| A | B |
|---|
| totalitarianism | a form of government in which every aspect of citizen's lives are controlled by the government |
| facism | a political system in which the state or government is seen as more important than the individual |
| Nazis | the National Socialist Party of Germany, headed by Adolf Hitler |
| appeasement | the policy of giving into the demands of a nation in order to avoid war |
| internment | the imprisonment of Japanese Americans in special camps during World War II |
| island hopping | the strategy used by U.S. forces in the Pacific during World War II that involved taking only strategically important islands |
| kamikaze | Japanese pilots who flew suicide missions during World War II |
| Holocaust | a program of mass murder in which the Nazis tried to kill all Jews |
| genocide | the complete destruction of a racial or ethnic minority |
| atomic bomb | a weapon that receives its explosive power from the splitting of atoms |
