Anti-Semitism - Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism.
arms race - A competition between two or more countries for military supremacy. Each party competes to produce superior numbers of weapons, larger armies, or superior military technology in a technological escalation.
balance of power – a condition of international politics where evenly matched military forces avoid conflict for fear of losing.
Balkans – The region of southeastern Europe containing the nations of Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Greece, and the European part of Turkey
blitzkrieg - war conducted with great speed and force; specifically : a violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination
corporatism - A political system in which legislative power is given to civic assemblies that represent economic, industrial, agrarian, and professional groups. Unlike pluralism, in which many groups must compete for control of the state, in corporatism, certain un-elected bodies take a critical role in the decision-making process.
fascism - a political movement that believes in an extreme form of nationalism: denying individual rights, insisting on the supremacy of the state, and advocating dictatorial one-party rule
genocide - the intentional killing of an entire people
Holocaust - the deliberate, systematic murder of the European Jews by the Nazis
militarism – glorification of military power
Nazism - fascism + totalitarianism + hatred of Jews + German nationalism + swastikas
populism - A political philosophy or politician’s style that holds that the common person is oppressed by the "elite" in society, and that the instruments of the State need to be grasped from this self-serving elite and used for the benefit and advancement of the people as a whole. Tends to promise something to everyone in society without clearly explaining how promises will be kept.
totalitarian - a political system in which the government has control over every aspect of the lives of individual citizens
war of attrition – a type of military conflict characterized by both sides trying to wear down the other; neither side makes quick strikes or sudden advances, but rather each focuses on slowly grinding up the other side’s forces
Zyklon B - a gas used to murder Jews in Nazi concentration camps