WHAP VOCAB UNIT 7

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Bolsheviks

Bolsheviks

A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917

Secret Alliances

A treaty in which the contracting state parties have agreed to conceal the treaty's existence or substance from other states and the public

self-determination

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

stalemate

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

reparations

Payment for war damages

Treaty of Versailles

Treaty that ended World War I - most important part was the forced blame on Germany and other allies

Trench Warfare

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield

League of Nations

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

Great Depression

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

Collectivization (Soviet Union)

the organization of all of a country's production and industry into government ownership and management

New Deal

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Five-Year Plan

Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine

Fascism

a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

Totalitarian State

country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people

Mandate System

Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I; to be administered under League of Nations supervision.

Civil Disobedience

A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

Mohandas Gandhi

A philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change.

Mao Zedong

(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976

Zionism

an ideology that supports the development and protection of the State of Israel as a Jewish state

Munich Agreement

The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

The countries (Germany and Soviet Union) agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them.

Appeasement

the unsuccessful effort by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain to keep Adolph Hitler from starting World War II by letting Hitler annex nations in Eastern Europe

Blitzkrieg

an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.

Genocide

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.