| 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 |
| 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 |
| propaganda | one-sided view of an issue |
| purges | removing opposition by force |
| sanctions | economic punishment against an aggressor |
| Vichy Regime | Nazi supported French government of occupied France |
| attrition | attempt to exhaust the other side |
| Non-Agression Pact | agreement between Germany and Poland that lulled Poles into a false sense of security |
| Mussolini | Leader of Italy in WWII |
| 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 |
| Chamberlain | British Prime Minister who brokered an agreement with Hitler in Munich |
| Munich Agreement | agreement that gave Germany the Sudentenland |
| Czechoslovakia | invaded by Germany in March 1939 |
| Manchuria | invaded by Japan in 1931 which was condemned by the League of Nations resulting in Japan leaving the League |
