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| A dictartorship in which the government uses intimidation, violence, and propaganda to rule all aspects of the social and political life of its citizens |
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| Members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party; the Nazis were extreme nationalists who took power in 1933 and controlled every aspect of German life through a police state. |
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| The Nazi imprisonment and murder of 6 million Jewish people and 5 million other peoples during the Second World War. |
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| Giving in to an aggressor's demands in the hopes that no more demands will be made. |
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| British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) |
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| A program to train pilots and aircrew during the Second World War; it produced half of all Commonwealth aircrew and its largest air training program in history. |
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| The mobilization of the entire resourses of a nation for war. |
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| Countries fighting against Germany during the Second World War, including Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and after 1941, the United States, and the U.S.S.R |
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| Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan |
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| Port town in France from which a massive Allied evacuation took place in may 1940, when the German forces conquered France. |
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| An air campaign lauched in 1940 by the Royal Air Force to stop the Germans from achieving air superiority. |
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| The Japanese bombing of the U.S naval base in Hawaii. |
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| Japan's attack on the British colony of Hong Kong in which there were heavy Canadians losses. |
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| The struggle between the Allies and the Axis of power to control the Allies' shipping route across the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| The section of the RAF that directed the strategic bombing of Germany. |
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| the 1942 trial raid by Canadian troops against Germany's occupation of Dieppe; Canada suffered heavy losses |
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| 1943 Allied battles to recapture Europe from the south, through Sicily and Italy |
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June 6, 1944; the day Allied armies, including Canada invaded France; the biggest Allied invasion of the Second world war.
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| The nine-kilometer stretch of beach in France where Canadian troops landed on D-Day. |
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| The systematic extermination of a religious or ethnic group. |
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| Nationals living in a country that is at war with their homeland. |
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| a slogan coined by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in December 1940 promising to help the Allies fight the Germans by providing military supplies while staying out of the actual fighting. |
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