Subject:
A
appeasement British policy that granted Hitler everything he could reasonably want (and more) in order to avoid war. (p. 972)
B
Black Shirts a private army under Mussolini who destroyed socialist newspapers, union halls, and Socialist party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of Northern Italy. (p. 965)
blitzkrieg "lightening war" using planes, tanks, and trucks, the first example of which Hitler used to crush Poland in four weeks. (p. 975)
C
collectivization the forcible consolidation of individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled enterprises. (p. 960)
E
Enabling Act act pushed through the Reichstag by the Nazis which gave Hitler absolute dictatorial power for four years. (p. 969)
