GLobal depression - a severe worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was characterized by widespread unemployment, poverty, and a drastic reduction in industrial production and international trade, infaltion - a general increase in the prices of goods and services in an economy over a period of time. This means that the purchasing power of money decreases, as each unit of currency buys fewer goods and services than it did before, credit - the ability of a customer to obtain goods or services before payment, based on the trust that payment will be made in the future, stock market - a place where shares of publicly traded companies are bought and sold, trading activity helps companies raise capital for growth and expansion, while investors have the opportunity to profit from the company's success, Tariffs - a tax imposed by a government on goods and services imported from other countries, totaltarian state - government control over every aspect of public and private life, Authoritarian - enforcing strict obedience to the government at the expense of personal freedom, Facism - political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual and emphasizes the need for a strong central government and a dictatorial ruler, Lebensraum - "living space"-the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded, appeasment - name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked, Isolationism - policy that believed that World War II was ultimately a dispute between foreign nations and that the United States had no good reason to get involved, Collevtivization - system in which private farms are eliminated and the peasants work on land owned by the government, great purge - Stalin used trials to charge his enemies with treason or other crimes, they were then sent to Siberia or executed, nazi party - shortened version of German Nazional, or the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, five year plan - Announced in 1928, the plan was to build up heavy industry in the Soviet Union. Despite a shortage of consumer goods, the plan of state industrialization was fairly successful, operation jedburgh - a clandestine operation during World War II in which three-man teams of operatives were dropped by parachute into occupied France, the Netherlands and Belgium and were tasked with sabotage and guerrilla warfare, and leading local resistance forces in actions against the Germans, Espionage - the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information, French resistance - a collection of groups that fought the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist Vichy regime in France during the Second World War, Blitzkreg - (lightning war), mechanized and mobile units, parachutists and quick style of warfare, utilized by the German Military in WWII, Cavity magnetron - a high-power vacuum tube used in early radar systems and subsequently in microwave ovens and in linear particle accelerators, radar - a system for detecting the presence, direction, distance, and speed of aircraft, ships, and other objects, by sending out pulses of high-frequency electromagnetic waves that are reflected off the object back to the source, ENIAC - was the first electronic digital computer, weighing 30 tons and occupying 1,800 square feet, and was used primarily for calculating artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army, Penicllin - an antibiotic used to treat bacterial infections by inhibiting the growth of bacteria, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928,

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