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| A ruler with unrestricted power, without any democratic restrictions |
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| A dictatorship in which the government uses intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens |
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| Stalin's plans for economic development in the Soviet Union over five years |
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| A for of authoritarian government that is totalitarian and nationalistic |
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| The democratic government in Gernmany after the First World War |
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| Members of the NAtional Socialist German Workers' Party; the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state |
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| A coordinated attack against Jewish people and their property carried out by Nazis in Germany on November 9, 1938 |
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| To oppress or ill-treat because of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or beliefs |
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| The Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War |
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| Giving in to an aggressor's demands in the hopes that no more demands with be made |
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| An agreement between two countries no tto attack each other |
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| The policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries |
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| A person displaced from his or her home and territory by war and other acts of aggression |
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| Discrimination or histility toward Jewish people |
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| The act of sending someone back to his or her native land |
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| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) |
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| A program to train pilots and aircrew during the Second World War; it produced half of all Commonwealth aircrew and is the largest air training program in history |
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| Wartime Information Board |
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| Board established in 1942 to coordinate wartime propaganda in Canada |
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| The mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war |
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| Businesses and industries owned by the Canadian Government |
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| Countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War, including Britain,France, Canada, Ausralia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the United States and the U.S.S.R |
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| Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| German war tactic of surprise attacks by tanks and fighter planes |
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| Port town in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in May 1940, when Ferman forces conqured France |
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| The heavy, frequent bombing attacks on London and other British cities by Nazi Germany |
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| An air campagin launched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the German from achieving air superiority |
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| Germany's unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941-1942, which broke the non-aggression pact and ultimately led to the Soviet Union joining the Allies |
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| The Japanese bombing of the U.S naval base in Hawaii |
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| Japan's attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadian losses |
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| December 25, 1941, the date Hong Kong fell to the Japanese |
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| 1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy |
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| June 6, 1944; the day Allied armies, uncluding Canada, invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second World War |
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| Soliders trained to parachute from airplanes onto combat areas |
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| The 9-km stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day |
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| Widespread attacks against civilians, including murder, enslavement, deportation, and torture |
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| The Nazis' plan to systematically kill all European Jews |
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| The systematic extermination of a religious or ethnic group |
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| The killing, torture, and hostage-taking of civilian populations, or the eliberate and extensice destruction of their property |
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| Nationals living in a country that is at war with their homeland |
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| A slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevely in December 1940 promising to help the Allies fight the Germans by providing military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting |
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