HMWH Semester 2 vocab

Anschluss

Union of Austria and Germany

Appeasement

Giving into aggressive demands in order to maintain peace

Armistice

An agreement to stop fighting

Arms Race

Competition between nations to gain an advantage weapons

Blitzkrieg

A fast forceful style of fighting used by the Germans in WW2

Bolsheviks

A group of Marxists who seized power in Russia in 1917

Collectivization

Combining small individual farms to make larger, mechanized farms

Command Economy

A system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions

Concentration Camps

Detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine terrorize and is some cases kill civilians.

Containment

The United States strategy of limiting the spread of communism to the areas already under soviet control.

Detente

Efforts taken in the late 1960s and early 1970s to lower cold war tensions.

Domino Theory

The belief that the fall of one country to communism would cause neighboring countries to do so also.

Duma

The Russian assembly formed after the Russian Revolution of 1905

Entente

A nonbinding agreement between nations to follow common policies.

Extraterritoriality

The right of citizens to be tried in the courts of their native country rather than in the courts of the country that they are living in.

Fascism

A system of government that focuses on the good of the state rather than the good of individual citizens.

Final Solution

The Nazi Party's Plan for the Jewish population in Europe

Five year plan

Stalin's production goals for the soviet union

Genocide

The deliberate and systematic killing of people who belong to a particular racial, ethnic, or cultural group.

Glasnost

A willingness to openly discuss the Soviet Union's problems

Gulag

A system of Soviet labor camps

Holocaust

The killing of millions of jews and other groups by Nazis during WW2.

Hyperinflation

A rise in prices at an extremely rapid rate usually caused by a rapid increase in money supply making currency of little value.

Imperialism

The policy of one country's political economic or cultural domination over other lands and territories.

Iron Curtain

The dividing line between Communist countries and the western countries of Europe

Kaiser

Emperor of Germany

Kamikazes

Japanese Pilots who loaded their aircraft with bombs and crashed them into enemy ships

Kulturkampf

Bismarck's struggle to limit the influence of the Catholic Church in Germany.

Mandates

Territories given to

European powers to rule after WW1

NATO

A military alliance of the twelve western nations formed in 1949

Neutrality

Policy of supporting neither side in conflict

Nunemberg Laws

Eliminated citizenship and many civil and property rights for jews.

Perestroika

Restructuring of the Soviet Economic and Political structure.

Pogrom

Violent riot or a hate directed against a Jewish community.

Proletariat

Working Class

Propaganda

Information created by governments in order to influence public opinion.

Protectorate

Country with its own government but under the control of an outside power.

Realpolitik

The belief in practical goals instead of theory in political philosophy

Reich

German Empire

Reparation

payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment

Social Darwinism

An application of the principles of natural selection and survival of the fittest to the struggle between nations and races.

Soviet

Council of workers and soldiers set up by Russian revolutionaries in 1917.

Sphere of Influence

area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges

Total War

Channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort.

Totalitarianism

A form of government in which the person or party in charge has absolute control over all aspects of life.

Trench Warfare

A form of combat in which soldiers dug deep diches to seek protection from enemy fine and defend their positions.

Tzar

Emperor of Russia

U-Boats

German submarines

United Nations

In international organization formed in 1945 to maintain peace and encourage cooperation among nations.

War Saw Pact

A military alliance for the soviet dominated countries of Eastern Europe, established in 1955.