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Unit 3 Vocabulary
European History
Term | Definition |
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Reunification | To be reunited with another |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet statesman whose policies brought an end to the Cold War |
Berlin Wall | a guarded concrete wall, 28 miles (45 km), with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989. |
Communism | the theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common; based on the theory of Karl Marx |
Catholicism | A religion relating to the Christian church as a whole |
Nationalism | taking great pride in one’s own nation; asserting the interest of one’s own nation |
Alliance | An agreement between two or more parties, made in order to advance common goals |
Cold War | A struggle over political differences between two countries carried on by methods short of war and usually without breaking diplomatic relations |
Joseph Stalin | Russian leader who succeeded Lenin as the leader of the communist party |
Winston Churchill | British statesman and leader during WWII |
Franklin Roosevelt | The 32nd President who was elected four times during the Great Depression and WWII |
Holocaust | The killing of European civilians especially of Jews by the Nazis during WWII |
WWI | The first war involving most of the world’s chief nations |
WWII | The second war involving all or most of the world’s chief nations |
Great Depression | The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930’s |
Treaty | An agreement or arrangement made by negotiation |
Russian Revolution | A Russian Civil War lasting from 1917 – 1922 |
Superpower | A major country in the world that has vast political power; after WWII the US and the USSR emerged as this type of country |
Adolf Hitler | The leader of the Nazis Party during WWII |
Berlin Airlift | Airlift in 1948 that supplied Western Berlin with food and fuel since the USSR had blocked the US from aiding the Germans |
Propaganda | Information, usually misleading or biased to promote a particular political ideology |