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European History
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| Russia, Great Britain, France, United States (1917) | Allies (WWI) |
| A formal ceasefire (a stop to fighting) | Armistice |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire | Central Powers |
| A sociopolitical model wherein all property is publicly owned and workers are paid according to their abilities and needs | Communism |
| In economics, a long-term, sustained downturn in economic activity | Depression |
| A political movement supporting strong, authoritarian government dictatorship | Facist |
| Leader of the communist revolution in Russia during World War I | Vladimir Lenin |
| A political movement in Germany, from the end of World War I through the end of World War II, which espoused totalitarian government, staunch nationalism, and racial supremacy | Nazism |
| A federation of communist countries in Eastern Europe, led by Russia, from the time of the Russian Revolution until its collapse in 1991 at the end of the Cold War | Soviet Union (USSR) |
| The 1919 treaty which formally brought World War I to an end | Treaty of Versailles |
| Also known as the “Great War” or the “War to End all Wars,” a global conflict occurring between 1914 and 1918, primarily in Europe | World War I |
| Racial bias or prejudice against Jews. The hatred of Jews | Anti-Semitism |
| United States, Great Britain, France, Soviet Union | Allies (WWII) |
| Germany, Italy, Japan | Axis |
| General term for a Nazi-controlled detention center where Jews, et al were detained, used as forced labor, and exterminated | Concentration Camp |
| An area of a city where Jews were isolated from the rest of the German population during the Holocaust | Ghetto |
| Chancellor of Germany and leader of the Nazi regime during World War II | Adolf Hitler |
| The Nazi internment, forced labor, and extermination of nearly 11 million people during World War II, an estimated 6 million of whom were Jews | Holocaust |
| Information, usually misleading or biased, designed to promote a particular political ideology | Propaganda |
| A global conflict occurring between 1939 and 1945. The deadliest conflict in human history | World War II |
| A state of political hostility between countries without an outright declaration of war | Cold War |
| The capital of Germany | Berlin |
| The official name of West Germany during the Cold War. This was the democratic side. | Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) |
| The official name of East Germany during the Cold War. This was the communist side. | German Democratic Republic (GDR) |
| Communist states of Central and Eastern Europe during the Cold War | Communist Bloc |
| A term coined by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill describing the sociopolitical and ideological divide between the West and East (especially the Soviet Union) | Iron Curtain |
| A 91-mile wall surrounding West Berlin from 1961 through 1989 | Berlin Wall |
| The reintegration of West and East Germany into a single nation in 1990 | German Reunification |
| A person without a paying job but with the ability to work | Unemployment |
| A radical communist faction within the Russia that was commanded by Vladimir Lenin | Bolsheviks |
| A situation where the prices of all goods and services rise uncontrollably over a defined time period | Hyperinflation |
| A defeated state paying money for war damages to a victorious state | Reparations |
| Coming back together again after being separated or in conflict | Reunification |
| Identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations | Nationalism |
| Countries that possess significant military, economic, and political influence on a global scale | Superpower |
| Created in 1949 by the United States and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union | NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) |
| An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit | Capitalism |
| Involving more than one country | International |
| To forcibly put an end to something or to prevent the development, action, or expression of a feeling or idea | Suppress |
| A strained state or condition resulting from forces acting in opposition to each other | Tension |
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