Flashcards: world History unit 7
All 35 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Triple Alliance | A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy in the years preceding World War I |
| Triple Entente | A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I. |
| Militarism | A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war. |
| Trench Warfare | A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield. |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany's military plan at the outbreak of World War I, according to which Germany troops would rapidly defeat France and then move east to attack Russia |
| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare | The use of submarines to sink - without warning - any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters. |
| Propaganda | Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause |
| Total War | A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting |
| Fourteen Points | A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
| Treaty of Versailles | The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I. |
| League of Nations | An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations. |
| Proletariat | In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia. |
| Bolsheviks | A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. |
| Provisional government | A temporary government. |
| Totalitarianism | Government control over every aspect of public and private life |
| Five-Year Plan | Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy. |
| Nuremberg Trials | A series of court proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany, after World War II, in which Nazi leaders were tried for aggression, violations of the rules of war, and crimes against humanity. |
| Command Economy | An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions. |
| Long March | A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces |
| Atlantic Charter | A declaration of principles issued in August 1914 by British prime minister Winston Churchill and U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, on which the Allied peace plan at the end of World War II was based. |
| Weimar Republic | The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933. |
| Axis Powers | In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936. |
| Fascism | A policy movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule. |
| Nazism | The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry. |
| Mein Kampf "My Struggle" | a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany |
| Lebensraum | "living space" - the additional territory that, according to Adolf Hitler, Germany needed because it was overcrowded. |
| Isolationism | A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries |
| Third Reich | The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. |
| Blitzkrieg | "lightning war" - a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces. |
| Nonaggression Pact | An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another |
| Genocide | The systematic killing of an entire people |
| Holocaust | A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II. |
| Kamikaze | During World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them. |
| Civil disobedience | A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust |
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