| A | B |
|---|
| Joseph Stalin | communist dictator who gained control of the USSR in 1926 |
| Jesse Owens | African American who won four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin |
| Adolf Hitler | Austriann-born leader of the National Socialist German Workers' party |
| Walter Lippmann | American journalist who warned that Britain might be defeated by the Germans |
| Winston Churchill | British leader who became Prime Minister in 1940 and led them during WWII |
| Edward R. Murow | CBX wartime correspondent who reported on events in Germany and Britain |
| Benito Mussolini | fascist dictator of Italy, aka el duce |
| Neville Chamberlain | British prime minister who pursued an appeasement policy in Munich (1938) |
| Charles de Gaulle | head of the exiled Free French government after France fell to Hitler's armies |
| Manchuria | Chinese provine invaded by Japan in 1931 |
| Rhineland | buffer zone between Germany and France |
| Ethiopia | country in Northern Africa conquered by Italy in 1936 |
| Sudetenland | mineral rich area of Czechoslovakia taken by Hitler |
| Ardennes Forest | hilly region in Belgium where British and French troops stopped the German army |
| Dunkirk | evacuation point where Germans cornered French and British troops in 1940 |
| Moscow | capital of the Soviet Union |
| Stimson Doctrine | US doctrine that protested Japanese aggression |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Spitfire | effective British plane during Battle of Britain |
| Fifth columnists | infiltrators who aided the German conquest of Norway |
| Lebensraum | additional land desired by the Germans for political and economic expansion |
| fuhrer | title used by Hitler after he achieved total power in German (1933) |
| blitzkrieg | sudden, rapid, overwhelming warfare that relies on speed and surprise |
| appeasement | policy of yielding to the demands of an aggressive power in the hope of avoiding war |
| Lend-Lease Act | American legislation that allowed the Allies to order american weapons and supplies without payment |
| Neutrality Acts | American isolationist legislation passed by Congress in the mid-1930s |
| Stimson Doctrine | American policy of denying diplomatic recognition to any territory seized by force |
| Maginot Line | heavy French fortifications on the French-German border to stop a German invasion |
| genocide | systematic killing of an entire national or ethnic group such as during the Holocaust |
| RAF | British air force |
| Third Reich | Geerman empire that began with the Nazi accession to power in 1933 |
| panzer divisions | massed tank formations used by the German military |
| Battle of Britain | German Luftwaffe attack on Great Britain |
| Kristallnacht | German assault on Jewish homes and businesses known as the night of broken glass |
| Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact | agreement signed by Stalin and Hitler shortly before Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 |
| Anti-Semitism | the hatred of Jewish people |
| Francisco Franco | Fascist dictator of Spain who remained neutral during WWII |
| totalitarian | government that gained power in the 1920s due to the worldwide fear of communism |
| scapegoat | people or group used as a target of hatred and blame |
| Scandinavian conquests | countries that provided Hitler with additional air bases, food supplies, and natural resources for its war machine |
| Atlantic Charter | negotiated agreement between President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill concerning post-war aimes for new governments |
| Barbarosa | German invasion of the Soviet Union which faltered due to sever winter weather |
| Radar | new device that detected German planes from a distance |
| Hirohito | Japanese emperor |
| Yamamoto | Japanese naval commander |
| 1933 | year both Hitler and Roosevelt became leaders |
| 1931 | year Japan attacked Manchuria |
| 1936 | year Italy attacked Ethiopia |
| 1938 | year Nazi gangs began their violent campaign against the Jews known as Kristallnacht |
| 1939 | Germany invaded Poland in September |
| 1940 | Germany invade France via the Ardennes Forest of Belgium |
