Chpt 25, 26, 28, 29 & 30 Vocb Flashcards
channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort.
Total War
“the draft,” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.
Conscription
spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.
Propaganda
horrible act committed against innocent people.
Atrocity
right of people to choose their own form of government.
Self-determination
agreement to end fighting in a war.
Armistice
spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world.
Pandemic
payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment.
Reparations
code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII.
Manhattan Project
in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman.
Flappers
system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all.
Collective Society
after World War I, a territory administered by a Western power.
Mandate
working class
Proletariate
early Soviet secret police force.
Cheka
reduction of armed forces and weapons.
Disarmament
government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives.
Totalitarian State
system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.
Command Economy
the U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion.
Containment
“openness” in Russian; a Soviet policy of greater freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s.
Glasnost
the relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970s.
Détente
deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.
Stalemate
