Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World History Vocabi
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Militarism- | Policy of glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war |
| Imperialism- | A policy by which a country increases its power by gaining control over the area of the world |
| Nationalism- | A feeling that people have being loyal and proud of their country |
| Alliance- | Union between people, groups, countries |
| Tension- | A feeling of being nervous |
| Balkans- | Area in Southern Europe |
| Assassination | To kill someone |
| Western Front- | Zone of fighting in West Europe |
| Eastern Front- | Zone of fighting in Eastern Europe |
| Trench Warfare | A type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other |
| Stalemate- | In war, when neither side can gain advantage or win |
| No Man’s Land- | Land of fighting between two countries |
| Stagnant- | Not active, changing or progressing |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare- | Policy of the German navy during WWl that would sink any ship without warning that was in the waters around Britain |
| Total War- | Where everyone helps during the war including women |
| Rationing- | Controlled distribution |
| Propaganda- | make people feel safe while lying Making someone (other country) look bad by videos, photos |
| Armistice- | Agreement of all countries to stop fighting |
| Woodrow Wilson- | U.s president who made the 14 points |
| Fourteen Points- | Free trade, be nice to colonies |
| Self-Determination- | -Determine by yourself what the Gov. should do |
| Treaty of Versailles- | Major Peace agreement |
| League of Nations- | International comity of countries |
| Proletariat-Marxist | group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to Paris |
| Bourgeoisie- | The upper class/factory owners |
| Bolsheviks- | Radical Marxist |
| Vladimir Lenin | -Leader of the Bolsheviks in Russian Rev. First leader of communist Russia |
| Provisional Gov. | Temporary Gov. |
| Soviet- | - One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas |
| Communist Party- | Political Party |
| Joseph Stalin- | Ruler of Communist Party |
| Autocratic- | Ruling with total power over everything |
| Pogrom- | -The organized killing of many people by Stalin/Communist Party |
| Marxist- | People who believe in teaching of Karl Marx |
| NEP- | New economic Policy |
| Slump- | To move down of forward suddenly |
| Investment- | Act of using money to earn more |
| Stock Market- | The business or activity of buying and selling stock |
| Debt - | Amount of money someone owns |
| Supply | -things |
| Demand- | A strong need for something |
| Labor Union- | An organization of workers to protect the rights and interests of its members |
| Coalition Gov.- | -A group of people/countries who joined together for common purpose |
| Stability- | The quality or state of being stable |
| Kuomintang (Guomingand)- | Chinese National Party formed in 1913 |
| Sun Yixian (Yat Sen)- | First Great leader of China |
| Mao Zedong- | Chinese Communist Party |
| Jiang Jieshi- | Leader of China after Sun |
| Long March- | 6000 mile journey |
| Red army- | People who participated in Long March |
| Three Principles of People- | Nationalism, People’s rights and live hood |
| Manchuria- | Region of Asia, rich in natural resources |
| Totalitarianism | a gov’t that takes total state control of every aspect of citizen life |
| Indoctrination: | : instruction in the gov’t belief |
| Propaganda: | low-cost posters, traditional painting, altered photographs |
| Censorship: | when the gov’t blocks out something so the public can’t see/hear it |
| Police State | a country in which activites of the people are strict/controlled |
| Great Purge: | a campaign of terror directed at eliminating anyone who threatened Stalins power |
| Command Economy: | a system in which the gov’t made all economic decisions |
| Five-Year Plan: | set impossible high quotas, to increase the output of steel, coal, oil, and electricity |
| Collective Farms: | large government owned farms |
| Kulaks: | wealthy private landowners in the USSR that own large farms. They don’t like the Collective Farms |
| Seize: | to attack and take control of by force or violence |
| Regime: | the form of government in place |
| Fascism: | : a new militant political movement that emphasized loyalty to the state |
| Benito Mussolini: | a newspaper editor and politician; leader of Italy |
| Adolf Hilter: | political leader of Germany |
| Nazism: | the fascism political of the National Socialist German Workers Party |
| Lebensraum: | “living space” the additional space that Germany needed for overcrowding |
| Il Duce: | Mussolini, leader of Italy, nickname |
| Der Fuhrer: | : Hitler, leader of Germany, nicname |
| Anti-Seminist: | : againt Jewish people |
| Appeasement: | giving in to an aggressor to keep peace |
| Axis Powers: | Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Third Reich | German empire |
| Anschluss | Anschluss: union of Germany |
| D-Day | June 6, 1944; the day on which the Allies begain their invasion of the Euro. during WWII |
| Kamikaze | : Japanese suicide pilots |
| Home Front | the civilian population whose armed forces are engaged in war abroad |
| V-E Day | : May 8, 1945; victory in Europe Day |
| Island Hopping | : American strategy in the Pacific during WWII |
| Nuremburg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Nuremburg after WWII; Nazi leaders were tried for aggression and violations of the rules of war |
| Demilitarization | : a reduction in a countries ability to wage war when the US took apart all of the Japanese armed forces |
| Occupation | : another country comes in and takes over your government |
| Total War | : a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
Created by:
wiki55
Popular World History sets