6359417472 | Alliances | Agreement between 2 or more countries to help each other out in war | | 0 |
6359417473 | Armistice | A state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms | | 1 |
6359417474 | Black Hand | Serbian nationalist/terrorist group responsible for the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand which resulted in the start of World War I. | | 2 |
6359417475 | Central Powers | An alliance during World War I that originally consisted of Germany and Austria-Hungary. Other nations, including Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire, joined later. | | 3 |
6359417476 | Conscription | A military draft | | 4 |
6359417477 | Gavrilo Princip | The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria, a member of the Black Hand | | 5 |
6359417478 | Imperialism | A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. | | 6 |
6359417479 | League of Nations | An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace; suggested in Wilson's 14 Points. | | 7 |
6359417480 | Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war | | 8 |
6359417481 | Mustafa Kemal | Commander who led Turks against Greeks/British and to overthrow the last Sultan. He became president of the new republic of Turkey and had reforms: separate laws of Islam and laws of the nation, abolish religious courts, new European style law system, granted women right to vote and hold office, government funded programs to spur economic growth | | 9 |
6359417482 | Nationalism | A sense of national pride to such an extent of exalting one nation above all others | | 10 |
6359417483 | No Man's Land | A strip of land between the trenches of opposing armies along the Western Front during WW1 | | 11 |
6359417484 | Pan-Slavism | The idea that Slavic peoples should identify with each other and have their own nation. Heavily promoted by Russia at the end of the 19th century as a way to promote her own imperialistic aspirations in the Balkans. | | 12 |
6359417485 | Powder Keg | Europe Pre-WWI, called this because one spark could cause the whole continent to erupt into warfare. | | 13 |
6359417486 | Propaganda | Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. | | 14 |
6359417487 | Ration | Restricting the amount of food and other goods people may buy during wartime to assure adequate supplies for the military | | 15 |
6359417488 | Reparations | As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war. Opposed by the U.S., it quickly led to a severe depression in Germany. | | 16 |
6359417489 | Schlieffen Plan | German General Staff's early 20th century overall strategic plan for victory in a possible future war where it might find itself fighting on two fronts: France to the west and Russia to the east. | | 17 |
6359417490 | Self-Determination | The right of people to choose their own form of government | | 18 |
6359417491 | Stalemate | A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible | | 19 |
6359417492 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Treaty which Russia lost substantial territory to the Germans. Ended Russian participation in the WWI | | 20 |
6359417493 | Treaty of Versailles | 1919 treaty that officially ended World War I; the harsh penalties it placed on Germany are regarded as one of the causes of World War II | | 21 |
6359417494 | U-Boats | German submarines used in World War I | | 22 |
6359417495 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924). | | 23 |
6359417496 | War of Attrition | A war based on wearing the other side down by constant attacks and heavy losses | | 24 |
6359417497 | Woodrow Wilson | After World War I, this United States president sought to reduce the risk of war by writing the Fourteen Points that influenced the creation of the League of Nations. | | 25 |
6359417498 | Zeppelins | Large gas filled balloons used by Germany to drop bombs | | 26 |
6359417499 | Zimmerman Note | 1917 - Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany | | 27 |
6359417501 | Anti-Semitism | Hostility to or prejudice against Jews. | | 28 |
6359417502 | Blackshirts | Members of Italian fascists before WWII. It was led by Mussolini. Helped solidify Mussolini's control | | 29 |
6359417503 | Bolshevik Revolution | 1917 uprising in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin which established a communist government and withdrew Russia from World War I. | | 30 |
6359417504 | Collectivization | The process seen in the Soviet Union and Communist China to form communal work units for agriculture and manufacturing--from private hands to large, collective, government operations. | | 31 |
6359417505 | Ethnocentrism | The belief that one's group is of central importance, tendency to judge the practices of other groups by one's own cultural standards. | | 32 |
6359417506 | Eugenics | study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities of the human race and ways to improve those qualities | | 33 |
6359417507 | Fascism | A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule. | | 34 |
6359417508 | Great Depression | (1929-1939) The dramatic decline in the world's economy due to the United State's stock market crash of 1929, the overproduction of goods from World War I, and decline in the need for raw materials from non industrialized nations. Results in millions of people losing their jobs as banks and businesses closed around the world. Many people were reduced to homelessness, and had to rely on government sponsored soup kitchens to eat. World trade also declined as many countries imposed protective tariffs in an attempt to restore their economies. | | 35 |
6359417509 | John Maynard Keynes | Economist who argued that for a nation to recovery fully from a depression, the govt had to spend money to encourage investment and consumption | | 36 |
6359417510 | Joseph Stalin | Bolshevik revolutionary, head of the Soviet Communist Party after 1924, and dictator of the Soviet Union from 1928 to 1953. He led the Soviet Union with an iron fist, using Five-Year Plans to increase industrial production and terror to crush all opposition. | | 37 |
6359417511 | Kristallnacht | (Night of the Broken Glass) 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews. | | 38 |
6359417512 | Kulaks | Russian peasants who became wealthy under Lenin's New Economic Policy | | 39 |
6359417513 | Nazis | Adolf Hitler used fascism to create this type of government based on totalitarian ideas and was used to unite Germany during the 1930s. | | 40 |
6359417514 | New Deal | A series of reforms enacted by the FDR's administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression. | | 41 |
6359417515 | New Economic Policy | Policy proclaimed by Vladimir Lenin in 1924 to encourage the revival of the Soviet economy by allowing small private business and farming using markets instead of communist state ownership. His idea was that the Soviet state would just control "the commanding heights" of the economy like major industry, while allowing ordinary citizens to operate business and property ownership as normal | | 42 |
6359417516 | Nuremberg Laws | 1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood. | | 43 |
6359417517 | Pablo Picasso | a Spanish artist, founder of Cubism, which focused on geometric shapes and overlapping planes | | 44 |
6359417518 | Purge | The process of getting rid of something or someone decisively | | 45 |
6359417519 | Recession | A period of declining economic growth | | 46 |
6359417520 | Red Terror | Campaign of mass killings, torture, and systematic oppression conducted by the Bolsheviks after they seized power in Petrograd and Moscow in 1917 | | 47 |
6359417521 | Self-Sufficiency | The state of not requiring any aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. | | 48 |
6359417522 | Sigmund Freud | A psychologist who developed psychoanalysis. Believed strongly that unconscious drives and desires guided people's actions. | | 49 |
6359417523 | 5-Year Plan | Stalin's plan to reorganize the industry and agriculture to catch up with the industrialized West with collectivization of farms and production quotas in factories | | 50 |
6359417524 | Suffrage | The right to vote | | 51 |
6359417525 | US Stock Market Crash | 1929. This triggered the collapse into the Great Depression. | | 52 |
6359417526 | Xenophobic | Having a fear or hatred for foreigners | | 53 |
6359417528 | Ahimsa | Hindu belief in nonviolence and reverence for all life | | 54 |
6359417529 | Amritsar Massacre | 1919. British soldiers fired upon a group of nonviolent, Indian protestors killing men, women and children in the crowd. Marked a turning point in the Indian independence movement. | | 55 |
6359417531 | Civil Disobedience | A nonviolent, public refusal to obey allegedly unjust laws. | | 56 |
6359417532 | Dollar Diplomacy | Foreign policy of President William Howard Taft, which favored increased American investment in the world as the major method for increasing American influence and stability abroad; in some parts of the world, such as in Latin America, the increased American influence was resented. | | 57 |
6359417533 | Fidel Castro | Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba (born in 1927) | | 58 |
6359417534 | Gandhi | Indian nationalist and spiritual leader who developed the practice of nonviolent disobedience that forced Great Britain to grant independence to India (1947). He was assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. | | 59 |
6359417535 | Good Neighbor Policy | FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rather than military force | | 60 |
6359417536 | Indian National Congress | A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I. Led after 1920 by Mohandas K. Gandhi, appealing to the poor. | | 61 |
6359417537 | Infrastructure | the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g., buildings, roads, and power supplies) needed for the operation of a society or enterprise. | | 62 |
6359417538 | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-Shek) | Nationalist (non-communist) leader in China -overthrown by Mao Zedong | | 63 |
6359417539 | Long March | The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek. (789) | | 64 |
6359417540 | Manchuria | A northern industrial province in China, invaded by the Japanese in 1931. From here the Japanese would launch an invasion of mainland China beginning in 1937. | | 65 |
6359417541 | Mao Zedong | (1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976. | | 66 |
6359417542 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Indian Muslim politician who founded the state of Pakistan. A lawyer by training, he joined the All-India Muslim League in 1913. As leader of the League from the 1920s on | | 67 |
6359417543 | Muslim League | An organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations | | 68 |
6359417544 | Nationalist Party | The party of Chiang Kai-shek. They ruled China from 1928 until the victory of the Communists in 1949. This party led a revolution against the emperor 1911. They also tried to establish a democracy. When they were defeated by the communists they fled to Taiwan.
Guomindang | | 69 |
6359417545 | Neo-Colonialism | A policy whereby a major power uses economic and political means to perpetuate or extend its influence over underdeveloped nations or areas | | 70 |