World Wars Bingo Sheet

militarism

glorification of armed strength

mobilize

to prepare military forces for war

propaganda

one-sided information

reparations

money paid to compensate for the cost of war

ultimatum

set of demands that if not met could lead to war

Franz Ferdinand

archduke whose murder sparked WWI

command economy

government makes all the economic decisions

Austria-Hungary

Nation that ruled many of the Slavic people on the Balkan Peninsula in the early 1900s

soviets

council of workers & soldiers set up by socialists following the March Revolution

totalitarian state

one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of the lives of its citizens

appeasement

giving into demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace

blitzkrieg

lighting war

collaborator

one person who cooperates with an enemy force

containment

limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control

genocide

deliberate destruction of a group of people

kamikaze

Japanese pilots who undertook suicide missions to attack American warships

pacifism

opposition to all war

Chamberlain

British statesman who practiced appeasement

Hitler

Leader of Germany in the 1930’s

Mussolini

Italian leader in the 1930’s

Roosevelt

person who proposed the New Deal

1914-1918

WWI years

1939-1945

WWII years

Poland

WWII started in Europe when Germany invaded this country