#world war II

• Abwehr — The military intelligence and counterintelligence service of the German armed forces (Reichswehr and later Wehrmacht), operating under the High Command between 1920 and 1944. Initially created with a strictly defensive role to bypass the restrictions of the Treaty of Versailles, the service expanded under Admiral Wilhelm Canaris into a complex network of foreign espionage and sabotage, while also serving as a hidden core of internal resistance against the Nazi regime until its dissolution by Hitler.
• Anti-Hitler — Opposing Adolf Hitler, the national-socialist ideology (nazism), or the political regime imposed by him during World War II; a person who fought or expressed opposition against the Hitlerite dictatorship. In a historical sense, it describes the international coalition formed by the Great Powers (the Allies) to defeat Nazi Germany.
• Anti-Hitler — A woman who opposed the regime led by Adolf Hitler or the national-socialist ideology; a movement, action, or attitude with an anti-Nazi character developed during World War II. As an adjective inflected in the feminine form, it qualifies political, military, or ideological structures aimed at destroying fascism and the Hitlerite dictatorship.
• Anti-Nazi — Opposing Nazism, the national-socialist ideology, or the political regime imposed by Adolf Hitler; a person who actively fought, campaigned, or organized in clandestine movements against the German fascist dictatorship. In a structural and historical sense, it describes resistance actions during World War II or Allied military coalitions dedicated to destroying the Axis.
• Anti-Nazi — A woman who opposed the national-socialist regime or the ideology promoted by Adolf Hitler; a movement, action, or attitude with an anti-fascist character developed during World War II. As an adjective inflected in the feminine form, it qualifies resistance organizations, clandestine manifestos, or allied policies oriented toward destroying the Hitlerite dictatorship.
• Antonescian — Belonging, referring, or specific to the military dictatorship, ideology, or period when Romania was led by Marshal Ion Antonescu (1940–1944). In a historiographical and political sense, the term describes structural administrative elements, wartime decisions, legislative measures, or social realities during the Antonescu regime, characterized by authoritarianism, strict censorship, and geopolitical alignment with the Axis Powers.
• Anzio — A coastal city and historic port in Italy, located in the Lazio region (province of Rome); famous in ancient history as Antium (the birthplace of emperors Caligula and Nero) and renowned in modern history for the crucial Allied landing operation of 1944 during World War II.
• Auschwitz — The German name for the Polish town of Oświęcim, universally used to designate the largest concentration and mass extermination camp complex established by the Nazi regime during World War II. As a universal symbol of the Holocaust, it represents the site where over one million people were systematically murdered.
• Badoglio — A prominent historical proper surname belonging to the Italian Marshal and politician Pietro Badoglio (1871–1956). He played a crucial role during WWI and WWII, becoming Prime Minister of Italy in 1943 after the deposition of Benito Mussolini.
• Bagramian — A prominent historical proper surname of Armenian origin, most notably belonging to the Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Bagramian (1897–1982), a distinguished military commander who led major strategic operations during World War II.
• Franklin D. Roosevelt — An American statesman and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 32nd President of the United States (1933–1945), being the only president elected four times, widely renowned for implementing the New Deal and leading the country through the Great Depression and World War II.
• Winston Churchill — A British statesman, military officer, writer, and orator who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II (1940–1945) and again from 1951 to 1955, widely renowned for his crucial role in the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and honored with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.