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18 Cards in this Set
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Imperialists |
People who support imperialism, the policy of one nation acquiring, controlling, or dominating another |
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Nationalists |
People who have a strong attachment to their culture or nation |
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Autonomy |
The power to govern oneself and make one's own decisions |
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Ethnocentric |
The belief that one's own culture is superior, and that other culture should be judged by its values |
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Head tax |
The fee that Chinese immigrants were required to pay after 1885 in order to enter Canada |
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Suffragist |
A person who advocates that women should have the right to vote |
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Enemy Alien |
A national living in a country that is at war with his/her homeland |
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Total war |
The mobilization of the entire resources of a nation for war |
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Propaganda |
Information, usually produced by governments, presented in such a way as to inspire and spread particular beliefs or opinions. |
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Conscription |
Forced enlistment in the armed forces of all fit men of certain ages |
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Conscientious Objectors |
A person who opposes war for religious or moral reasons |
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Military Voters Act |
An Act that allowed men and women serving overseas to vote |
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Wartime Elections Act |
An Act that gave the vote to Canadian women related to servicemen, but cancelled the vote for conscientious Objectors and immigrants from enemy countries |
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Armstice |
An agreement by warring parties to end hostilities |
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Paris peace conference |
A meeting in Paris in 1919 to discuss the terms of a peace agreement after the first world war |
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Treaty of Versailles |
One of the treaties that ended the first world war; it imposed strict sanctions on Germany |
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Collective security |
The military support & cooperation provided by member stated within an international organization to ensure that each will help each other in the event of aggression |
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Sanctions |
Penalties, such as restricting trade, applied to a group by a group of nations to try to force an offending nation to end aggression or an offensive policy |
