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World History 2nd semester
2nd semester world history final
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History
10th Grade
06/07/2011

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Kamikaze
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Japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission.

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Conquistador
Definition
Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s
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Imperialism
Definition
domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region
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Proletariat
Definition
working class
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Boers
Definition
Dutch People who settled in Cape Town and eventually migrated inland.
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Colony
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territory settled and ruled by people from another land
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Nationalism
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a strong feeling of pride and devotion to one's country
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Homogenous Society
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society that has common culture and language
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Protectorate
Definition
country with its own government but under the control of an outside power
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Extraterritoriality
Definition
right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation.
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Peninsular
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members of the highest class of a Spanish Colony.
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Mestizos
Definition
person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who were Native American and European descent.
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Sphere of influence
Definition
area in which outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges.
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Muslim Brotherhood
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Egypt’s largest political group. Technically illegal because of constitutional ban on religious parties and political activity.
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Middle Passage
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the leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.
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Mulatto
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in Spain’s colonies in the Americas, person who was of African and European descent.
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Creole
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person in Spain’s colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers.
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Communism
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form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx; according to Marx class struggle was inevitable and would lead to the creation of a classless society in which all wealth and property would be owned by the community as a whole.
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Zaibatsu
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since the late 1800s, powerful banking and industrial families in Japan.
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Black Shirts
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any member of the militant combat squads of Italian Fascists set up under Benito Mussolini.
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Anschluss
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union of Austria and Germany 1 year before World War 2 in March of 1938.
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Sanctions
Definition
penalties
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Totalitarianism
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a form of absolutism in which the government sweeps away existing political institutions and exerts complete control over nearly every aspect of the society. In this system, a supreme leader often becomes the sole source of society’s rules.
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Appeasement
Definition
policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep the peace.
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