AP World History Modern Unit 7 Vocabulary

Bolsheviks

a russian working class organization

communists

are people who believed that workers should own the means of production and that collective ownership would lead to collective prosperity and a just society

Young Turks

a group of reformers, they advocated for a constitution like European and Turkification

Kemal Ataturk

original name was Mustafa Kemal who led the Turkish Nationalists to win against British and other forces, Was awarded the surname Ataturk, “father of the Turks" since wes the first president of the republic of Turkey

Black Hand

a nationalist organization devoted to ending Austro-Hungarian presence in Balkans

Triple Entente

an alliance between France and Britain with Russia, they all views Germany as a rival later known as the Allies

Triple Alliance

was the rival of the Allies it was composed of Germany, Austro-Hungarian, and Italy. It was later called the Central Power with the joining of Ottomans and Bulgaria

Central Powers

originally known as the Triple Alliance, its members were Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria

Self-determination

the idea that people of the same ethnicity, language, culture, and political ideas should be united and should have the right to form an independent nation-state

Zimmerman Telegram

pushed the U.S. to war, it was a document where the Germany government offered to help Mexico reclaim territory that they lost to the U.S. to war, if they allied with Germany in the war

Total War

a strategy in which combatant nations intensified the conflict in WW1 by concentrating all resources to the war, it meant that a nation’s domestic population including military was committed in the war

League of Nations

an organization in which all nation of the world would discuss conflict openally

Reparations

to repair something; Germany paying reparation of damages caused by the war

Weimer Republic

agreement to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, set the stage of Nazis

Great Depression

ended the tentative stability , economy crashed and inflation grew in the whole world thanks to WW1.

New Economic Plan (NEP)

an attempt to remedy Russian’s economy, reintroduced private trade, allowing farmers to sell their products on a small scale, it maintained strict political control

Politburo

Joseph Stalin took control of it as a dictator, its the Communist Party’s Central organization

Collectivized

Stalin did it with agriculture, a process in which farmland was taken from private owners and given to collectives to manage

Fascism

a political system it appealed to extreme nationalism, glorified the military and armed struggle, and blamed problems on ethnic minorities

Popular Front

a coalition of left-wing parties to lead the government

Hypernationalism

a belief in the superiority of one’’s nation over all others and the single-minded promotion of national interest

Mandate System

established by League of Nations to rule the colonies and territories of the Central Power

Balfour Declaration

stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe

Salt March

one of Gandhi’s first campaigns in which he led thousands of Indians to the Arabian Sea and picked up grains of salt, in defiance of Britain’s unjust edicted

Pakistan

a new state that included the heavily of Muslims in Western and Eastern part of South Asia

May Fourth Movement

symbolized China growing nationalism and demand for democracy it was a Anti-Japanese movement

Long March

a year-long, 6,000 mile long retreat in which Mao’s forces did

Nuremberg Laws

passed in 1935, forbade marriage between Jews and gentiles, ot stripped Jews of their citizenship, and unleashed a series of subsequent decrees that effectively pushed Jews to the margins of German Society

Axis Powers

alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan

Kristallandit

“Night of the Broken Glass” produced anti-Jewish riots that occured in responce to the assination of a German diplomat by a Jewish teenagers

Appeasement

a policy in which the British followed, giving in to Germany’s demands in hopes of keeping peace

Anschluss

a political union, that made Austria officially become part of the Third Reich

Munich Agreement

allowed Hitler to annex the Sudentenland in return for a promise that Germany would not take over any more of Czech territory

Blitzkrieg

also called lightning war, it was a strategy in which Hitler used to quickly subdue Poland

Lend-Lease Act

the U.S. gave up all pretensions of neutrality by leading war materials to Britain

Atlantic Charter

a policy forged by Britain and U.S. which set down basics goals for the post-war world

D-Day

June 6, 1944, when about 150,000 Allied forces under command of U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower launched an amphibious invasion from England

Armistice Day

November 11, 1918 in which Allied advances against Central Powers forced Germany to surrender

genocide

the attempted killing of a group, based on their race, religion, or ethnicity

Last Generation

used to describe American ex patriate writers living in Paris after the war later used todescribe broadly those suffering from the shock or the war

“Final Solution”

a plan in which a campaign led by the SS to kill all Jews in Europe

Holocaust

an act of genocide in which the Nazis killed the Jews