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vocab for WH
World history ch. 15-18
| vocab | definition |
|---|---|
| imperialism | Domination of one country of the political life of another country |
| protectorate | AN imperialist system in which local rulers were left to rule |
| sphere of influence | area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges |
| missionary | People who sought to covert others to Chritianity |
| elite | upper class |
| pasha | provincial ruler |
| Genocide | a deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| concessions | Special economic rights given to foreign powers |
| sati | ancient Hindu custom widow would throw herself into her husband's funeral fire |
| sepoy | Indian soldiers in service either in India or abroad |
| viceroy | British citizen who governed in India in the name of the Queen |
| deforestation | cutting down of trees |
| trade surplus | when a country exports more tahn it imports |
| trade deficit | when a country buys more than it sells |
| indemnity | Payment for losses in war |
| extraterritoriality | The right of foreingners to live under their own laws and be tried in their own courts |
| Diet | legislature |
| zaibatsu | powerful Japanese banking and industrial families |
| homogeneous society | a common culture and language that gives a society a sense of identity |
| indigenous | original inhabitants of a region |
| confederation | unification |
| dominion | self-governing nation |
| regionalism | loyalty to a local area |
| caudillo | loacal strongmen who resisted the central government |
| economic dependence | When less-developd nations export rew materials to industrial nations and import manufactured goods, capital, and technology |
| peonage | A system in which rich land owners would give workers advances in wages and require them to stay until those advances were paid off |
| pacifism | opposition to all war |
| militarism | The glorification of the military |
| entente | non-binding agreement to follow common policies |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| mobilize | prepare military forces for war |
| neutrality | policy of supporting neither side in war |
| stalemate | A deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other |
| no man's land | Area of land betwwen opposing trenches |
| convoy | groups of merchant ships protected by warships |
| total war | Channeling of a nation's reasources toward the war effort |
| conscription | The draft |
| atrocity | horrible acts against innocent people |
| self-determination | The right of people to choose their own form of government |
| armistice | Agreement to end fighting |
| proletariat | growing class of factory and railroad workers , miners, and urban wage earners |
| soviet | councils of workers and soldiers |
| commissar | Communist party officials assigned to the army to teach party principles |
| command econamy | when government officials make all economic decisions |
| collective | large farms owned and |
| kulak | wealthy peasants |
| tolalitarian state | form of government; one-party dictatorship which regulates every aspect of a society |
| atheism | belief that there is no god |
| socialist realism | art style that boosted socialism by showing Soviet life in a positive light |
| ahimsa | Hindu respect/reverance of all life |
| civil disobedience | the act of refusing unjust laws and accepting the consequences |
| chancellor | prime minister |
| repudiate | rejected |
| concentration camp | detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state |
| sanction | penalties |
| appeasement | giving into the demands of an aggressor to keep peace |
| Anschluss | Union of Austria and Germany |
| blitzkrieg | lightening war |
| radar | device used to dectect airplanes |
| sonar | device used to dectect submarines |
| collaborator | helped Nazi's hunt down Jews & ship them to camps |
| repartions | payment for damages caused by imprisionment |
| kamikaze | Japanese suiside bombers |
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