History Final 50 Vocab

Mr landak class

Black Shirts

Fasist Volunteers in Italy in charge of “taking care” of political enemies (secret Police)

Black Tuesday

Day the stock market crashed in the U.S

Bolsheviks

Group of peple in Russia who wanted communism in Russia

Capitalism

Economic system in witch trade and industry are controlled privately

Communism

System in witch all means of pruduction are commonly owned rather than pravatly owned

Credit

Borrowing money to pay for items and promise to pay back that money

Duma

Group of the gov. that helped make decisions for nicholas the second

Third Reich

3rd German empire Hitler beloved it would last 1000 years (lasted less than 15)

Totalitarianism

A political system in witch the gov. holds total authority over the society and seeks to control everything

Weimar Republic

Name given to German democracy after WW1

Allied Powers

Great Britain, France and eventually United States=s and Soviet union

Appeasement

Stragetgy used by Britain and France to give in to hitler’s demands to avoid going to war

Axis Powers

Germany, Italy and Japan

Blitzkrieg

German war strategy known as lightning war, attack using planes tanks and soldiers with great speed and power

Manhattan Project

Reasesrch project that helped create the atomic bomb

Munich Conference

Last minute meeting between Italy, Germany, France and Great Britian to avoid war

Nazi Soviet Pact

Non aggression aggreement between Germany an USSR

Operation Barbarossa

German code name for the invasion of the Soviet union

Radar

Tech used to show incoming airplanes helped Great Britain in battle of Britain

Scorched Earth

Soviet stragety to burn and destroy everything as they retreated

Anti Semitism

Hostility, prejudice or extreme hate towards Jewish people

Aryan Race

Hitlers Idea of a perfect race pure German blood blond hair, blue eyes…

Concentration Camp

camps during the Holocaust where people were detained and confined

Extermination Camp

camps that were built with the specific purpose of mass killing Jews

Final Solution

the Nazi policy for exterminating Jewish people

Genocide

deliberate killing of a certain group with the intent of destroying their existence

Ghetto

poorly kept up part of a city where only Jewish people could live

Kristallnacht

also known as "Night of the Broken Glass", was an attack on Jews and Jewish property

Nuremberg Laws

anti-Jewish rules that made life very difficult and targeted Jews

Nuremberg Trials

trials against Nazi leaders where it was determined what their punishments would be

Containment

strategy to fight communism by "containing" it and not allowing it to spread

Deterrence

US and USSR tried to discourage an attack from the other by building up more weapons

Domino Theory

idea that if one country fell to communism, more countries would also fall around it

Great Leap Forward

five year plan in China that centered around catching up to the rest of the world

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization that contained democratic countries

Puppet Government

governments that "had power" but were controlled by the Soviet Union

Space Race

competition between US and USSR in the field of space exploration

38th Parallel

dividing line between North and South Korea

Truman Doctrine

US policy pledging to help any nation in the world that wanted to resist communism

Warsaw Pact

alliance that contained Soviet Union and Eastern European communist nations

Agent Orange

chemical poison that killed vegetation and trees

Bay of Pigs Invasion

secret plan to invade Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro

Berlin Wall

28 mile barrier between East and West Berlin

Cuban Missile Crisis

13 day period where both leaders were ready to use nuclear weapons at any moment

De-Stalinization

process of overturning policies created by Stalin

Glasnost

plan for greater openness in Soviet society which included free speech, press and secret ballots

Marshall Plan

US program that provided money to any European country that wanted to fight communism

Napalm

highly flammable gasoline that causes burns

Perestroika

plan for restructuring the Soviet economy and move away from government control

Proxy War

war started by a major power without getting directly involved