| A | B |
| National Socilist Party (Nazis) | Hitler's political party, also known as the Nazis. |
| "master race" | Hitler's beleif that people of pure German decent deserved to rule the world. |
| anti-Semitism | The obsessive hate for the Jews. |
| dictator | A ruler who has total power over the people of a country. |
| fascism | A military dictatorship run by a ruler who demands absolute control and power. |
| Nuremberg law | Laws passed in 1935 that remove the citizenship and civil rights of all Jews in Germany. |
| Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass); the night in 1938 when 7,000 Jewish shops were looted , 20,000 Jews were arrested, and others were savagely beaten. |
| St. Louis | that arrived off Canada's eastern coast carrying 907 Jews, including 400 women and children seeking safe haven. |
| Munich Agreement | France and Britain agree in 1938 that Germany may have the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. |
| Axis Powers | The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan. |
| Dunkirk | A seaport town on the French coast, where 300,000 British and French soldiers were trapped and had to be evacuated. |