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Social Science
JCC AcaDeca 2017 WWII Social Science
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | Leader of Imperial Germany until 1918, when worker strikes forced him to flee the country. |
| Western Front | Area of Western Europe stretching from the English Channel in the north and running through Belgium and Northern France to the Swiss border at the South. |
| Central Powers | Power of WWII made up of Imperial Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria. |
| Allied Powers | Power of WWII that opposed Central Powers, made up of British Empire, France, the Russian Empire, and eventually the US |
| Big Four | Georges Clemenceau o France, David Lloyd George of Great Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, and Woodrow Wilson of the US |
| Reparations | Payment of money or goods for damage inflicted during war. |
| League of Nations | Formed during Treaty of Versailles, would mediate future conflicts. |
| Self-Determination | Woodrow Wilson's idea that national boundaries should mirror the national makeup of a country |
| Article 231 | Infamous "War Guilt" clause, basically blamed Germany for WWI |
| Weimar Republic | Provisional government that replaced the imperial regime under Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| Fascism | Violently nationalistic, anti-liberal, and anti-communist political movement, first used by Benito Mussolini. |
| Benito Mussolini | Fascist leader of Italy in the 20s-40s |
| Joseph Stalin | Leader of the Soviet Union in the 20s and throughoutWWII |
| Vladmir Lenin | First leader of Communism in Russia, starting in 1917 and ending in 1924 |
| Collectivization | Process implemented in Soviet Russia where small farms were consolidated into larger, state-run farms where peasants had to work a certain number of days a year to fulfill production quotas. |
| Five-Year Plan | Joseph Stalin's plan designed to move citizens into industrial work on and off of farms. |
| Show Trials | Trials of top-ranking officials in the Soviet Union that were thought not to be loyal to Joseph Stalin. These were widely public |
| Gulag | Prison camp where nearly 1 million people died. Many people here were tortured and abused until they confessed to made-up crimes. |
| Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party | Hitler's Nazi Party, a large reflection of his own political beliefs. |
| Anti-semitism | Hatred of Jews |
| Aryans | The descendants of which Hitler thought were a superior Caucasian people. |
| Reichstag | Building that mysteriously caught fire and was blamed on Communists, allowing Hitler to basically take full control of Germany |
| Enabling Act | Suspended the Weimar constitution, granting Hitler full power for 4 years. |
| Dachau | The first concentration camp, established in March of 1933 to house political prisoners and other undesirables. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Stripped Jews of their citizenship, defined who officially counted as a Jew, and forbade marriage between Jews and pureblooded Germans |
| Kristallnacht | Rose from tensions created by the Nuremberg Laws, consisted of a Polish Jew assassinating a Nazi Party official. |
| Militarism | The idea that a country must maintain a strong military and utilize it aggressively expand its place in the world or to defend itself from outside threats. |
| Anschluss | Union between Germany and Austria, which was strictly forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles |
| Polish Corridor | 20 Mile wide swath of land that gave Poland access to the Baltic Sea |
| Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact | Outlined both countries' long-term goals in Eastern Europe, but also secretly contained provisions for the division of Poland between them. |
| Blitzkrieg | 'Lightning War' method employed by Germans in WWII, the first example of which was in Hitler's attack on Poland on September 1, 1939. |
| Luftwaffe | German Army and Air Force |
| Sitzkrieg | The so called "Phoney-War" where British and French Governments took no action upon Germany's invasion of Poland |
| U-Boats | Submarines Germany sent to the Atlantic to attack Allied ships once war broke out between the powers. |
| Maginot Line | Thought to be an impenetrable line of forts on the border of Germany and France, built by the French. |
| Ardennes Forest | 250-mile gap in the Maginot Line along the border of Belgium, left open because of possible tensions between Belgium, and difficulty of troop transport through the area. |
| Operation Market Garden | Montgomery's attempt to break through German lines. Consisted of dropping three airborne divisions behind German lines in order to seize key bridges. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Year-long battle between (mainly) American forces and German forces taking place in the Ardennes forest. |
| Quarantine Speech | Speech given by Franklin Roosevelt in 1937, condemning the aggressive actions of nations like Japan, Italy, and Germany |
| Triparite Pact | Signed in September 1940, brought Italy, Germany, and Japan more closely in alignment. |
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