Unit 7 Vocab AP World

League of Nations

(1920) Organization which countries talk out their problems before going into conflict

Proto-UN therapy group after WWI

Anti-Semitism

Anti-Jewish hate

Anti-Jewish

Appeasement

Diplomatic strategy, countries let Nazi Germany take what they want without war.

Countries A lets country B do what they want, because scared of war.

Armistice

Agreememt to temporarily cease military operations (truce)

Ceasefire, truce

Balance of Power

State of international order where power is distributed among multiple states, no state is too dominant so promotes stability and no aggression

Order, near order, no aggression, power distribution

Militarism

Aggressive military preparedness

Invest and love military.

Corporatism

Theory based on notion that sectors of economy- employers, trade unions, and state officials seen as separate organs of the same body.

Govt. tells businesses what to do/make.

Bolshevik

Russian revolutionary socialist party by Vladmir Lenin

Communist party Russia later Soviet Union, Vladmir Lenin

Collectivization

Russia 5 year plan, farmland taken from private landowner (Kulak), redistributed to peasants to manage

Russia 5 year plan, redistribution of land to collectives to manage

Holocaust

Destruction or slaughter on mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.

Mass killing of people.

Eastern Bloc

E. European "satellite" countries with communist regimes controlled by Soviet Union

Group of E. European countries aligned militarily, politically, economically, and culturally with USSR

Facism

Far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology

Hyper-nationalist, far right, political.

Firebombing

Large scale attacks against industrial and politically important Japanese and German cities using incendiary devices.

Industrial and political important cities fired/bombed on.

Genocide

Destroying ethnic/religious/racial group

Systematic killing of ethnic/religious/racial group

Guomingtang

(1912) Political party China, Nationalist Party by Sun Yatsen, taken over by Chaing Kai-Shek

(1912) Nationalist party China Sun Yatsen -> Chiang Kai-Shek

Inflation

Increase in prices, $$ value less.

General increase in prices, money worth less.

Trench Warfare

Combat where opposing sides fight from long ditches in ground

Type of combat where opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other

Mandates

Authority granted by League of Nations to govern former German/Ottoman territories

"Babysitting" a territory of Germany/Ottoman until they can self-rule

New Deal

FDR's policies and program economic reforms to get US out of Great Depression.

Relief, Recovery, Reform economic-political change FDR get US out of Great Depression.

Propoganda

Communication meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a particular subject by spreading inaccurate or slanted information.

Things meant to influence feelings around a subject by spreading biased/untrue info.

Great Depression (1929-1941)

Start in US, global, economic downturn

Unemployment, hunger, homelessness global. Start US in stock market crash (Black Thursday)

Reparations

Compensation/amends given for an injury or wrong

Payment given to make amends/compensate.

Nazism

Facist, promoted idea of "Aryan supremacy/Master Race." Adolf Hitler created it.

National Socialist party led by Adolf Hitler

Third Reich

Period of Nazi rule in Germany (1933-1945), third German Republic/Empire

Word used to describe Nazi regime (1933-1945)

Totalitarianism

Govt. controls all aspects of society

Govt. has total control of society.

Total War

Strategy of a nation committing all resources to war effort.

All people affected by war, resources go to war. (rations, working, military, etc)

Archduke Franz Fernidad

Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, WWI start.

Heir to Austro-Hungarian throne, started WWI with death (assassination)

Tsar Nichalos II

Last Romanov/Russian emperor

Last Russian Tsar

Vladmir Illych Lenin

Communist, Bolshevik leader Russia, New Economic Plan

Russian communist leader of Russia

Josef Stalin

Communist leader Russia, 5-Year Plan

5 year Plan, Russia communist

Benito Mussolini

Italian fascist dictator, took over Ethiopia with aircraft, brutal force and violence

Italian fascist dictator, took over parts of Ethiopia, used violence and force.

Fransisco Franco

Spanish general, nationalist party dictator (1936-1939)

Spanish Civil War nationalist party general and dictator (1936-1939) fascist

Adolf Hitler

Nazi party leader, Germany, Holocaust, fascist, Nazism, Third Reich, master race promoter, dictator.

Austrian-born German politician and fascist dictator of Germany, Nazi Party.

Mao Zedong

Leader of Chinese Communist Party (CCP), did the Long March

CCP Leader, Long March

Chaing Kai-Shek

Leader of Guomingtang/Chinese Nationalist Party

Guomingtang/Nationalist leader China after Sun Yatsen

Hideki Tojo

Japanese Prime Minister (1941-1944), bombed Pearl Harbor

Japanese Prime Minister (1941-1944) WWII, bombed Pearl Harbor

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of US, got US out of depression with New Deal, WWII

New Deal, WWII president, served 4 terms.

General Douglass MacArthur

Allied Commander for Pacific Theater, created "Island Hopping" strategy, wanted to nuke Korea during Korean War

Allied Pacific Commander, Island Hopping, wanted to nuke Korea (1950-1953)

George Marshall

Army Chief of Staff WWII (1939-1945) built up and deployed largest army in history

Army Chief of Staff, deployed largest army.

Harry Truman

President WWII and Cold War after FDR, dropped bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima

President after FDR, dropped atomic bombs.