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World History Semest
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| nationalism | the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation- that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history- rather than to a king or empire |
| separation | |
| state building | |
| unification | |
| revolutions of the 1830s | |
| Bismarck | |
| Cavour | |
| Conservatives | in the first half of the 19th century, a European- usually a wealthy landowner or noble- who wanted to preserve the traditional monarchies of Europe |
| Franco-Prussian War | |
| Garibaldi | |
| Political Liberal | |
| propaganda | information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
| alliances | |
| Central Powers | in World War I, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side |
| rationing | the limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy- often imposed by governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply |
| total war | a conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort |
| Archduke of Austria-Hungary | |
| Fourteen Points | a series of proposals in which US president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I |
| League of Nations | an international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations |
| Powder Keg | |
| reparations | |
| capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit |
| collective farm | a large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms |
| Five Year Plans | plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy |
| Great Purge | a campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power |
| socialism | an economic system in which the factors of production are owned by the public and operate for the welfare of all |
| Soviet Communism | |
| communism | an economic system in which all means of production- land, mines, factories, railroads, and businesses- are owned by the people, private property does not exist, and all goods and services are shared equally |
| appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war |
| fascism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule |
| lebensraum | "living space"- the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded |
| Albert Einstein | |
| Axis Powers | in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936 |
| demilitarization of Japan | a reduction in a country's ability to wage war, achieved by disbanding its armed forces and prohibiting it from acquiring weapons |
| Final Solution | Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people |
| blitzkrieg | "lightning war"- a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces |
| Battle of Midway | a 1942 sea and air battle of World War II, in which American forces defeated Japanese forces in the central Pacific |
| Dwight Eisenhower | |
| Nagasaki and Hiroshima | |
| Nuremberg Trials | a series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried fro aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity |
| Warsaw Pact | a military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries |
| NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization- a defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada |
| Iron Curtain | during the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe |
| Sputnik I | |
| containment | a US foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances |
| SDI | |
| détente | a policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon |
| Third World countries | during the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union |
| Douglas MacArthur | |
| Ho Chi Minh | |
| Khmer Rouge | a group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia in 1975 |
| Truman Doctrine | announced by President Harry Truman in 1947, a US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents |
| Cultural Revolution | a 1966-1976 uprising in China led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal |
| Mao Zedong |
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