unit 7 terms

bloody sunday

when workers protested against tsar for better working conditions in January 1905

bolsheviks

organization in Russia to overthrow tsar

black hand

people in Serbia who secretly work against the Austrian empire

young turks

people who tried to form a new Islamic country (Turkey) -controlled by lenin

triple entente

countries that committed to work together because they viewed Germany as a rival (Britain, France, and Russia)

central powers

countries fighting with Germany in WWI (Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire)

zimmerman telegram

note from Germany to Mexico offering land if Mexico attacked America

gallipoli

battle in WWI resulting in a lost to allies on the coast of Turkey

league of nations

organization made up of many nations to talk out problems to avoid wars

self-determination

the concept of people having the right to form their own independent nation

weimar republic

new government in Germany (1918-1933)

keynesian economics

belief that the government can deficit spending

spanish civil war

war between democracy and fascism in the 1930’s

francisco franco

person who led the nationalists to victory in the spanish civil war

Guernica

town in Spain that was bombed by Italy

balfour declaration

agreement to make a country for Jews

Palestine

area in the middle east conctrolled by Britain

influenza epidemic

when the spanish flu killed 20 million people worldwide

may 4th movement

a protest in China of educated people wanting a nationalist government

mandate system

established by the league of nations allowing allied nations to rule former WWI countries

battle of the bulge

WWII battle and the last major effort by the Germans on December 1944

battle of stalingrad

battle between the German and Russians

holocaust

killing of european jews/other minorites

mao zedong

communist leader in China

chiang kai shek

part of the nationalists and is the enemy of mao zedong. renamed Formosa to Taiwan

long march

led by mao traveling 6,000 miles to gain followers

nuremberg laws

passed in 1935 in Germany identifying laws to target jews

kristallnacht

anti-jewish night in 1938 destroying stores/homes owned by jews

appeasement

Germany agreeing to stop attacking other nations as long as they get to keep the land they claimed already

manchukuo

areas in China the Japanese took/controlled

erwin rommel

German general nicknamed the “desert fox” who fights Americans in North Africa

jomo kenyatta

worked to make Kenya an independent country and the first president of Kenya

salt march

event in 1930 in India where Gandhi led to protest against the British salt tax

massacre at amritsar

event in India where a religious gathering was attacked by the British in 1919

rwanda

country in Africa and one of the worst genocide in history

benito mussolini

Italian dictator and Hitler’s role model

sun yat-sen

Chinese leader who works to establish a new government after the Qing dynasty fails

joseph stalin

leader of soviet union during WWII

five year plan

stalin’s plan to improve soviet union’s economy

fascism

political system that is extreme nationalism