| A | B |
|---|
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | made war illegal |
| Falange | Spanish Fascists Party |
| Spanish Civil War | conflict between Nationalists and Loyalists |
| International Brigades | Franch, British and American who volunteered to help the Loyalists |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Japan, Italy and others |
| Allies | France, England, U.S. and others |
| Anti-Comintern Pact | Agreement between Germany and Japan |
| Sudetenland | border area of Czechoslovakia |
| appeasement | giving in to demands in order to prevent further demands |
| Munich Conference | meeting between Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussoloni,and Hitler regarding the Sudetenland |
| League of Nations | post WWI international group who wanted world peace |
| German-Soviet Pact | a nonagression agreement between two specific countries |
| blitzkreig | very fast invasion |
| collaborators | people or countries willing to help their country's enemy |
| resistant movement | people willing to continue fighting the enemy after a takeover |
| Dunkerque or Dunkirk | Place where French troops were trapped until the British transported them across the English Channel |
| maquis | a specific French resistance movement |
| Luftwaffe | German air force |
| Battle of Britain | continuious air raids against England |
| RAF | England's air force |
| Neutrality Acts | U.S. policy of not becoming involved in wars in Europe |
| Lend-Lease Act | U.S. policy of helping England without sending soldiers |
| Atlantic Charter | agreemenr between England and the U.S. outlining beliefs about countries' rights |
| Eastern Front | area of fighting between Germany and the Soviet Union |
| genocide | systematic elimination of an entire race |
| Final Solution | Hitler's answer to the "Jewish Problem" |
| Wannsee Conference | a conference to create a system of concentration camps |
| the New Order | Hitler's plan to bring all European countries under a single political and economic system |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Russian defeat of German troops |
| Battle of Midway | U.S. push against Japanese on a specific Pacific island |
| Operation Overlord | plan to invade France and push back the German forces |
| V-E Day and V-J Day | a way of identifying the days Germany and Japan surrendered |
| Yalta Conference | meeting to determine how Germany would be divided and occupied after the war |
| Potsdam Conference | where leaders demanded the unconditional surrender of Japan |
| Bataan Death March | Japanese soldiers forced prisioners to walk up to 55 miles |
| Maginot Line | wall type boundary build by France to prevent Germany from entering their country |
| Black Shirts | name for Mussolini's troops |
| Il Duce | name for Mussolini meaning "The Leader" |
| Mein Kampf | book written by Hitler while in prison |
| Fuhrer | title for Hitler |
| Third Reich | Hitler's name for German takeover of Europe |
| Fatherland | reference to Germany by Germans |
| Kristallnacht | night which many Jewish businesses where destroyed by Nazis |
| nationalism | extreme pride in one's country or culture |
| economic sanctions | refusal or limitations on trade as a protest |
| pacifism | opposition to all war regardless of circumstances |
| "peace in our time" | bold statement made by Neville Chamberlain |
| "I shall return" | statement made by Douglas MacArthur |
| Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last successful battle |
| Nuremberg | place where post war trials took place |
| iron curtain | term coined by Churchill to describe Soviet policies in the post war period |
| Truman Doctrine | policy to resist Communism worldwide |
| NATO | alliance of European and North American countries |
| containment | policy of limiting communism to places where it already exists |
| Warsaw Pact | alliance of countries aligned with the Soviet Union |
