The Twentieth Century and Contemporary World Cultures Flashcards

(1914-present)

164195224	World War 1	(1914-1918) known as the "Great War"	0
164195225	nationalism	the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other	1
164195226	Western Front	In WWI, the region of Northern France where the forces of the Allies and the Central Powers battled each other.	2
164195227	Germany	stuck with the Bill from WWI	3
164195228	Schlieffen Plan	Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia.	4
164195229	Armenian genocide	Assault carried out by mainly Turkish military forces against Armenian population in Anatolia in 1915; over a million Armenians perished and thousands fled to Russia and the Middle East.	5
164195230	decolonization	The acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.	6
164195231	League of Nations	An organization of nations formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace.	7
164195232	Treaty of Versailles	the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans	8
164195233	Great Depression	the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s	9
164195234	totolitarianism	dictatorship in its most extreme form.	10
164206679	Lenin	Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)	11
164206680	Stalin	Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as head of the Communist Party and created a totalitarian state by purging all opposition	12
164206681	Trotsky	Was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution, second only to Lenin.	13