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Unit 10 Vocabulary
Chapters 28-30
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History
10th Grade
05/25/2011

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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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THe use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters.
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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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Rationing
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The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by the governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply.
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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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Armistice
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An agreement to stop fighting.
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Fourteen Points
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A serires of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I.
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Self-determination
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The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live.
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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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League of Nations
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An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among the nations.
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Proletariat
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In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia.
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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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Soviet
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One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II.
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Communist Party
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A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin, originally the Russian Bolshevik Party.
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Totalitarianism
Definition
Government control over every aspect of public and private life.
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Great Purge
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A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930's in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Commmunist Party Members and other citizens who threatened his power.
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Command Economy
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An economic system in which the government makes all the economic decisions.
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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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Collective Farm
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A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms.
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Kuomintang
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The Chinese Nationalist party, formed in 1912.
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May Fourth Movement
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A national Protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference.
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Long March
Definition
A 6,000 mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces.
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Rowlatt Acts
Definition
Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trial for as long as two years.
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Amritsar Massacre
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Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts.
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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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Salt March
Definition
A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater.
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