| Term | Definition |
| Nazism (Nazi Party) | totalitarian government in Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler that stressed territorial expansion, anti-Semitism (anti-Jewish), and Aryan supremacy (blond hair, blue eye, fair complexion) |
| inflation | when prices rise and money decreases in value |
| Great Depression | global economic and unemployment crisis in the 1930s |
| League of Nations | an international organization to promote world peace and cooperation that the Treaty of Versailles created; ended 1946 |
| fascism | form of dictatorship (totalitarian) government with an EXTREME nationalism, militarism, and imperialism |
| reparation | compensation in money, material, labor, etc. payable by a defeated country to another country or to an individual for loss suffered during of as a result of war |
| propaganda | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| embargo | a government order prohibiting the departure or arrival of merchant ships in its ports |
| sanction | to penalize, especially by way of discipline |
| appeasement | : the policy of agreeing to the demands of a hostile nation in the hope of maintaining peace |
| Mein Kampf | My Struggle; Hitler's book listing the basic ideas of the Nazi Party; written while in prison |
| Anti-Semitism | against Jewish people |
| concentration camp | a guarded prison camp in which nonmilitary prisoners are held, esp. one of those in Nazi Germany in which millions were exterminated |
| persecution | process of discriminating against and, often, violently confronting a group of people based on their ethnicity, religion, or beliefs |
| genocide | intentional mass murder of a specific religious, cultural, or ethnic group |
| ghetto | an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly required to live; a group or class of people that is segregated in some way |
| Axis Powers | a group of countries that opposed the Allied powers in WWII, including Germany, Italy, and Japan as well as Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia |
| Allied Powers | Britain, France, Russia, and the United States. formed mostly as a defense against the attacks of the Axis Powers |
| Blitzkrieg | a swift intensive military attack, esp. using tanks supported by aircraft, designed to defeat the opposition quickly; quick, overwhelming attack |
| Luftwaffe | name for the Nazi air force |
| Isolationism | government policy of avoiding economic and political contact with other countries |
| Sovereignty | ultimate power or independence within a region |
| Holocaust | (1933-1945) attempted genocide of the Jews of Europe, led by Nazi Germany |
| Final Solution | the Nazi program of annihilating the Jews of Europe during the Third Reich |
| War Crimes | severe acts of violence, violating international law, committed against civilians, enemies, prisoners of war, or others during an armed conflict. |
| Nuremberg Trials | Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944, on which the Allied invasion of Europe began by landing on the shores of France |
| United Nations | international organization that works for peace, security and cooperation |
| Fat Man & Little Boy | The two atomic bombs dropped in Japan thereby ending the Pacific War and starting the cold war |
| Forced Labor | person is forced to work through the use of violence or intimidation |
| Reichstag | German parliament (government) building |
| Synagogue | the building where a Jewish people meet for religious worship and instruction |
| Unemployment | not employed (working) |
| Stock market | market where small pieces of shares of a company are bought and sold |
| Tariff | a tax on an import or export item |
