| A | B |
|---|
| isolationism | policy of government to stay out of international affairs |
| axis | alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan to promote the common purpose of these countries |
| buffer zone | neutral area that separates nations |
| annexation | illegal,forceful takeover of adjoining territory by a nation |
| appeasement | policy of a nation giving in against its principles to a strong power in the hope of avoiding trouble. |
| nonaggression pact | agreement between nations not to war against each other |
| Czechoslovakia | annexed by Germany in 1938 |
| Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis | alliance to promote common purposes |
| Manchuria (Manchukuo) | supplied resources for Japan's war machine |
| Anschluss | annexation of Austria |
| Munich conference (1938) | meeting where Hitler was given Sudetenlad |
| blitzkrieg | from the German for "lightning war", the military method that uses sudden, swift, and overpowering attacks of air and ground forces |
| collaborate | to work in cooperation with one another, particularly a defeated government working with its conqueror |
| lend-lease | agreement of the United States to lend or lease military equipment to Great Britain and her allies during World War II |
| embargo | restriction on international trade, often imposed in time of war |
| Maginot Line | line of forts along France's eastern border |
| Battle of Britain | Germany's blitzkrieg of England |
| Winston Churchill | British prime minister |
| holocaust | slaughter of Jews and others during World War II |
| theater of war | one of the four main areas in which World War II was fought |
| Philippines | Pacific Islands |
| Rommel | the Desert Fox |
| D-Day | Allied troops invaded Normandy |
| Battle of the Bulge | Germans' last counter-offensive |
| Hiroshima | first atomic bomb as dropped |
| Yalta Conference | meeting of Big Three leaders |
| veto power | power to stop an act of government officials |
| trust territory | term given to former colony of defeated nation in World War II and held in trust by United Nations |
| General Assembly | makes decisions about UN actions |
| Perez de Cuellar | Peruvian secretary-general |
| Economic and Social Council | studies hunger, sickness, poverty |
