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militarism

glorification of the military, main cause of WW2

Mikhail Sholokhov

Soviet writer who won the Nobel Prize

reparations

payment for war damages

Stalin mainly used Propaganda for?

increase support for communism

Nicholas II

Russian czar who abdicated in 1917

Leon Blum

Head of the socialst French government in the mid-1930's

Alfred Nobel

Nobel peace prize, invented dynamite. "It is my hope that this prize will help bring peace in the world"

general strike

Strike by workers in many different industries at the same time

Why did Germany join the triple alliance?

To defend themselves against France

Franklin D. Roosevelt

American president who introduced the New Deal

What were the effects of militarism in Europe in the late 1800s?

Nations made political and miliary alliances

What was the urpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact?

End war forever

Mobolize

to prepare military forces for war

What were the effects of the great depression?

High unemployment and limits of immigration

Ultimatum

a final set of demands

Why was the Maginot line created in France?

Prevent another German invasion

Gavrilo Princep

"Death to the tyrant"

Concentration Camp

A detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state

Francis Ferdinand

Heir to the Austrian throne

Marie Curie

Polish-born scientist who experimented wih radioactivity

Kaiser William II

German leader who supported Austria's war with Serbia

Flapper

young woman during the 1920s who rejected traditional ways

Bertha von Suttner

Peace activist who wrote a bestselling antiwar novel

Stream of Consciousness

writing technique that relates to a character's thoughs and feelings as they occur

Prior to World War 1, who ruled Bosnia?

Austria Hungary

Virginia Woolf

British novelist who wrote using the stream of consciousness

Which weapon contributed the most to a stalemate on the Western Front during World War I?

The automatic machine gun

Albert EInstein

The German physicist who adnvaced the theory of relativity

Why was World War I more destructive than all the previous wars?

Modern weapons were more deadly

James Joyce

Irsh author who used the stream of consciousness

What was the Ottoman Empire's position during WW1?

Joined the central powers

Pablo Picasso

Spanish artist who helped create cubism

Why was it so difficult to gain an advantage over an enmey in trench warfare?

The machine gun made it nearly impossible for troops to advance

Frank Lloyd Wright

American architect who believed that the function of a building should determine its form

What helped turn World War 1 into a global war?

Submarine

The idea that space and time are not absolute is known as what?

Theory of relativity

Propaganda

Ideas that are spread in order to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

An artist who uses triangles, squares, and circles to represent people and objects would be called what?

Cubist

Edith Cavell

"I will continue to run this hospital despite the German Invasion

After World War 1, the works of many important writers expressed what?

Feelngs of hopelessness and loss

Atrocities

Used in propaganda

What type of inventions had the greates impact on women's lives after World War 1?

Labor-saving devices

Neutrality

For much of the war the United States was neutral

Benito Mussolini

Fascist head of Italy

Total War

channeling all resources into the war effort

WHy were the Italians attracted to Fascism in the 1920's?

It promised order in a time of uncertainty

What happened that allowed the Allies to achieve the breakthrough they were looking for in WW1?

The involvement of the United States

How would you describe Fascism?

It glorified blind loyalty to the state

What were the roles of women during WW1?

Kept nations economies going during the war

Why did many Italians support Fascism?

Promised a better life

What ended Russia's involvement in WW1?

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

What traits were considered the most valued in Fascist Italy?

Loyalty

Reparations

payment for war damages

Concentration Camp

A detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state

George Clemenceau

"Germnay will be punished so that it will never again threaten France", French representative ot the Paris Peace Conference who demanded that Germany be punished

Wh?at did Hitler control in Germany

Nazis controlled all aspects of German life

Woodrow Wilson

"The only lasting peace will be a peace without victory", Author of the 14 points

What helped Adolf Hitler gain power in Germany?

The Great Depression

Mandates

What Ottoman lands were divided into

What were Hitler's goals?

Persecution and elimination of jews

What was the condition of Europe in 1918

In ruins

Appeasement

giving in to the demands of an aggressor in order to keep the peace

Soviet

a council of workers and soldiers

Pacifism

oppresion to all war

Totalitarian State

A form of government in which a one-party dictatorship

Haile Selassie

Ethiopian king who appealed to the League of Nations for help

Gregory Rasputin

A "holy man" who had great influence over the czarina, Alexandra

Francisco Franco

Nationalist general who created a Fascist dictatorship in Spain

Lenin

Marxist leader of the Russian Revolution

Guernica

Town that was brutally attacked by Germany during the Spanish Civil War

Lenin believed that a socialist revolution could succeed in Russia if?

A small group of dedicated revolutionaires controlled the government

Which event was known as a dress rehearsal for World War II by demonstrating the destructive power of modern warfare?

The Spanish Civil War

Joseph Stalin

Ruthless Soviet leader who industrialized the Soviet Union

Blitzkrieg

lightning war

Command Economy

an economic system where the government makes all the decisions

Winston Churchill

Prime miniser who rallied Britain to fight against Nazi aggression

Collective

a large farm owned and operated by peasant as a group

Dunkirk

Beach on the English Channel where Allied troops were rescued from advancing Nazis

Kulak

a wealthy peasant

Pearl Harbor

Naval base in Hawaii that was attacked by Japan in 1941

Trotsky

Communist leader who competed with Stalin for power

Which city was a target of the Nazi blitz for two months in 1941?

London

"Operation Barbarossa" was Hitler's plan to conquer whom?

The Soviet Union

Lenin's New Economic Policy was designed to?

Rebuild the Soviet economy

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, resulted in what?

Brought the United States into the war

Stalin rose to power by?

Building a loyal following among Communist party members

Dwight Eisenhower

SUpreme allied commander in Europe

The main purpose of Stalin's five-year plan was to?

Turn the Soviet Union into a modern industrial power

Collaborator

One wo cooperates with an enemy force occupying a country

Which group had absolute control over the government under Lenin?

The communist party

Genocide

deliberate desturction of a group of people

What were the effects of Stalin's five-year plans?

Heavy industry expanded

What does "D-Day" refer to?

Allied invasion of nothern France

Socialist Realism

A style of art glorifying Soviet life

What does the term "Holocaust" refer to?

The massacre of more than six million Jews.

Osip Mandelstam

A Russian poet

Kamikaze

Japanese pilots

Anna Akhamtova

A great Russian woman poet

El Alamein

Sit of a battle that became a turning point in World War II