social unit 2 terms
Unit 1
1. National interest: What a country thinks is important for its security, economy, and overall well-being.
2. Peacekeepers: Soldiers or police sent by international organizations to maintain peace in conflict areas.
3. Peacemaking: Efforts to establish peace between conflicting parties, often involving negotiations and treaties.
4. Domestic policy: Decisions made by a government about issues within the country.
5. Foreign policy: A country's strategy in dealing with other nations.
6. Triple Alliance: A military alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy before World War I.
7. Triple Entente: An alliance between France, Russia, and the United Kingdom before World War I.
8. Treaty of Versailles: The peace treaty that ended World War I, placing heavy penalties on Germany.
9. Big Four: The main leaders from the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Italy who made major decisions at the end of World War I.
10. Appeasement: A policy of giving in to an aggressor's demands to avoid conflict, famously used by Britain towards Nazi Germany before World War II.
11. Ultranationalism: Extreme nationalism, often marked by a belief in the superiority of one's nation over others.
12. Propaganda: Information spread to influence public opinion or promote a particular cause.
13. Conscription crisis: A major conflict in a country over mandatory military service.
14. Adolf Hitler: The dictator of Nazi Germany who led the country during World War II and orchestrated the Holocaust.
15. Nazis: Members of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, led by Adolf Hitler.
16. Hirohito: Emperor of Japan during World War II.
17. Successor state: A new country that forms from a previous state or empire.
18. Self-determination: The right of people to choose their own form of government.
19. Tojo: Hideki Tojo, a Japanese general and prime minister during World War II.
20. Kristallnacht: "Night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jewish properties and synagogues in Germany in 1938.
21. League of Nations: An international organization created after World War I to maintain peace, which was later replaced by the United Nations.
22. Total war: A conflict where countries devote all their resources to the war effort.
23. Internment: The imprisonment or confinement of people, often during wartime.
24. War Measures Act: A Canadian law that gave the government special powers during wartime.
25. Great Depression: A severe global economic downturn in the 1930s.
26. Irredentism: A political movement that seeks to reclaim and reoccupy a "lost" territory considered part of the nation's historic homeland.
27. Genocide: The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation.
28. Crimes against humanity: Serious violations committed as part of a large-scale attack against civilians, such as murder, enslavement, and torture.
29. War crimes: Violations of the laws of war, including mistreatment of prisoners and targeting civilians.
30. Holocaust: The mass murder of six million Jews and others by the Nazis during World War II.
31. Ethnic cleansing: The forced removal of an ethnic or religious group from a particular area.
32. Lebensraum: "Living space," a Nazi policy aiming to expand German territory.
33. Weimar Republic: The democratic government of Germany between World War I and the rise of the Nazis.
34. Final Solution: The Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people.
35. Decolonization: The process by which colonies gained independence from colonial powers.