| A | B |
|---|
| 2 Front War | its Nazi Germany fought during the Second World War |
| alliance | countries who are friends & support each other during wars |
| Alps | a natural geographic barrier in the middle of Europe; no country has invaded Switzerland because of this, also the Swiss are neutral probably because of its influence |
| annex | to take over a piece of land or a country & make it part of your own country/add it to your territory |
| anti-Semitism | to be against the Jews |
| appeasement | to give in to inorder to keep them quiet; Chamberlain did this to Hitler in 1938 in Munich |
| Aryan race | Hitler thought this group (blond hair, blue eyes) were superior to the rest of the other races |
| Berlin | this city was the capital of Germany when Hitler ruled; it was occupied & divided into 4 sectors/sections at the end of Hitler's rule/World War II |
| casualties | deaths & injured people during war |
| civilians | people who don't belong to the military |
| collective security | mutual military assistance - aid given to other nations to help the US carry out its foreign policy objectives |
| communism | supposedly everyone is equal under this, yet in reality its a dictatorship/totalitarian govt. |
| conscript | someone drafted by the military - they have to become part of the military |
| consumer goods | things the average person buys; tvs, cd players, cars, jackets, hats, |
| crimes against humanity | genocide, the Holocaust, ethnic cleansing |
| D-Day | the 1st day of a war, battle, or military campaign |
| death camps | Concentration Camps, where people are imprisoned & conditions are inhumane/horrible |
| dissenting opinion | people who do not agree with the majority; in this case it refers when a Supreme Court decision is not unanimous |
| emigration emigrate | to leave your homeland forever & go to another place |
| English Channel | a natural barrier between England & Frnace, it caused military generals to really plan how to evacuate from France & later invade it (France) so they could go against Nazi Germany |
| filial piety | honoring & respecting your ancestors & parents; found in the Chinese & Japanese cultures |
| gas chambers | Hitler used them to kill large numbers of Jews |
| Geneva Convention | deals with the care of all people who are captured by the enemy during war - it says all people should be treated humanely - no torture - all have the right to medical care |
| genocide | the deliberate killing of a race/group of people; ethnic cleansing |
| GI | it stands for "Government Issue" |
| industries industry | factories, machine shops |
| Isolationism | when a country tries to have little to do with other countries; stays out of their affairs |
