| A | B |
|---|
| abdication | act of giving up the throne |
| annexation | taking territory from another country |
| anschluss | joining of Germany and Austria |
| anti-Semitism | hatred of Jewish people |
| appeasement | policy of giving in to the demands of strong countries to avoid war |
| Aryan | northern European racial type |
| axis | alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan |
| blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| Blitz | bombing of Britain |
| collective security | nations working together to protect a country against an agressor |
| conscription | forced enlistment into the armed forces |
| enlistment | voluntary joining the armed forces |
| einsatzgruppen | SS murder squads |
| euthenasia | Nazi method of eliminating mentally ill and handicapped people |
| fascism | extreme right wing politics |
| ghetto | enclosed area in Warsaw where Jews were forced into |
| holocaust | systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis |
| internationalism | placing the good of the whole over nationalistic interest |
| lebensraum | German idea of having living space in eastern Europe |
| Maginot Line | French defensive line along the Franco-German border |
| plebicite | national vote on an issue |
| pogrom | state-organised violence against the Jews |
| propaganda | one-sided view of an issue |
| purges | removing opposition by force |
| revisionism | policy advocating the end of the Treaty of Versailles |
| sanctions | economic punishment against an aggressor |
| Vichy Regime | Nazi supported French government of occupied France |
| volksgemeinschaft | people's community |
| volkssturm | German home defence organisation |
| attrition | attempt to exhaust the other side |
| Wehrmacht | German army |
| autarky | economic self-sufficiency |
| Grossdeutschland | Greater Germany: bringing into the Reich all Germans from pre 1919, including Austria |
| Non-Agression Pact | agreement between Germany and Poland that lulled Poles into a false sense of security |
| Dolfuss | Austrian Chancellor assassinated in July 1934 |
| Mussolini | Leader of Italy in WWII |
| Covenant | rules of the League of Nations |
| Saar | region on the Franco-German border returned to Germany in 1935 |
| Rhineland | area on the Franco-German border, remilitarised in March 1936 |
| Franco | fascist leader supported by Germany in the Spanish Civil War |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | signed by Germany and Italy against the Soviet Union |
| Guernica | Spanish town obliterated by German bombing in April 1937 |
| Chamberlain | British Prime Minister who brokered an agreement with Hitler in Munich |
| Schnuschnigg | Austrian Chancellor who called a plebicite on independence |
| Munich Agreement | agreement that gave Germany the Sudentenland |
| Memel | area of Lithuania annexed by Germany in March 1939 |
| Pact of Steel | 10 year alliance signed by Germany and Italy in May 1939 |
| Czechoslovakia | invaded by Germany in March 1939 |
| Lateran Accord | agreement between the Vatican and Italy |
| Albania | Mussolini supported King Zog and dominated politics in this country |
| Abyssinia | Mussolini signed a Friendship Treaty with this country in 1928 but invaded it in October 1935 |
| Stresa Front | Britain, France, Italy formed this in April 1935 to combat possible German agression |
| Hoare-Laval Pact | plan that Britain and France would use to carve up Abyssinia |
| Medlicott | historian who argued Hitler was an opportunist, but he was consistent in his long term aims |
| Kershaw | historian who argued Hitler maintained his plans for expansion and this could only be achieved with force |
| Taylor | historian who argued that lebensraum offered space but only as a result of war |
| Mack Smith | historian who comments that Mussolini was proud of the terrorist methods of warfare used by the fascists |
| Thomson | historian who comments on the German-Italian relationship and that Hitler benefited more from the Spanish Civil War |
| Manchuria | invaded by Japan in 1931 which was condemned by the League of Nations resulting in Japan leaving the League |
| Lytton Commission | sent by the League of Nations to report on the Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
