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Topic 17
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abdicate | to give up control of a country |
| authoritarian | enforcing strict obedience to authority (government) at the expense of personal freedom |
| armistice | a truce or agreement to end fighting |
| Aryan | a term misused by the Nazis to describe their "master race" |
| conscription | military draft |
| collectivization | where private farms are eliminated and peasants work land owned by the government |
| concentration camp | where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions |
| depression | a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment |
| fascism | a political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual and emphasizes the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler |
| isolationist | an individual who believes in staying out of alliances and international political and economic relations |
| mobilization | the process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war |
| mandate | a territory temporarily governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations |
| Nazi | a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party |
| propaganda | ideas spread to influence public opinion |
| planned economy | an economic system directed by government agencies |
| reparation | a payment made by the losing side in a war to the winner to cover the costs of the war |
| total war | a conflict that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting the lives of all citizens in warring countries |
| soviet | Russian council made up of representatives from the workers and soldiers |
| war communism | in World War I Russia, the government control of banks and most industries, taking grain from peasants, and centralizing control under the Communist government |
| totalitarian state | a government that aims to control every aspects of its citizens' lives |
| shell shock | psychological problems resulting from intense exposure to war, especially aerial bombardment |
| war of attrition | a war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses |
| Vladimir Lenin | leader of the Bolsheviks and first leader of the Soviet Union |
| Adolf Hitler | appointed chancellor of Germany in 1933 |
| Franklin Roosevelt | leader of the United States during the Great Depression who created the New Deal |
| Benito Mussolini | leader of Italy, the first fascist government |
| Francisco Franco | leader of Spain after winning the civil war there |
| years of World War I | 1914-1918 |
| start of the Great Depression | 1929 |
| the worst year of the Great Depression | 1932 |
| years of the Spanish Civil War | 1936-1939 |
| year of the February and October Russian Revolutions | 1917 |
| causes of World War I | nationalism, imperialism, militarism, alliances |
| members of the Central Powers during WWI | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria |
| members of the Allies during WWI | France, Britain, Russia, United States |
| Treaty of Versailles | treaty to end WWI that made Germany pay reparations, limit their military, and lose their colonies |
| trench warfare | type of fighting for much of WWI on the Western Front |
| Petrograd | city where the Russian Revolutions of 1917 took place |
| "Peace, Land, Bread" | Lenin's slogan to gain support for the Bolsheviks |
| dictatorships | type of government that emerged in many countries because of the Great Depression |
| Guernica | city bombed by Hitler during the Spanish Civil War |
| Joseph Stalin | leader of the Soviet Union beginning in 1927 who started the 5-Year Plans, Great Purge, and Holodomor |
Created by:
Mrs. Marquardt