mod civ final

entente

a non binding agreement to follow common policies

militarism

the glorification of the military

Alsace and Lorraine

the border of Alsace Lorraine was lost in the Franco-Prussian War and the French yearned to recover it

ultimatum

a final set of demands

mobilize

preparing military forces for war

neutrality

a policy of supporting neither side in war

stalemate

a deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other

zeppelin

large gas filled balloons

U-boat

the nickname for submarines

convoy

groups of merchant ships protected by war ships

Dardanelles

a vital strait connecting the Black sea and the Mediterranean

T.E. Lawrence

The conal sent by the british government to support the arab revolt

total war

the channeling of a nation's entire resources into the war effort

conscription

universal military draft

contraband

military supplies and raw materials needed to make military supplies

Lusitania

the British liner that was torpedoed by a German submarine

propaganda

the spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause

atrocity

horrible acts committed against innocent people

Fourteen Points

a list of Wilson's terms for resolving future wars

self-determination

the right of people to choose their own form of government

armistice

an agreement to end fighting

pandemic

the deadly spread of influenza in 1918

reparations

payments for war damage

radicals

people who wanted to make extreme changes, dreamed of building a new social order from the chaos

collective security

a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all

mandate

territories administered by Western powers

proletariat

the growing class of factory and railroad workers, miners, and urban wage earners

soviet

councils of workers and soldiers

Cheka

the communist secret police

commissar

communist party officers assigned to the army to teach party principals and ensure party loyalty

haciendas

Large Spanish colonial estates usually owned by wealthy families but worked by many peasants

nationalization

government takeover of natural resources and industry

economic nationalism

emphasis on domestic control of the economy

cultural nationalism

pride in one's own culture

Good Neighbor Policy

the U.S. pledged to take a different approach to

dealing with Latin America;The U.S. withdrew

troops stationed in Haiti and Nicaragua

apartheid

system of segregation set up in South Africa

Pan-Africanism

A nationalist movement that emphasized the unity of Mricans and people of African descent worldwide.

negritude movement

a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values

Asia Minor

the Turkish peninsula between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea

Pan-Arabism

The nationalist movement that was built on the shared heritage of Arabs who lived in lands from the Arabian Peninsula to North Africa.

Balfour Declaration

Britain promised to establish a national homeland for the Jews.

Amritsar massacre

British soldiers killed close to 400 unarmed Indian men, women, and children, and wounded 1,100 more. People had gathered in the center of town to protest British occupation of their country, and to demand equality

ahimsa

ancient doctrine that preached nonviolence and reverence for all life

civil disobedience

the refusal to obey unjust laws

untouchables

members of the lowest caste, or class.

boycott

refuse to buy

Twenty-One Demands

a list of demands that sought to make China a Japanese protectorate

May Fourth Movement

movement in China to modernize and organize boycotts against Japanese goods

vanguard

elite leaders, of a communist revolution

Guomindang

Nationalist party, established a government in south China

Long March

March that Mao Zedong and his Communist Party underwent to avoid being captured and killed by China's Nationalist Party.

Hirohito

The emperor of Japan that reigned from 1926-1989

ultranationalist

extreme nationalists

Manchuria

A Chinese province region was rich in natural resources, and Japanese

businesses had already invested heavily there

Section 1

flapper

Prohibition

speakeasies

Harlem Renaissance

psychoanalysis

abstract

dada

surrealism

Section 2

Maginot Line

Kellogg-Briand Pact

disarmament

general strike

overproduction

finance

Federal Reserve

Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Deal

Section 3

Benito Mussolini

Black Shirts

March on Rome

totalitarian state

fascism

Section 4

command economy

collectives

kulaks

Gulag

socialist realism

russification

atheism

Comintem

Section 5

chancellor

Ruhr Valley

Third Reich

Gestapo

Nuremberg Laws

appeasement

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

pacifism

opposition to all war