Upgrade to remove ads
Only $35.99/year

Unit 10: Our World at War Vocabulary

Terms in this set (13)

Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy
Five Years Plans
A political group practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin; originally called the Russian Bolshevik Party
Communist Party
An agreement in which nations promise not to attack one another
Nonaggression Pact
A political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule
Fascism
An agreement to stop fighting
Armistice
A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Communist Party members and other citizens who threatened his power
Great Purge
The making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war
Appeasement
The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry
Nazisim
An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations
League of Nations
Government control over every aspect of public and private life
Totalitarianism
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
MAIN
A 1938 meeting of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, and Germany, at which Britain and France agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia in return for Adolf Hitler's pledge to respect Czechoslovakia's new borders
Munich Conference
The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I
Treaty of Versailles
Students also viewed