Term | Definition |
Nationalism | strong pride in one's nation or ethnic group. |
Colonialism | A system by which a country maintains colonies outside its borders. |
Austria-Hungary | In the 1900s, a dual monarchy in which the Hapsburg emperor ruled both Austria and Hungary. |
dual monarchy | A form of government in which one ruler governs two nations. |
World War 1 | A war fought from 1914 to 1918 between the Allies (Russia, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the United States) and the Central Powers (Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkey, and Bulgaria). |
alliance | an agreement among people or nations to unite for a common cause and to help any alliance member that is attacked. |
Adolf Hitler | a Nazi man who wanted to get rid of all of the Jews and also he started World War 2. |
fascism | a political philosophy that promotes a strong,
central government controlled by the military and led by a powerful dictator. |
Holocaust | the organized killing of European Jews and others by the Nazis during World War 2. |
World War 2 | a war fought from 1939 to 1945 between Axis powers (Germany Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States). |
NATO | the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a defense alliance formed in 1949, with the countries of Western Europe, Canada, and the United States agreeing to defend one another if attacked. |
Iron Curtain | a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after World War 2, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. |
puppet government | a government that is controlled by an outside force. |
one-party system | a system in which there is only one political party and only one candidate to choose from for each government position. |
Joseph Stalin | he was the ruler of the soviet union during World War 2. |
collective farm | a government-owned farm that employs large number of workers, often in Communist countries. |
Warsaw Pact | a treaty signed in 1955 that established an alliance among the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. |
Cold War | after World War 2, a period of political noncooperation between the members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations, during which these countries refused to trade or cooperate with each other. |