AP Wrld- Vocab Unit 7

alliance

a formal pact or agreement between or among nations

Sy: agreement, compact, pact, treaty

antisemitism (also anti-Semitism)

prejudice, discrimination, or hostility toward Jews

Sy: prejudice, discrimination, hate

atrocity

a cruel or ruthless behavior

Sy: cruelty, horror, brutality

authoritarian

of, pertaining to, or advocating complete obedience or subjection to authority, especially political authority, without
concern for individual rights

Sy: repressive

blitzkrieg

a swift military attack from the air or ground

Sy: attack, assault

Bolsheviks

a member of the majority faction of the party that seized power in 1917 and formed the Communist party in the Soviet Union

Sy: COMMIES! (communist)

casualty

a member of the armed forces removed from active duty as a result of being killed, wounded, captured, or missing in action

Sy: victim, fatality

concentration camp

a prison camp in which large numbers of political prisoners, aliens, or those considered undesirable are confined and
sometimes executed

Sy: N/A

conscription

compulsory enrollment in military service

Sy; DRAFT! USA USA USA!

diplomacy

the practice or skill of conducting negotiations between nations or governments

Sy: statesmanship

disillusion

disappointment that something was not as one initially perceived it to be

Sy: dismay, disappoint

dual consciousness

the state of feeling as though you have two identities housed in one person or mind

Sy: N/A

eugenics

the false science, study of, or belief in the genetic improvement of the human race through control of breeding

Sy: N/A

fascism

a system of government characterized by strong, often dictatorial control of political and economic affairs, and often by warlike nationalism and brutal suppression of political protestors and ethnic minorities

Sy: Tyranny

genocide

the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, religious, or ethnic group

Sy: massacre

Great Depression

the decade of the 1930s in the United States and other countries, characterized by extreme economic hardship; the
Depression

Sy; N/A

Mandate

a legal status established by the League of Nations where some territories were temporarily controlled by another state

Sy; EDICT! Decree, directive

militarism

a policy that emphasizes military strength and preparedness

Sy: imperialism

mobilization

the act of assembling and preparing (troops or the like) for active military duty or service to a country; the act of
assembling, organizing, or adapting (industries, supplies, facilities, or the like) for immediate use or service in times of
war or states of emergency

Sy: Assembling, preparing

nuclear

of or having atomic or hydrogen bombs

Sy: atomic

propaganda

information or opinions that are made public to promote or attack a movement, cause, or person

Sy: advertisement, disinformation

total war

a global war in which all warring nations mobilize for the war effort including soldier and civilian populations, who are
both participants and targets; usually defined as meeting four criteria: mobilization, blurring of lines between soldier and
civilian, total control of society, and rejection of a compromise peace
Sy: N/A

totalitarian

designating a system of government in which power and authority are highly centralized and intrusive into the lives of
private citizens, and in which neither opposing parties nor individual differences in opinion are allowed

Sy: authoritarian, dictatorial, tyrannical

treaty

a formal agreement between two or more countries

Sy: truce, alliance, negotiation

tyranny

the oppressive or abusive exercise of power, of the government or authority that uses power in this way; unnecessary harshness; cruelty

Sy: oppression, repression