World War 1 Flash Cards

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Provisional Goverment

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a temporary goverment, for the purpose of writing a constitution.

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Abdication

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the process of a monarch stepping down from a throne: sometimes voluntarly, sometimes under threat.

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totalitarianism

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goverment control over every aspect of public and private life.

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Communism

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socialist economy combined with totalitarianism

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Fascism

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a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, a denial of individual rights, and dictorial one-party rule.

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Nazi

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Hitlers Political party; National German Socialist Workers Party

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Ahimsa

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Gandhi's concept of non-violence

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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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Fourteen Points

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a series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for acheiving a lasting peace after world war 1

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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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Treaty of Versailles

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the peace treaty signed by Germany and the allied powers after world war 1

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Big Three

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Authors of the Treaty of Versailles; Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin

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League of Nations

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International Organization which was to give potential enemies a way to talk out their diffrences

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Central Powers

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World War 1, the nations of Germany and Austria Hungary, along with the other nations that fought on their side
(Bulgeria, Ottoman Empire)

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Allies

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In world War 1, The nations of Great Britain, France, and Russia, along with other nations that fought on their sides; also; the group of nations--including Great Britain, the Soviet Union, England, and the U.S.

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U.S.S.R.

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

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intelligentsia

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Russian Intellectuals

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Five-Year Plans

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plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the devolpment of the Soviet Union's Economy

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Collectivization

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Stalins Confiscation of privately owned farms

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Collective Security

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the concept of protection of countries by forming defensive Alliances