Adolf Hitler : Austrian-born Nazi leader; chancellor of Germany 1933–45.

Annex : Append or add as an extra or subordinate part, especially to a

document.
anti-Semitism : Hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
Appeasement : The act or action of appeasing someone or something a policy of
appeasing an enemy or potential aggressor by making concessions.
Authoritarian : Favoring or enforcing strict obedience to authority, especially that of the
government, at the expense of personal freedom.
Axis Powers : originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis, was a military coalition that
initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Benito Mussolini : Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist
Party.
Collectivization : Noun form of collectivize.
Dehumanization : The process of depriving a person or group of positive human qualities.
Fascism : An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and
social organization.
Franklin D. Roosevelt : 32nd president of the US 1933–45.
Gestapo : Official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe.
Great Depression : Severe worldwide economic depression. began in 1929 and lasted for
much of the 1930s.
Chancellor : The secretary of a nobleman, prince, or king
the lord chancellor of Great Britain.
Hyperinflation : Monetary inflation occurring at a very high rate.
Joseph Stalin : Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who governed the
Soviet Union.
Mein Kampf : 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler.
Nazi-Soviet Pact : The name given to the Treaty of Non-Aggression signed by Ribbentrop
for Germany and Molotov for the USSR on August 23,1939.
Weimar Republic : The German republic of 1919–33.
Winston Churchill : British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War.
Black Shirts : A member of a fascist organization having a black shirt as a distinctive
part of its uniforma member of the Italian Fascist party.
Reparations : The making of amends for a wrong one has been done, by paying
money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
Soviet Union : Communist state that spanned Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Third Reich : The Nazi regime, 1933–45.
Totalitarianism : Form of government and a political system that prohibits all opposition
parties, outlaws individual and group opposition to the state and its
claims, and exercises an extremely high degree of control and regulation
over public and private life.
Treaty of Versailles : Treaty signed in 1919 that brought a formal end to World War I.
Vladimir Lenin : Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.