| Term | Definition |
| Dictator | Ruler who has complete power |
| Totalitarian State | Country where single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of people |
| Collective Farm | Farms or groups run by the government, as in cumminst state |
| Nationalism | Pride in ones nation |
| Aggression | Warlike act by one country to another |
| Concentration Camp | Prison camp for people who are considered enemies |
| Annex | To add on |
| Appeasement | Practice of giving in to an aggressor |
| Blitzkrieg | German word, meaning lighting war |
| Ration | To limit an amount of goods |
| Joeseph Stalin | Ruled as dictator |
| Benito Mussolini | Seized power in Italy |
| Haile Selassie | Called league of nations for help |
| Adolf Hitler | Took advantage of Versaills Treaty |
| Final Solution | Plan to kill all the Jews |
| Neutrality Acts | Banned armed sales and loans to countries at war |
| Good Neighbor Policy | Becoming friends with Latin America |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact | The two promised not to attack eachother |
| Winston Churchill | Informed the world that the british people would stand firm |
| Edward E. Murrow | One of many who saw the fighting first hand |
| Lend-Lease Act | allowed sales or loans of war materials |
| Atlantic Charter | set goals for the postwar world |
| Tuskegee Airmen | African American fighter pilots |
| A. Phillip Randolph | head of the Brotherhood of sleeping car porters |
| Bracero Program | allowed Mexican Americans to work in united states |
| Navajo Code-Talkers | set up their own unusual contribution |
| Operation Overload | the code name for the invasion of Europe |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | general of North Africa |