149147542 | Francis Ferdinand | Austria-Hungary's archduke, assasination led to WWI | 0 | |
149147543 | Total War | when a country devotes all of its resources and popuation to war | 1 | |
149147544 | Self-Determination | the idea that people with same ethnic origins have the right to form their own independent countries | 2 | |
149147545 | Pan-Slavism | idea that all slavs should support one another | 3 | |
149147546 | Dreadnoughts | new British battleships, lead to arms race betw GB and Germany | 4 | |
149147547 | Triple Entente | defensive alliance betb France, GB, and Russia | 5 | |
149147548 | Schlieffen Plan | General Schlieffen's plann to fight two-front war against France and Russia, failed | 6 | |
149147549 | War of Attrition | type of war, aim to kill as many opposing soldiers as possible | 7 | |
149147550 | Home Front | civilian effort towards total war, recycling, rationing, morale, and efficient farming | 8 | |
149147551 | TNT Poisoning | medical conditioning many women working in munitions factories developed | 9 | |
149147552 | Twenty-one Demands | list of Japanese demands to China after WWI | 10 | |
149147553 | Gallipoli | the peninsula battle where Turkish troops held off the advance of the Australian and New Zealand forces, perventing Allies from bringing supplies to Russia. | 11 | |
149147554 | Nicholas II | the last Russian Tsar, abdicated and later murdered | 12 | |
149147555 | soviets | originally local councils in Russia, later became major part of political structure in USSR | 13 | |
149147556 | Vladimir Lenin | marxist leader, founded Bolshevik party, led communist reolution | 14 | |
149147557 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | treaty that ended hostilities betw Russia and Germany. Germany awarded substantial amount of territory. | 15 | |
149147558 | Lusitania | British ship sunk by German u-boat, incerased US hostility towards German gvt | 16 | |
149147559 | Treaty of Versailles | the diplomatic agreement that formally ended the war betw the Allies and Germany. Germany got owned | 17 | |
149147560 | League of Nations | International organization created to keep world peace post WWI. Little power to inforce politics | 18 | |
149147561 | Mandate System | system to devide German and Ottoman territories outside of Europe. Allowed fronce and GB to expand their colonial empires | 19 | |
149147562 | lost generation | generation of young people coming of age during and shortly after WWI | 20 | |
149147563 | Oswald Spengler | author of The Decline of the West. Claimed civilization and culture have the same cycle of growth and decay as humans | 21 | |
149147564 | Jose Ortega y Gasset | spanish philosopher, worte and essay titled The Revolt of the Masses, attacking democratic gvt | 22 | |
149147565 | The Uncertainty Principle | Werner Heisenberg's theory stating observation of a physical phenomenon interferes w/ natural behavior of phenomenon being | 23 | |
149147566 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian physician, founder of psychoanalysis. | 24 | |
149147567 | Paul Gaugin | post impressionalist pinter, fled europe for central america and Tahiti, blended non westenr ideas with western ideas | 25 | |
149147568 | Cubism | painting style popularized by Picasso and Braque, all forms reduced to geometric shapes. Rejection of realism | 26 | |
149147569 | Bauhaus | community of archetects, designers, and pointers to create a style of building and design unique to 20th century | 27 | |
149147570 | John Maynard Keynes | economist, urged gvts to be active in economy. His theories led to development of gvt funded public works projects | 28 | |
149147571 | Red Terror | lenin's policy, crush all opposition. 200,000 killed in this campaign | 29 | |
149147572 | War Communism | provoked by civil war in russia. Soldiers could take anything from anyone if it was deemed useful or necessary in the effort to defeat the wite forces in the Russian civil war | 30 | |
149147573 | New Economic Plan | Lenin's plan, temporarily restored russian econ in 1920's, let people sell goods in free markets | 31 | |
149147574 | socialism in one country | stalin's attitude for role of USSR in spereading communism in 1920's. make communism a success in USSR before promoting in other parts of the world (please secure your oxygen mask before assisting others) | 32 | |
149147575 | five-year plans | s NEP with complete gvt control of economy. Enabled USSR to develop econ strength in many areas | 33 | |
149147576 | collectivization | stalin's economic program to increase agricultural production in 1920's &30's. Private ownership of farmland abolished, giant gvt farms set up | 34 | |
149147577 | kulaks | wealthy pesant farmers whose land Stalin's collectivization took away. | 35 | |
149147578 | Great Purge | anyone accused of opposing stalin either killed or imprisoned in a gulag. Enabled stalin to eliminate any percieved rivals | 36 | |
149147579 | facism | political system with a dictator. First developed in italy under Musolini, and hitler later in germany. Both opposed the spread of communism | 37 | |
149147580 | Nuremburg Laws | legislation passed in germany soon after hitler came to power. Stripped german jews of citizenship and outlawed mairrage/sex betw German Jews and other Germans (harry potter much?) | 38 | |
149147581 | Kristallnacht | night when nazis organized destruction of synagogues and stores owned by jews. Over 100 jews murdered, caused many jews to flee Germany, | 39 |
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