A World at War
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 nationalism | strong loyalty to one's own country & culture |
| alliance | agreement between countries that ties their interests together |
| Franz Ferdinand | heir to throne of Austria-Hungary; murdered by Serbian nationalist |
| Lusitania | ship sunk by German submarines |
| armistice | agreement to stop fighting |
| Treaty of Versaille | treaty ending World War I |
| tsar | Russian monarch |
| St. Petersburg | old capital of Russia |
| strike | refusal to work |
| Lenin | led Bolshevik revolution in Russia |
| Josef Stalin | Soviet leader who replaced Lenin |
| totalitarian | control of all aspects of peoples' lives |
| fascism | government whose goals are more important than individual goals |
| Adolf Hitler | fascist dictator of Germany |
| inflation | rising prices |
| propaganda | spreading of ideas that are exaggerated or falsified |
| nuclear arms race | buildup of nuclear arms by U.S.A. and Soviet Union |
| Fidel Castro | communist leader of Cuba |
| John F. Kennedy | American President during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Allies | U.K., U.S.A, Russia; World War II |
| Axis | Japan, Germany, Italy; World War II |
| Winston Churchill | British leader during World War II |
| Franklin Roosevelt | American leader during World War II |
| D-Day (Operation Overlord) | Allied invasion of German-held France |
| Holocaust | deliberate destruction of Jews and others by the Germans in World War II |
| Sun Yat Sen | leader of the Republic of China |
| Chian Kai-Shek | nationalist leader in China |
| Mao Zedong | communist leader in China |
| commune | organized community where all members share the work and resources |
| Cultural Revolution | ten year period in China when Mao Zedong wanted total control of the people |
| superpower | country much stronger than other countries |
| free enterprise | economy based on private ownership of land and businesses |
| command economy | government controls all resources and production |
| NATO | Cold War alliance; U.S.A is member |
| Communism | totalitarian government that controls nearly every aspect of peoples' lives |
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