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Aryan

Term used by the Nazis to describe 'pure-blooded' Germanic people

Concentration camps

Prison camps where people were beaten, tortured, starved and used as slave labour

Left Wing

Of parties, ideologies and individuals such as communists and socialists, that want greater political equality

Paramilitary

Armed forces outside the official military

Reichsag

The german parliament

Right wing

of parties, ideologies and individuals whose political beliefs range from conservative to fascist

Militarism

Excessive influence of military values and pro-war ideas

Third Reich

the nazi name for their regime in germany. reich means empire

United Front

policy of communist parties forming alliances with other parties to combat fascism

Ideologies

Sets of beliefs that provide the basis of political systems

Luftwaffe

the german air force during World war II

Partisans

irregular fighters using guerilla tactics behind enemy lines

RAF

britains royal air force

Scorched Earth

military strategy of destoying or removing everything that could be used by an advancing enemy

Bunker

fortified underground shelter, usually with openings from which to fire at enemies

Foxhole

a concealed dugout or pit used by one person to shelter from and shoot at the enemy

Alien

A person born in another country who is not yet a citizen of the country in which they live

Interment

to be put in prison for political or military reasons, either real or perceived

Rationing

controlling the distribution of something when supplies are low

South-West Pacific Zone

area, including new guinea and what is now indonesia within which australians conscripts could be sent to fight after febuary 1943

Munitions

weapons and ammunition

Normandy

a region of france on the atlantic coast

Weimar Republic

the deocratic system of government in germany from 1919 to early 1933, so called because its constitution was written in the city of weimar

Radicals

a person who advocates fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions or institutions

Anarchists

revolutionaries who want an equal society based on cooperation rather than government or coercive laws

Dole

payments to the unemployed, usually in the form of coupons to exchange for food

Welfare

government system to provide help to members of society who need support

Capitalists

economic system based on private ownership of capital, free markets and competition

Dissidents

people who publicly disagree with government policy or actions

Socialists

those who support an economic system based on public ownership of industry to create greater equality