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| A system of government that promotes extreme nationalism, repression, anticommunism, and is ruled by a dictator. |
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| The policy of pacifying an aggressive nation in the hopes of avoiding further conflict. |
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| The hatred of people of Jewish descent. |
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| Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan during World War II. |
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| (1889-1945) Austrian-born leader of Germany. He co-founded the Nazi Party in Germany, and gained control of the country as chancellor in 1933. Hitler started World War II with the invasion of Poland. He was responsible for the Holocaust. |
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| Alliance of Great Britain, Soviet Union, United States, and France during World War II. |
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| The massive air war against Great Britain by the Nazi war machine in Germany. Nearly nightly bombings occurred between summer of 1940 and summer of 1941 before German withdrew. Great Britain fought alone during this year and never gave up. |
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(1883-1945) Italian leader. He founded the Italian Fascist Party, and sided with Hitler and Germany in World War II. In 1945 he was overthrown and assassinated by the Italian Resistance.
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| German word meaning lightning war. It was a German army tactic during World War II which called for quick moving, hard hitting drives into enemy territory. |
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A system of government in which a country is ruled by a single person with absolute power.
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| A group of people moving from new area in large numbers to thier homeland |
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| (1930) Passive resistance campaign of Mohandas Gandhi where many Indians protested the British tax on salt by marching to the sea to make their own salt |
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| Term given to the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. |
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| (1869-1948) Nationalist leader in India, who called for a non violent revolution to gain his country’s freedom from the British Empire. |
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| (1874-1965) British politician and Prime Minster of Great Britain from 1940 to 1945, and 1951 to 1955. He is regarded as the finest British leader of the 20th century and was instrumental in leading Britain to victory during World War II. |
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| The attempted genocide of European Jews, Gypsies, mentally retarded, homosexuals, and others by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. |
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| War crime trials held in Nuremburg after World War II to try the surviving Nazis concerning the Holocaust, aggressive war making, mistreatment of prisoners among other things. |
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An international body composed of many countries that seeks to promote peace, prosperity, and cooperation around the world. It was formed in 1945 at the end of World War II.
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| (1929-1939) The dramatic decline in the world’s economy due to the United State’s stock market crash of 1929, the overproduction of goods from World War I, and decline in the need for raw materials from non industrialized nations. Results in millions of people losing their jobs as banks and businesses closed around the world. Many people were reduced to homelessness, and had to rely on government sponsored soup kitchens to eat. World trade also declined as many countries imposed protective tariffs in an attempt to restore their economies. |
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| The killing of all the people from a ethnic group, religious group, or people from a specific nation. |
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| a new democratic republic in germany |
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| a nationalist socialist party ran by hitler |
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| December or 1941, japan attacked american ship site |
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| June 6, 1944, u.s. and british troops landed in northern france |
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| were roosevelt, churchill, and stalin had met to make plans for the post war world |
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| a book written by hitler that germans were better then and jews were the problems in society |
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