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14 Points: Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WW1. Included rebuilding Europe and a controversial "League of Nations" to settle further world conflicts.
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Alliance: Agreements between people or countries to not fight or to help each other during war.
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Allied Powers: WW1 alliance- Britain, France, Russia, and other nations vs. the Central Powers
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Alphabet Soup Agencies: Government agencies created by the New Deal to help Americ recover from the Great Depression.
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Anti-semite: Someone who hates Jews.
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Appeasement: Giving into a demand for more power so they won't attack you.
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Armistice: An agreement to stop fighting.
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Arms Race: Try to beat someone else to have the biggest army and the most weapons.
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Autocrat: A ruler with unlimited power who uses it randomly.
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Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan non-aggression pact/military alliance. Non-aggression agreed November 1937, formal military "Pact of Steel" 1939. September 1940 became "Tripartite Powers"
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Black Tuesday: Symbolic term given to the stock market crash that occurred on Tuesday, October 29th, 1929
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Blackshirts: Members of Mussolini's fascist party. Mussolini's secret police responsible for keeping order and crushing opposition to the Fascist.
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Censor: Government or other person/group controls what people can and cannot say/write.
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Central Powers: In WW1, the nations of Germany and Austria-Hungary along with other nations, which fought on their side.
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Collective: A business controlled by the workers involved; large farms owned and controlled by the government created by putting smaller farms together. (Soviet Union-USSR-Stalin)
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Command Economy: Government makes all of the decisions for the business in the country.
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Communist: Person believes government should control businesses and operate for the benefit of all citizens- land, factories, railroads, businesses,etc. are all shared equally.
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Concentration Camp: Prison for people that the government doesn't like.
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Conscription: Forced to join the army.
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Corporate State: Workers are grouped by what job they hold/ trained for.
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Czar: A Russian emperor or king.
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Dawes Plan: The plan created by the Allied nations after WW1 to help Germany's economy recover during the 1920s.
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Depression: Businesses are slow or closing down (bankrupt) workers are losing their jobs/everyone has less money. Standard of Living gets worse.
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Dictator: Person who rules a country with no limits on their power. Single person with all power in a country.
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Fascism: A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism. Party started by Mussolini.
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Five-Year Plan: Stalin's plan to make more farm and factory goods to make money for the country.
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Genocide: Killing an entire ethnic group or race or religious group.
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Great Depression: Stock market crash 1929, caused banks to fail, people to lose savings, businesses to close, people lost jobs, everyone was poor, inflation; worldwide economic depression over 25% unemployment.
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Great Purge: Stalin's removal of political rivals and dissidents in the Soviet Union
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Holocaust: NAZIs killed 6 million Jews, 5 million other people in Europe during 1930s-1940s. The "Final Solution" developed by Hitler and Heinrich Himmer was to exterminate all the Jews from Europe.
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Hoovervilles: Shelters made of scrap metal, wood, and other materials that homeless families lived in during the Great Depression; named after President Hoover.
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Inflation: Value of money goes down, prices go up. A rapid increase in the cost of goods and services as wages and salaries stay the same.
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Isolationism: Your country's military does not want to get involved in other country's wars. Being cut off from others; alone.
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Kristallnacht: "Night of broken glass"; November 1938. German uprising against Jewish citizens and businesses in response to a political assassination in France of a German diplomat. Led by Hitler, Goebbels, and propaganda. 91 Jews were killed, 30,000 Jewish men were taken to concentration camps and tortured until over 1,000 had died.
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Kulaks: A former farm owner in the USSR forced to give up farms to make collectives.
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Lend-Lease Act: The US supplied the Allied forces in WW2 with materials necessary to fight the Axis Powers; i.e weapons, food, cloth, building materials. Marked USA willing to engage in foreign
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Migration: To go from one country, region, or place to another.
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Militarism: Always having an army ready from war. Praising and respecting the army within your country
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Nationalism: Love and support for your country; a belief that your country is the best.
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NAZI Party: Fascist party that supported Hitler's takeover of Germany,
anti-semite , believed in dictator, militarism and nationalism.
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Neutral: Not aligned with or helping either side in a war. (Switzerland)
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New Deal: The domestic program of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, esp. during the period from 1933 to 1941.
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Propaganda: Trying to persuade people in your country to buy or believe certain idea.
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Purge: Killing or sending away people that you don't like.
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Quotas: A set goal that workers in the factories are required to make.
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Refugee: Person running away from their country or government looking for safety.
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Reparations: Compensation in money, material, labor, etc., payable by a defeated country to another country or individual for loss suffered during or as a result of war; Germany was forced to pay 64 million dollars to France and Britain as a result of WW1.
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Socialist: A person that believes the government should control all businesses and operate for the benefit of all the citizens
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Soviet: Government councils formed to control Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II.
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Totalitarianism: The government has complete control over all aspects of public and private life.
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Treaty of Versailles: The peace talks that ended WW1. France, Britain, USA, and Italy attended. Russia, Germany, the Ottoman empire, and Austria-Hungary were not allowed.
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Trench: A ditch where people hide or take cover from enemy gunfire/weapons during war.
