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| Reliance on military strength to help govern a country |
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| Payments made to the losing country to the winners, to make up for being a bitch and blowin up theys shit |
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| A war that involves the complete mobilization of resources and people, affecting EVERYONE… basically a country is bettin theys whole balls to battle theys rivals |
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| No this doesn’t mean a sexual partner who doesn’t perform well… its when two opposing sides don’t feel like fighting |
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| Germany and Austria- Hungary made an alliance with Italy to stop Italy from taking sides with Russia... Central Powers |
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| This was made between Russia, France and Britain to counter the increasing threat from Germany... Allied Powers |
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| The good guys…. France, the British Empire, and the Russian Empire, formally joined by the Treaty of London, signed on September 5, 1914. Other Allies, linked by treaty to one or more of the Allied Powers, included Portugal, Japan, and Italy, but not the United States, even after its entry into the war in April 1917. |
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| The bad guys… coalition that was defeated by the Allied Powers. Its primary members were the German empire and Austria-Hungary, the "central" European states that were at war from August 1914 against France, Britain, and Russia. The Ottoman empire entered the war on the side of the Central Powers in October 1914, followed by Bulgaria in October 1915. |
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| The right to govern…. Either by a king or there was an instance where one country governed another on behalf of the League of Nations |
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| founded the USSR...a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903 and ultimately became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Soviet Union. |
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| the Russian council made up of the working class |
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| Leader of the communist (Bolshevik) party who overthrew the Russian Aristocracy and established a communist party, first leader of the USSR |
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| Led the provisional government in Russia until Lenin came in…. not a good leader |
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| A British economist who published General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. He said that the “depressions will end themselves with government assistance” theory is wrong. He also said that unemployment comes not from overproduction, but rather for a decline in demand. |
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| Glorifies the state instead of the person, needing a strong dictator |
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| Established the first European Fascist state in Italy… conducted an expansionist foreign policy…. Had an alliance with Germany and brought Italy into WW2. |
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| System where the society (usually government) owns and controls means of production |
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| A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members… has total control of economic and political life… with a one party system |
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| The leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin, created a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union and killed all opposition. |
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| New Economic System… a modified version of the old capitalist system adopted by Lenin in 1921 to replace war communism in Russia- peasants could sell their products, retail stores and small factories could be privately owned. However, banks and major business had to be owned by the government. |
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| Economic goals for five-year periods by Joseph Stalin, communism leader in Soviet Union in 1928. Its purpose was to transform Russia virtually overnight from an agricultural into an industrial country |
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| A seven-member committee that became the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party in Russia. It is like cabinet in the United States. |
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| Authoritarian leader of Spain. Under his leadership, Spanish military forces revolted against the democratic government in 1936; civil war began. After Civil War, he established a dictatorship that favored large landowners, businesspeople and the Catholic clergy. Because it favored traditional groups and did not try to control every aspect of people’s lives, his dictatorship is an example of a regime that was authoritarian rather than totalitarian. |
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| Leader of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (or Nazi). |
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| The Reichstag passed it in 1933. This law gave the government the power to ignore the constitution for four years while it issued laws to deal with the country’s problems |
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| Head of the Schutzstaffeln (“Guard Squadrons”) or known as SS. Under his direction, the SS came to control not only the secret police forces that he had set up, but also the regular police forces. |
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| New racial laws were announced by the Nazis in Nuremberg in September 1935. These laws excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens. Jews also required to wear yellow Stars of David and to carry identification cards saying they were Jewish. |
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| Hostility towards and discrimination against Jews. Anti-Semitic acts by the Nazi include Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht (attacking synagogues and destroy thousands of Jewish business), and Holocaust |
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| During the war, the Ottoman Turks had alienated the Allies with their policies toward minority subjects, esp. the Armenians. Armenians had been pressing the Ottoman government for its independence for years. In 1915, the government violently reacted to an Armenian uprising by killing Armenian men and expelling women and children from the empire. By September 1915, about 1 million Armenians were killed. |
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| First president of Turkey. His goals were to create modern country and to take Islamic religion out of the government. He wanted to transform Turkey into a secular state (a state that rejects religious influence on its policies). |
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| A Jewish nationalist movement which supported the re-establishment of a homeland for Jews in Palestine |
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| President of Kenya in 1964 to his death in 1978. He led his country to independence in 1963. Educated in Great Britain, he argued that British rule was destroying the traditional culture of the peoples of Africa. |
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| The unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries |
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| Leader in India’s independence movement. He called on Indians to protest British laws by using the technique of civil disobedience. |
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| Gandhi led Salt March, which was a campaign of non-violent protest against the British salt tax in colonial India which began with the Salt March to Dandi on March 12, 1930 |
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| Refusal to obey laws considered to be unjust |
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| A large financial and industrial corporation. In Japanese economy, various manufacturing process were concentrated within a single enterprise called zaibatsu |
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| Revolutionary leader of Vietnam. |
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| In 1934, Chiang’s troops surrounded the Communist base in Jiangxi; however, Mao’s army broke thorught the Nationalist lines and began the Long March. |
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| Nationalist vs. Communist. The war represented an ideological split between the Western-supported Nationalist and the Soviet-supported Communist. |
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| Created by Sun Yat-sen. Advocated Sun’s Three People’s Principles, which promoted nationalism, democracy and the right for people to pursue their own livelihoods. |
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| Leader of Chinese Nationalists after death of Sun Yat-sen in 1925. He founded a new Chinese republic at Nanjing in 1928. He worked to reunify China. He fled with his forces to Taiwan after his forces lost in a civil war. |
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| Leader of the revolutionary movement that overthrew the Qing dynasty and leader of the Nationalists. He worked with Communists. They formed an alliance to oppose the warlords and drive the imperialist powers out of China. |
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