| A | B |
| Guomindang | National People's Party |
| isolationism | American policy of not joining alliances or taking part in intermational disputes |
| pandemic | an epidemic on an international scale |
| reparations | payment for damages caused during a war |
| forward defence | confronting an enemy well away from your own frontiers |
| proletariat | working class |
| bourgeois | middle class |
| appeasement | Policy in which a country tries to agree to demands to avoid a conflict |
| collective rule | several people share leadership for a time |
| demilitarised | no military forces or equipment allowed in that area |
| blitzkrieg | method of warfare involving coordinated tank,infantry & air attacks |
| commissar | Russian word for minister |
| national guard | Special milityary /police force in American states |
| segregation | separation of racial groups |
| de facto segregation | segregation that exists but that does not have the force of law |
| freedom rides | attempts to integrate interstate bus depots |