CH. 18-19 Terms Flashcards
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158762266 | Desertification | The process of turning arable land into harsh desert, common throughout Sahara Desert nations. | 0 | |
158762267 | The Five-Year Plan | A plan similar to Stalin's 10-year plan made by Ataturk for the repairing of Turkey. | 1 | |
158762268 | The Great Depression | The 1930 decade was a horrible economic year for almost the entire world that was touched by WW1 and especially the United States. | 2 | |
158762269 | Hitler Youth | An organization of young children traind by the Nazis in hopes of making numerous proud supportors of the Third Reich and Hitler. | 3 | |
158762270 | il Duce | A title affectionately given to Benito Mussolini by his many Italian fans in Fascist Italy. | 4 | |
158762271 | Influenza Pandemic | This atrocious disease claimed the lives of many soldiers after WW1, in fact perhaps more died because of this outbreak. | 5 | |
158762272 | Jim Crow Laws | This was a list of segregational laws employed in the South United States, such rules made for various facilities for whites and blacks. An atrocity. | 6 | |
158762273 | Josephine Baker | An exotic dancer who performed in Paris, she was a star because of her excellent dancing and her showing of African culture, her native homeland. | 7 | |
158762274 | The League of Nations | A short-lived predecessor of the United Nations, it was initially imaigned by Woodrow Wilson at the conclusion of WW1 in hopes that something so horrible wouldn't ever occur again. | 8 | |
158762275 | Black Shirts | The SS troopers were elite troops serving directly as Hitler's Bodyguard. And as elite commanders in the field as Lieutenants and other officer ranks. | 9 | |
158762276 | Triumph of the Will | A movie created in Nazi Germany, perhaps the grandest movie of mass rising and political propaganda ever. | 10 | |
158762277 | Russian Civil War | A war between the "White" Tsar loyalists and the "Red" Soviets led by the Bolsheviks in Russia. | 11 | |
158762278 | Satyagraha | A new form of protest created by Mohandes Ghandi that favored non-violence in order to not stir up warfare and to keep more people form being killed by the British. | 12 | |
158762279 | Modernism | The theory of being at the front of the world in terms of advancement, to be truly ahead of the game. | 13 | |
158762280 | Modernity | This word is interpreted by many people and people see it in many different ways. This word tries to be achieved by all nations. | 14 | |
158762281 | Ataturk | The leader of the new Turkey that emerged from the Ottoman Empire's ashes after the first World War. Tried to modernize Turkey. | 15 | |
158762282 | Brown Shirts | These Nazi soldiers were higher up on the pecking order, and received their names from their cinnamon-colored apparel. However they were lower than the SS troopers. | 16 | |
158762283 | The Woman Question | Should females be given the right to vote? But we are an equal country, we should shouldn't we? | 17 | |
158762284 | Theodore Roosevelt | An American President, arguably one of the best ever, he ruled well and wildly, a very exciteable and pugnacious man, he ruled until 1904. Led the Progressive Era. | 18 | |
158762285 | The Versailles Conference | The name of the meeting at which the USA, Britain, France, and Austria decided the fates of the Germans for the crime that was WW1. | 19 | |
158762286 | Bolsheviks | Former members of the Social Democratic Party who advocated the destrucction of capitalist political and economic institutions and started the Russian Revolution. In 1918 the Bolsheviks changed their name to the Russian Communist Party. | 20 | |
158762287 | All India Women's Conference (AIWC) | An organization of Indian women, they protested the rights of women numerous times during the English occupation and when Indians came to power. | 21 | |
158762288 | "Massive Migrations" of the late 19th-mid 20th Centuries. | These massive moves were mostly forced due to fear, sickness, and hopes for a better life elsewhere and these occurred beofre and just after World War 1. | 22 | |
158762289 | Africa for the Africans | A morale-raising cry coined by African protestors demanding Africa to be returned to the Africans from the claws of Europe. | 23 | |
158762290 | Black Tuesday | (October 24, 1929) The day of the U.S. stock market crash and led the entire globe into the Great Depression. | 24 | |
158762291 | Duma | The Russian Parliament (elimitated by Stalin) | 25 | |
158762292 | Scientific Management | Nehru believed that the way to get India onto the path for modernization was to promote science and technology. (Post Ghandi) | 26 | |
158762293 | Progressive Era | U.S. Reform movement speared by Theodore Roosevelt in the early 20th Century to eliminate corruption in the USA's political corruption as well as to help better the working conditions of most factories and workplaces. Plus monopolists were weakened drastically. | 27 | |
158762294 | Primitivism | Western art movement of the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries that drew upon the so-called primitive art forms of Africa, Oceania, and pre-Columbian Africa. | 28 | |
158762295 | Sigmund Freud | Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939) | 29 | |
158762296 | Weimar Republic | Constitutional Republic of Germany that was subverted by Hitler soon after he became chancellor. | 30 | |
158762297 | Sun Yat-Sen | The founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, he ruled prior to Chiang Kai-Shek. | 31 | |
158762298 | Kulaks | Originally a prejorative word used to designate better-off peasants, it was used to refer to any peasant perceived as a enemey of the Soviets in 1920's and 1930's. | 32 | |
158762299 | Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh | An organization that cmapaigned to organize Hindus as a militant, modern community. Anti-Muslim. | 33 | |
158762300 | Muslim League | Led by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and they argued that in staets of India where there was a greater Muslim population they were to be allowed to be independent from the Hindus of India. Butted heads with Hindus a lot. | 34 |