Glossary
Allies: a state formally cooperating with another for a military or other purposes.
Annex: add (territory) to one's own territory by appropriation.
Dictator: a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.
Conscription: compulsory enlistment for state service, typically into the armed forces.
The Third Reich: The name given by the Nazis to their government in Germany; Reich is German for “empire.” Adolf Hitler, their leader, believed that he was creating a third German empire, a successor to the Holy Roman Empire and the German empire formed by Chancellor Bismarck in the nineteenth century.
Nazism: the body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany from 1933 to 1945 including the totalitarian principle of government, predominance of especially Germanic groups assumed to be racially superior, and supremacy of the führer.
Holocaust: destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
Censorship: Censorship is the name for the process or idea of keeping things like obscene word or graphic images from an audience. There is also such a thing as self-censorship, which is when you refrain from saying certain things — or possibly re-wording them — depending on who is listening.
Rations: a fixed amount of a commodity officially allowed to each person during a time of shortage, as in wartime.
Tyranny: cruel and oppressive government or rule. (A state under cruel and oppressive government, cruel, unreasonable, or arbitrary use of power or control.)
Propaganda: Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.
Nagasaki: Nagasaki is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.
Hiroshima: Hiroshima, a modern city on Japan’s Honshu Island, was largely destroyed by an atomic bomb during World War II.
WW2: the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945.
Armament: the arms and equipment with which a military unit or military apparatus is supplied.
Troops: soldiers or armed forces. a group of people in large numbers
Austerity: sternness or severity of manner or attitude. Strict economy.
Blitzerg: an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
Atomic bomb: A bomb which derives its destructive power from the rapid release of nuclear energy by fission of heavy atomic nuclei, causing damage through heat, blast, and radioactivity.
Communism: a theory or system of social organization in which all property is owned by the community and each person contributes and receives according to their ability and needs.
Fascism: an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.