied esp. to Mussolini as head of the fascist Italian state |
| swastika | official emblem of the Nazi party and the Third Reich |
| convoy | fleet of ships that is accompanied by a protective force |
| appeasement | political policy of conceding to aggression by a warlike nation |
| blitzkrieg | sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and land forces; lightning warfare |
| Aryan | in Nazism, a non-Jewish Caucasian, especially one of Nordic type, supposed to be part of a master race |
| Third Reich | official Nazi name for their government; means Third Empire |
| alliance | agreement made between nations to support each other, esp. if attacked |
| oppression | exercise of authority or power in a burdensome, cruel, or unjust manner |
| conscientious objector | one who refuses to serve in the military because of moral or religious beliefs |
| collective security | agreement among nations to join in action against a nation that attacks any one of them |
| draft | selection from the general body of the people for military service; conscription |
| disarmament | reduction or limitation in the number of weapons of war |
| liberate | to free |
| wolf packs | swarms of German u-boats |
| quarantine | policy of isolating aggressor nations |
| embargo | to prohibit exports to a nation |
| internment camps | isolated compounds in U.S. where Japanese-Americans were held during WW II |
| anti-semitism | discrimination, prejudice, or hostility toward Jews |
| pluralism | condition in which numerous ethnic, religious, or cultural groups are tolerated within a society |
| sanction | coercive measure adopted against a nation violating international law |
| GI | member or former member of the U.S. armed forces, esp. an enlisted soldier |
| Luftwaffe | German air force before and during WW II |
| Gestapo | Nazi German secret police notorious for brutality |
| ration | to restrict the consumption of (a commodity, food, etc.) |
| annexation | the addition of territory to a country, usually by force |
| V-E Day | Victory in Europe, 5/8/1945 |
| kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots who crashed their planes into the enemy |
| Manhattan Project | top secret development of the atomic bomb |
| armistice | truce; an agreement to stop fighting |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| code talkers | Navojo radio operators who helped secure communications in the Pacific |
