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Morley - Final Exam
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | extreme pride or sense of belonging in your country or way of life |
| Imperialism | stronger nations create empires by dominating weaker nations economically, politically, culturally, or militarily |
| Social Darwinism (ethnocentrism | belief that your group is better than others and that others should be like you; unifies but discriminates |
| Mother Country | a country that has colonies |
| Direct Rule | the colony was directly administered by the colony |
| Indirect Rule | colonies were given a degree autonomy |
| Partition | to divide up |
| White Man's Burden | the belief that the people of Europe were responsible to help the "lesser" people on other areas of the world |
| The "Scramble" for Africa | when European nations "raced" to control as much land as they could in Africa |
| Interdependence | mutually reliant |
| Mercantilism | commercialism; belief in the benefits of commercial trading |
| Civil Disobedience | refusing to abide by certain laws or pay taxes |
| Militarism | glorification of the military |
| Alliances | formal agreement between two or more powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense |
| Imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| Nationalism | a strong feeling in and devotion to one's country |
| Ultimatum | final set of demands |
| Trench Warfare | fighting armies would dig trenches to protect themselves from enemy fire |
| Stalemate | a deadlock in which neither is able to defeat each other |
| Total War | the channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort |
| Propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause |
| Self-determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Reparations | payment for war damage |
| Totalitarianism | government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of a citizens' lives |
| Communism | a form of socialism belief in the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole |
| Fascism | any centralized, authoritarian government system that isn't communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights |
| Appeasement | policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace |
| Pacifism | opposition to all war |
| Anschluss | union of Austria and germany |
| Blitzkrieg | "lightening war" |
| Concentration Camps | detention centers for civilians considered enemies of the state |
| Genocide | deliberate attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| Kamikaze | Japanese pilots who undertook a suicide mission |
| Island-hopping | a strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while bypassing others |
| D-Day | code name for the day that Allied forces invaded France during WWII, June 6, 1944 |
| Enclosure | the process of taking over and consolidating land formerly owned by peasant farmers |
| Crop Rotation | the process of rotating different crops yearly to keep lands fertile |
| Yield | the full amount of an agricultural or industrial product; amount produced |
| Natural Resources | materials provided by the Earth that humans can use to make more complex products |
| Capital | money or wealth used to invest in a business or enterprise to produce other goods |
| Entrepreneurs | persons who assume financial risk in hopes of profiting |
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