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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause |
| balance of trade | difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports |
| ultimatum | final set of demands |
| trade deficit | situation in which a country imports more than it exports |
| maginot line | massive fortifications built by the French along the French border with Germany in the 1930's to protect against future invasions |
| stalemate | deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat each other |
| imperialism | domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region |
| flapper | in the 1920's a rebellious young woman |
| genocide | an attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group |
| nuremberg laws | laws approved by Nazi that deprived Jews of rights and citizenship |
| soviet | council of workers set up by russian revolutionaries in 1917 |
| radicals | person who wants to make extreme changes |
| prohibition | a ban on manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages in the U.S. from 1920 - 1933 |
| mandates | territory ruled by western powers |
| black shirts | any memeber of the militant combat squads of Italian fascist set up under Mussolini |
| trade surplus | when a country exprots more than it imports |
| entente | non binding agreement to follow common economics |
| kellogg briand pact | an international agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928, to stop using war as a methond of national policy |
| fourteen points | list of terms for resolving WWI and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in Jan 1918 |
| total war | channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort |
| holocaust | the genocide of 6 million jews by nazi in WWII |
| disarmament | reduction of armed forces and weapons |
| kamikaze | japanese pilots who undertook in suicide missions |
| fascism | any organized gov. that is noncommunist and protect an individuals rights |
| guerrillas | soldier in a loosely organized force |
| great depression | a painful time of global economic collapse starting in 1929 and lasting until 1939 |
| v e day | vicotry day in europe May 8, 1945 |
| recession | period of reduced economic activity |
| comintern | communist international , international group of communist partiest led by S.U. for encouraging world-wide communist revolution |
| neutrality acts | a series of acts passed by the United Sates Congress from 1935 to 1939 that aimed to keep the U.S. from becoming involved in WWII |
| nazi soviet pact | agreement between Germany and Soviet Union in 1939 in whih the 2 nations promised no to fight each other and to divide up land in Eastern Europe |
| detnete | relaxation of Cold Ware tension during the 1970's |
| nikita khrushchev | the new leader of the soviet union |
| speakeasies | illegal bars |
| manhattan project | code name for the project to build the 1st atomic bomb druing WWII |
| lend lease act | act passed by the U.S. congress in 1941 that allowed (FDR) to sell and lend war supplies to any contry who was vital to the U.S. |
| domino theory | the belief that a communist victory in S. Vietman would cause non communist gov. across souteast asia to fall to communist rule. |
| general strike | strike by workers in many different industries at the same time |
| mohammad mosaddeq | the leader of Iran's monarch shah mohammad reza pahlavi |
| secular | non religious |
| marshall plan | massive aid package offered by the U.S. to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII |
| warsaw pact | mutual defense alliance between the S.U. and 7 satellites in eastern europe set up in 1955 |
| islamists | a person who wants government policies to be based on the teachings of islam |
| theocracy | government ruled by religious leaders |
| d day | june 6, 1944 the day that allied forces invaded france during WWII |
| NATO | a military alliance between several north atlantic states to safeground them from the presumed threat of the S.U. communist bloc; countries from other regious later joined the alliance |
| ruhollah khomeini | an exile who was a religious leader |
| sandinistas | a socialist political movement and party that had power in Nicaguara during the 1980's |
| indigenous | original or native to a country or region |
| OAS | a group formed in 1948 to promote democracy, economic cooperation, and human rights in the Americas |
| contra | guerillas who fought the sandinistas in Nicaragua |
| argibuisness | giant commercial farms, often owned by multinational corporations |
| liberation theology | movement within the catholic church that urged the church to end poverty |
| taliban | islamic fundamentalist faction that ruled afghanistan or nearly ten years until ousted by the U.S. in 2002 |
| proliferate | to multiply rapidly |
| afghanistan | small islamic country invaded by S.U. in 1979 later home to the radical islamist taliban and al Qaeda |
| al Qaeda | islamist terrorism organizaton led by Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden |
| terrorism | deliberate use of random violence especially against civilians, to acheive political goals |
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