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20th Cent. vocab
20th century
Vocabulary | Definition |
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Depression/Great Depression | The economic decline that began in the 1929 and was the worst in the worlds history. |
New deal | Franklin D. Roosevelts's plan for getting the United States out of the Great Depression. |
Treaty of Versailles | The treaty that was signed in 1919 to end WWI.One of the causes of WWII. |
Fourteen Points | President Woodrow Wilsons ideas to end all future world wars. |
Russian Revolution | The action led by Lenin that replaced Czarist Russia with a communist goverment. |
Communism | All property and all means of production belong to the people as a group, private property does not exist and all goods are shared eqally. |
Democracy | Rule by the people. |
Dictators | A ruler with absolute power and authority(Hitler and Mussolini in WWII.) |
Blitzrieg | "Lighting war", German tactic used in World War Two Based on speed and surprised and needed a Mulitary force to be based around light tank units supported by planes and infantry (foot soliders.) |
Alliances | When a country aligns with another country against a 3rd country. |
Isolationism | Americas policy of noninvolvment in European wars and avoidance of "entangling allances." |
Appeasement | Policy of giving into the demands of countries in the hopes of avoiding a war. |
Allies | Great Britain, United States and Russia during WWII. |
Axiz powers | Germany,Italy and Japans alliance during WWII. |
Theaters of Conflict | Different fornts where a country is fighting. (For example in WWII the US fought in both Europe and the Pacific Theaters.) |
Atomic Bomb (Manhattan Project) | A weapon of mass destruction 1st used by america against Japan WWII(US code name for making the 1st atom bomb). |
Holocaust | The killing of an entire group of people planned by a government.(German's plan for getting rid of all the Jewish people). |
Holocaust | The name now used for the mass killing of Jewish people by Nazi Germany. |
United Nations | An international peace keeping organization that came into use at the end of WWII that would help prevent future wars. |
Cold War | A conflict of words and ideas between nations rather then armies. |
Containment | American policy to keep the soviets from gaining control of weak countries. |
Arms Race | A competition among nations to get the most weapons. (especially nuclear weapons) |
Domino Theory | 20th century foreign policy that believed if one country came under the influence of Communists, then more countries would follow. |
Israel Palestine | Country set up for the HJewish people after WWI. Country was split to make Israel. |
Detente | The policy to relax tensions between the communists and the free world. |
Cuban Missile Crisis | A very tense confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States over the Soviet deployment of nucleur missiles in Cuba. |
Space Race | An informal but serious competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to be the first to explore outer space. |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization- an organization of America and most European countries for collective security establised in 1949. |