Honors World History Unit 7

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Alliances

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Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense.

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Militarism

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A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

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Trench Warfare

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A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield.

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Propaganda

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Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause.

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Total War

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A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.

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Armistice

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An agreement to stop fighting.

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Treaty of Versailles

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The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I.

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Mandates (mandate system)

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a nation governed by another nation on behalf of the League of Nations

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Reparations

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payment made to the victors by the vanquished(defeated) to cover the costs of a war.

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League of Nations

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An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among nations.

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Bolsheviks

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A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s government in November 1917.

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Provisional government

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A temporary government.

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Totalitarianism

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Government control over every aspect of public and private life.

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Axis Powers

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In World War II, the nations of Germany, Italy, and Japan, which had formed an alliance in 1936.

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Fascism

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A policy movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.

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Nazism

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The fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers’ party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority, and state control of industry.

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Isolationism

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A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

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Blitzkrieg

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“lighting war” – a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces.

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Genocide

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The systematic killing of an entire people.

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Civil disobedience

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A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust.

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Holocaust

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A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II.

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Kamikaze

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During World War II, Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink Allied ships by crashing bomb-filled planes into them.

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Mein Kampf “My Struggle”

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a book written by Adolf Hitler during his imprisonment in 1923-1924, in which he set forth his beliefs and his goals for Germany

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Five-Year Plan

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Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union’s economy.

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Long March

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A 6,000-mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi’s Nationalist forces