A quick, coordinated military attack utilizing armored ground vehicles and intensive air support. The word is German for "lightning war."
fascism
A political system that glorifies the nation, minimizes individual rights, and operates through an autocratic central government that tightly controls all economics, political, and social behavior. In the 1930s and 1940s, the term applied to governments under Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolf Hitler in Germany, and Francisco Franco in Spain.
