Humanities (Final- Misc)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Multinational Empires | an empire made up of many different countries such as the Ottoman Empire which stretched vastly over different continents |
| Imperialism | the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies. |
| Triple Entente | An alliance between Great Britain, France and Russia in the years before WWI. |
| Triple Alliance | Alliance between Germany, Italy, Austria Hungry |
| Russian Revolution | the coup d'etat by the Bolsheviks under Lenin in November 1917 that led to a period of civil war which ended in victory for the Bolsheviks in 1922 |
| Provisional Government | The government established in 1917 which replaced Nicholas II when he abdicated. The only mistake of this government was not getting Russia out of the brutal World War I. |
| Bolsheviks | Led by Vladimir Lenin it was the Russian communist party that took over the Russian goverment during WWI |
| Industrialization | Process of industrial development in which countries evolve economically, from producing basic, primary goods to using modern factories for mass-producing goods. At the highest levels of development, national economies are geared mainly toward the delivery of services and exchange of information. |
| Armistice | An agreement that ended World War I, which was signed between the Germans and the French |
| Treaty of Versailles | Created by the leaders victorious allies Nations: France, Britain, US, and signed by Germany to help stop WWI. The treaty 1)stripped Germany of all Army, Navy, Airforce. 2) Germany had to rapair war damages(33 billion) 3) Germany had to acknowledge guilt for causing WWI 4) Germany could not manufacture any weapons. |
| March on Rome | (1922) This was originally in order to force King Victor Emmanuel III to give Mussolini power in the government. In the end, however, the Fascists completely conquered Rome, including the Squadristi, and so the march became a show of power for Mussolini, who became Prime Minister shortly thereafter. |
| Reichtag | German federal parliament elected in 1871 by a universal male vote |
| Nuremburg Laws | excluded german jews from reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with germans |
| Enabling Act | enabled Hitler to get rid of the Reichstag parliament and pass laws without reference to parliament |
| Reichstag | Seated Germany's lower house of Parlimrent, it burned in 1933 and Hitler blamed it on the communist, this event led to Hitler becoming the absolute dictator in Germany. |
| Antisemitism | Systemic and/or individual discrimination, prejudice, or persecution against Jewish people. |
| first welfare state | Bolshevics set up the first... logic of industrialism: nations develop social welfare benefits to satisfy the social needs. -state takes care of people who arent needed in the labor market -social security helps peole that cant work |
| the five-year plans | Launched by Stalin and termed "revolution from above." The goal was to generate new attitudes, new loyalties, and a new socialist humanity. The agriculture plan was collectivization which showed Stalin's control but was unsuccessful in bettering the economy. In industry Stalin wanted a huge industrial increase. New jobs and new factories were created, it was very successful. |
| Appeasement | Satisfying the demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability. |
| pacifism | A belief that disputes should be settled by nonviolent means. |
| Axis Powers | in World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. |
| Allies | Group of nations, including the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, who opposed the Axis powers |
| holocaust | The Holocaust took place in Europe between 1993 and 1945. Six million Jews were systematically and brutally murdered by the Nazis and their collaberators. Miliions of non-Jews, including Roma and Sinti(Gypsies), Serbs, political dissidents, people with disabilities, homosexuals and Jehova's Witnesses, were also persecuted by the Nazis., a large-scale destruction, especially by fire; a vast slaughter; a burnt offering |
| genocide | deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group |
| Cold War | This period of time following World War II is where the United States and the Soviet Union emerged as superpowers and faced off in an arms race that lasted nearly 50 years. |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization; an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries |
| Warsaw Pact | A military alliance between the former Soviet Union and its satellite states, created in 1955, that established a unified military command and allowed the Soviet army to maintain large garrisons within the satellite states, ostensibly to defend them from outside attack. |
| Third World | Term applied to a group of "developing" or "underdeveloped" countries who professed nonalignment during the Cold War. |
| individualism | a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence |
| Prague Spring | a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during its domination by the Soviet Union, it continues its reform until the Soviet Union and members of the Warsaw Pact allies invaded the country to halt them. |
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