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WWI & Fascism
(Willis) WWI & The Rise of Fascism
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The alliance system of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, and the Ottoman Empire. | Triple Alliance |
| The alliance system of France, Russia, Britain, Japan, and eventually the United States. | Triple Entente |
| The belief that a government should maintain a powerful military. | Militarism |
| This sparked tensions all over Europe and is the cause for WWI. | Nationalism |
| This term means to prepare for war. | Mobilize |
| Not helping or supporting either side in a conflict. | Neutral |
| This military plan was designed by German and it was supposed to avoid a two front war. | Schlieffen Plan |
| Pride in one's country. | Nationalism |
| A position where neither side is making an advantage during a time of war. | Stalemate |
| The area of land between two opposing trenches. | No Man's Land |
| These were created to move above and through the trenches. | Tanks |
| The German's used these gas filled balloons to bomb the English coast. | Zeppelins |
| These were used in dramatic aerial "dogfights." | Airplanes |
| This new technology had the biggest effect on WWI and were used to sink enemy ships carrying vital supplies. | U-Boats |
| A group of ships traveling together for protection. | Convoy |
| A military conflict where a county is willing to make any sacrifice in the live and resources to obtain victory. | Total War |
| Compulsory enlistment for military service, also known as the draft. | Conscription |
| Information used to promote a particular political viewpoint. | Propaganda |
| An agreement to stop fighting during a war for a certain time. | Armistice |
| President Wilson's plan for achieving a just and lasting peace. | Fourteen Points |
| The name for the victorious Allied leaders that discussed the fate of Europe after WWI. | The Big Three |
| The peace treaty created at the end of WWI that Germany was forced to sign. | Treaty of Versailles |
| President Wilson's plan for achieving a just and lasting peace. | Fourteen Points |
| The guiding idea behind the Fourteen Points that allowed people in Europe to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live. | Self-determination |
| An international association whose goal would be to keep peace among European nations. | League of Nations |
| Payment for war damages. | Reparations |
| The idea that several countries align with one another to strengthen the security of each. | Collective security |
| He was the Czar of Russia during WWI. Russians lost confidence in his government. | Nicholas II |
| He was the "mad monk" that was assassinated by Russian nobles. | Rasputin |
| This event in Russia occured in 1917, when Russian workers went on strike changind for bread. | March Revolution |
| To give up any ruling titles. | Abdicate |
| The national elected legislature in Russian government. | Duma |
| A socialist revolutionary group in the Russian government that favored gradual reform, higher wages, increased suffrage, and welfare programs. | Mensheviks |
| A socialist revolutionary group in the Russian Duma that wanted radical change and favored total revolution. | Bolsheviks |
| Another word for something that is temporary. | Provisional |
| An extremist, especially in politics. | Radical |
| He was the leader of the Bolshevik party. | V.I. Lenin |
| In 1922, Lenin united Russian lands into this and adopted a new constitution. | Union os Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) |
| The word Karl Marx used to describe the working class. | Proletariat |
| The Russian secret police. | Cheka |
| Councils of workers and soldiers. | Soviets |
| Communist party officals assigned to the army to teach party principles and ensure party loyalty. | Commissars |
| France built massive fortifications along its border with Germany. | Maginot Line |
| It was sponsored by the U.S. Almost every independent nation signed this agreement, promising to renounce war. | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| The reduction of armed forces and weapons. | Disarmament |
| A strike by workers in many different industries at teh same time. | General strike |
| A condition in which the production of goods exceeds the demand for them. | Overprodution |
| The management of money matters, including the circulation of money, loans, investments, and banking. | Finance |
| The central banking system of the United States. | Federal Reserve |
| A painful time of global economic collapse. | Great Depression |
| In 1932, Americans elected a new President to deal with the Great Depression. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) |
| A massive package of economic and social programs to try to ease the affects of the Great Depression. | New Deal |
| In 1919, they began guerilla war against British forces for Irish independence. | Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
| A temporary alliance of political parties forming a government. | Coalition |
| A time when Americans feared radicals and communist. | Red Scare |
| He was an extreme nationalist that formed the Fascist party. | Benito Mussolini |
| Mussolini's party followers. | Black Shirts |
| Tens of thousands of Fascists swarmed towards the capital of Italy. As a result, the King made Mussolini Prime Minister. | March on Rome |
| In this form of government, a one-party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens. | Totalitarian State |
| An authoritarian government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights. | Fascism |
| An economic system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions. | Command economy |
| large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group. | Collectives |
| The wealthy Russian farmers. | Kulaks |
| A system of brutal labor camps. | Gulag |
| Stalin required artists and writers to create their works in this style. Its goal was to show Soviet life in a positive light and promote hope in the communist future. | Socialist realism |
| Making a nationality's culture more Russian. | Russification |
| The belief that there is no God. | Atheism |
| The purpose of this group was to encourage world-wide revolution. | Comintern |
| The leader of the Soviet Union, who turned it into a totalitarian state. | Joseph Stalin |
| Stalin's plan to build up industry in Russia and bring the economy under state conrol. | Five-Year Plan |
| This event is when the government seized all the grain to meet industiral standards, leaving the peasants to starve. Causing 8 million people to die in the Ukraine alone. | Terror Famine of 1932 |
| During this event in 1934, Stalin targeted former Communist army heroes, industrial managers, and ordinary citizens. | Great Purge |
| Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. | Propaganda |
| To examine material that is about to be released, such as books, movies, news, and art, and suppresses any parts that are considered obscene, politically unacceptable, or a threat to security. | Censor |
| Another title for prime minister. | Chancellor |
| When Germany fell behind in reparation payment, France occupied this coal-rich area. | Ruhr Valley |
| Hitler wrote this book that would later become the basic book of Nazi ideology and goals. | Mein Kampf |
| Hitler's empire where the German master race would dominate Europe for a thousand years. | Third Reich |
| Hitler's secret police that rooted out opposition. | Gestapo |
| The 1935 policy which deprived Jews of German citizen- ship and placed severe restrictions on them. | Nuremberg Laws |
| An attack on Jews that took place November 9 and 10th all across Germany, Austria, and Nazi controlled Czechoslovakia. | Kristallnacht |
| The leader of the Nazi party. | Adolf Hitler |
| A democratic government set up in Germany after WWI. It faced many problems like infaltion and many political parties. | Weimar Republic |
| When the prices of goods increase, but dollar value decreasing. | Inflation |
| Discrimination against and hostility towards Jews. | Anti-semitism |
| Another word for communists, since they follow the ideas of Karl Marx. | Marxists |
| Hitler's plan to ruthlessely exterminate all European Jews. | Final Solution |
| Where the Nazis indoctrinated young people, children were forced to join. | Hitler Youth |
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