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Final Exam-TG-S.S.
This is the 2nd Quarter review for S.S.
| Name | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | the belief that a specific nation, language, or cultures are superior to all others |
| Militarism | strong influence of military values on society |
| Trench Warfare | deep ditches used to fight against each other |
| Lusitania | A british passenger linner of the coast of Ireland. Germany attacked the boat and Americans died. |
| Sussex Pledge | made by Germany sayng that they won't kill innocent lives without warning |
| Zimmermann Note | A note made by Arthur Zimmermann telling Mexico to attack U.S. to go to war against Germany. |
| Selective Service Act | (WW1) Required men from ages 21-30 to be drafted into the war. |
| Reparation | payments for damges and expenseds casued by war |
| League of Nations | a congress of nations formed to settle international dispuites and maintain peace and collective security |
| Treaty of Versailles | It contained some of Wilson's Fourteen Points and used natioal self-determination. The treaty brought un many countries and decided what type of goverment they will have. |
| Red Scare | A widespread of fear of political radicals mainly communits. This caused people to think we would become communits. |
| Herbert Hoover | the president to U.S. who didn't help during the Great Deppression |
| Flappers | women who wore loose clothes and unbuckeled coats that flapped |
| Prohibition | banning of the manufacture, sale nd transportation of alchool |
| Eigteenth Amendment | The amendment said banning of the manufacture, sale and transportation of alchool |
| Buying on Margin | buying stocks on credit with a loan form a broker |
| Black Tuesday | Stock Market Crash (October 29, 19290 |
| Great Depression | when a nation was in a locked and downward economical spiral |
| Twenty-First Amendment | Banned the 18th Amendment |
| Fascism | strong goverment led by one person |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union leader who led a totalitarianism goverment |
| Benito Mussolini | dictator of Italy who had an army called the blackshirts |
| Adolf Hitler | Hitler was a German dictator who hated the Jews and led Germany into WW2 |
| Appeasment | giving in to an aggressor to keep peace |
| Winston Churchill | British Polotican who hated that British gave an area to Hitler |
| Blitzkreig | lightning war |
| Internment | Goverment forcibly relocated and impriosned Japanese Amercians |
| War Production Board | (WPB) Suprivised the conservasion of factories to warline production |
| Atomic Bomb | A wepon that produced great destructive power by splitting atoms. This was made during the Manhattan Project |
| Genocide | the deliberate murder of an entire people |
| Holocaust | the attempt by Hitler and the Nazis to murder the Jews of Europe |
| Evian Conference | A conference in U.S. to discuss about Jews and how to help them. |
| Ghetto | It was a place where Jews were kept in. The jews starved, got sick and got overpacked. |
| Nazi | National Socialist German Workers Party |
| Numberg Laws | it was used for racial discrimination against Jews |
| Imperialism | the practice of building an empire by founding colonies or conquering other nations |
| Ku Klax Klan | Secreat Society created by white southerners in 1866 that used terror and violence to keep Africian Amercans form obtaning their civil rights laws. |
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