| A | B |
|---|
| appeasement | Giving in to the demands of an aggressor nation to keep the peace. |
| Munich Conference | British and French leaders choose appeasement and gave into Hitler's demands by persuading the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland without a fight. |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | Publicly, Hitler and Stalin pledged peaceful relations. Secretly, the two agreed not to fight one another if the other went to war AND to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. |
| Adolf Hitler | The leader of Nazi Germany. |
| Joseph Stalin | The leader of the Soviet Union. |
| Benito Mussolini | The fascist leader of Italy. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The president of the United States. |
| Axis Powers | Mainly Germany, Italy and Japan. |
| Allied Powers | Included Great Britain, France, the Soviet Unioun, China, the U.S., and 45 other nations. |
| blitzkrieg | A lightning war conducted by the Germans. |
| Phony war | During the winter of 1939-40, Britain and French troops hunkered down along the Maginot Line expecting a German attack that nerver came. |
| Winston Churchill | The prime minister of Great Britain during the war. |
| Atlatic Charter | Roosevelt and Churchill secretly met and set goals for the war-the final destruction of the Nazi tyranny-and for the postwar world. |
| Pearl Harbor | The Japanese succesfully attacked and disabled the American naval fleet on December 7th, 1941. |
| genocide | deliberate murder |
| the Big Three | Roosevelt, Churchil, & Stalin |
| Reparations | Payment for damages caused by imprisonment |
| Totalitarian state | the state controls all aspects of its citizens lives |
