annexation - the policy of taking territory and adding it as part of one's own country

appeasement - to buy off an aggressor by concessions, usually at the sacrifice of principles

blitzkrieg - "lightning war"; Germany's rapid, full-scale attack of her enemies

facism - individuals existed only to serve the military goals of the state; individual rights and freedoms were denied

front - a zone of conflict between armies; battlezone

genocide - the killing/murder of an entire race/group of people

interventionist - persons who desire to become involved with the affairs of foreign countries

isolationist - any person or group of people who does not wish to enter into international events in order to maintain neutrality

Kremlin - capitol in Moscow, Soviet Union

Lend-Lease Act - stated that the United States can sell, transfer, exchange, lease, lend any defense article to any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the U.S.

Ludlow Amendment - a bill which would take the power to declare war out of the hands of the Congress and put it directly into the hands of the American voters (in hopes to further deter war)

Munich Pact - a treaty which stated that Hitler would take no further aggressions in Europe if Britain, under Prime Minister Chamberlain, and France would give the Sudetenland, part of Czechoslovakia, to Germany

N.A.Z.I. - the national socialist (German workers') party of Germany which was controlled by Hitler

Nazi-Soviet Pact - a treaty of non-aggression between Adolf Hitler's Germany and Josef Stalin's Soviet Union

Neutrality Acts - measures of the United States to right the wrongs which involved the U.S. in WWI and an isolationist policy symbolic of America's desire to stay out of Europe's affairs

Panay Incident - a international crisis occurred when Japanese planes bombed a neutral U.S. vessel, the Panay, on the Yangtse River in China while fighting the Chinese as part of their conquest of Asia

Red Army - the military organization of the Soviet Union