Unit 7 AP WORLD VOCAB

Congressional act that allowed the U.S. government to lend or lease war supplies to any nation vital to U.S. defense.

Lend - Lease Act

The original team name for Britain, France and Russia.

Triple Entente

Germany's military alliance with Japan was sealed with this pact.

Anti-Comintern Pact

A public, non-violent and conscientious breach of law undertaken with the aim of bringing about a change in laws or government policies

Civil Disobedience

An ideology that called for the unification of all lands in North Africa and the Middle East.

Pan-Arabism

Hitler's book where he declares his extreme anti-Semitic views.

Mein Kampf

The team during World War II that consisted of Germany, Japan and Italy.

Axis Powers

The strategy where a nation's domestic population, in addition to its military, was committed to winning the war.

Total War

In August 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union pledged not to attack one another after signing this pact.

Nonaggression Pact

Mexican political party that dominated politics from 1929 - 2000.

Institutional Revolutionary Party/PRI

A levy on a defeated country forcing it to pay some of the war costs of the winning countries.

Reparations

A formal meeting following the end of WWI where the allied powers come together to set peace terms.

Paris Peace Conference

The idea that people of the same ethnicity, language, culture and political ideals should be united and should have the right to form an independent nation state.

Self-Determination

This document stated that Palestine should become a permanent home for the Jews of Europe.

Balfour Declaration

The name given to the German government between the end of the Imperial period (1918) and the beginning of Nazi Germany (1933)

Weimar Republic

Laws designed to disenfranchise and discriminate against Jewish people in Germany.

Nuremberg Laws

Nickname given to the victorious leaders of WWI at the Paris Peace Conference.

The Big Four

Wilson's idea for an organization in which all nations of the world would convene to discuss conflicts openly to avoid tensions.

League of Nations

The day Germany surrendered to the Allies.

V-E Day

The day Japan surrendered to the Allies.

V-J Day

An organization representing the revolutionary working class of Russia (Leader - Lenin)

Bolsheviks

The first war in history where an East Asian country (Japan) beats a European power (Russia).

Russo - Japanese War

An effort to make all citizens of the multiethnic empire identify with Turkish culture.

Turkification

League of Nations established this system to rule the colonies and territories of the Central Powers.

Mandate System

Serbian terrorist group that was devoted to ending Austro-Hungarian presence in the Balkans.

Black Hand

Before the war, the team that was composed of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy was called _________.

Triple Alliance

The team during World War II that consisted of Great Britain, USA and the Soviet Union.

Allied Powers

An epidemic of an infectious disease that spreads throughout human population across a region.

Pandemic

A series of programs and projects implemented by FDR to help overcome the Great Depression.

New Deal

A peaceful protest in Russia where thousands of workers were killed by police. Workers were trying to advocate for higher wages, better working conditions and universal suffrage.

Bloody Sunday

Another name for World War I due to the immense amount of fighting.

Great War

When the war breaks out, what team is made of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria.

Central Powers

A belief in the superiority of one's nation over all others and the single-minded promotion of national interests.

Hypernationalism

President Wilson's proposal of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

Fourteen Points

A theory based notion that the sectors of the economy (employers, unions, state officials) are seen as separate organs of the same body.

Corporatism

A system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully and often violently suppressing opposition and criticism.

Fascism

Allied forces invaded the beaches of Normandy and liberate France from German control.

D-Day

The worst economic downturn (1929 - 1939) in the history of the industrialized world.

Great Depression

Japan's surprise air attack on a US naval base.

Pearl Harbor

Compulsory enlistment in the armed forces

Conscription

Means "Lightning War" and was a Nazi strategy to strike quickly, ruthlessly, unexpectedly with combined force of airplanes, infantry, and armor

Blitzkrieg

The official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945

Third Reich

The assassination of this individual is an immediate cause for WWI

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

A group of peasants who feely joined together to farm a certain portion of land.

Kolkhoz

This agreement allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland in return for a promise that Germany would not take over any more Czech territory.

Munich Agreement

Communication that is meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a particular subject.

Propaganda

November 11, 1918 became known as _________.

Armistice Day

Peace treaty that was signed in 1919 and officially ended World War I.

Treaty of Versailles

A war where peasants and working class people of Russia revolted against the government of Tsar Nicholas II.

Russian Civil War

The event where Germany attempts to send Mexico a notice offering an agreement where if Mexico keeps the USA out of the WWI then they would help them reclaim territory Mexico lost to the USA.

Zimmerman Telegram

Aggressive military preparedness (Celebrates war and the armed forces).

Militarism

The act of giving the opposing side in an argument or war an advantage that they have demanded, in order to prevent further disagreement

appeasement

Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group

Genocide

The Nazi campaign to use genocide to eliminate European Jews.

Holocaust

The first country to form a government based on the system known as Communism

Soviet Union