Key Vocabulary from Lecture Notes

Flashcards covering key vocabulary terms and their definitions from the lecture notes.

Nationalism

A feeling of intense loyalty to others who share one's language and culture or country.

Total War

A nation’s domestic population, in addition to its military, committed to winning a war.

Political Propaganda

Communication meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a particular subject by spreading inaccurate or biased information.

Five Year Plans (Soviet Union)

Short-term plans to transform the economy of the USSR using communist methods, including rapid industrialization and collectivization of agriculture.

New Deal

U.S. president Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s (FDR) response to the Great Depression, aimed at creating jobs and implementing policy changes on banking.

Totalitarianism

A form of government where the government controls all economic, military, and societal factors in a country.

Fascism

An ideology promoting the nation and/or race above the individual, suppressing all opposition, and a specific type of totalitarianism.

Propaganda

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a particular political cause or point of view.

Self-Determination

 the ability of a state to determine and manage its own government