| Term | Definition |
| Fascism | valuing the importance of a nation over the individual with a strong totalitarian leader |
| Totalitarianism | government that uses terror, suppression of rights to control the people |
| Antisemitism | hatred of the Jews |
| Appeasement | Keeping the peace by giving into Hitler's demands |
| Communism | a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership; used in the Soviet Union |
| Rhineland | section of Western Germany; Hitler placed troops there |
| Manchuria | region of Northern China; rich in natural resources |
| Sudetenland | western part of Czechoslovakia; taken from Germany after WWI |
| Alsace-Lorraine | disputed land on border of Germany and France |
| Polish Corridor | area taken from Germany to make Poland |
| Adolf Hitler | Der Fuhrer |
| Benito Mussolini | Il Duce |
| Francisco Franco | Spanish fascist leader |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | American President |
| Hideki Tojo | Japanese military leader |
| General Douglas MacArthur | U.S. General in the Philippines |
| USS Arizona | battleship sunk in Pearl Harbor |
| USS Yorktown | bombed in the Coral Sea; hero of the battle of Midway |
| Ernst Rohm | head of the "Storm Troopers"; loyal aid to Hitler; killed by Hitler. |