GHSGT World History
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| Crusades |  military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims |
| Magna Carta | a document or piece of legislation that serves as a guarantee of basic rights; the royal charter of political rights given to rebellious English barons by King John in 1215 |
| Renaissance | time of great revival of art, literature and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition form the medieval to the modern world; rebirth |
| Reformation | the religious movement in the 16th century the goal of which was the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches |
| alliance | a close association of nations or other groups, formed to advance common interests or causes |
| militarism | a country's desire to maintain a strong military force and to be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests |
| fascism | a system of government that flourished in Europe from the 1920s to the end of World War II; dominated by a dictator who usually possesses a magnetic personality, wears a showy uniform and rallies followers by mass parades; appeals to strident nationalism and promotes suspicion or hatred of both foreigners and "impure" people within the nation |
| Nazi | a member of the National Socialist German Workers' party which in 1933, under Adolf Hitler, seized political control of the country, suppressing all opposition and establishing a dictatorship over all cultural, economic and political activities of the German people |
| blitzkrieg | a swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and moblie land forces |
| trench warfare | a type of armed combat in which the opposing troops fight from trenches that face each other; usually associated with World War I |
| guerilla | a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment; a member of a small group of fighters who make sudden attacks on an enemy |
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