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Vocabulary of Semester II of Honors Modern World History
Anschluss
Union of Austria and Germany
Appeasement
Giving into aggressive demands in order to maintain peace
Armistice
An agreement to cease fighting
Arms Race
Competition between nations to gain an advantage in weapons
Blitzkrieg
A fast, forceful style of fighting used by the Germans in World War II
Bolsheviks
A group of Marxists who seized power in Russia in 1917
Collectivization
Combining small, individual farms to make larger, mechanized farms
Command Economy
system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions
Concentration Camps
detention sites created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in 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 Revolution of 1905
Entente
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 on the individual citizens
Final Solution
The Nazi Party's plan for the Jewish population of 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 World War II
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 World War I
NATO
A military alliance of twelve Western nations formed in 1949
Neutrality
policy of supporting neither side in a conflict
Nuremberg Laws
Eliminated citizenship and many civil and property rights for Jews
Perestroika
Restructuring of the Soviet economic and political structure
Pogrom
Violent riot or attack 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 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 priveleges
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 ditches to seek protection from enemy fire and defend their positions
Tsar
Emperor of Russia
U-Boats
German submarines
United Nations
an international organization formed in 1945 to maintain peace and encourage cooperation among nations
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance of the Soviet-dominated countries of Eastern Europe, established in 1955
