Chpt 25, 26, 28, 29 & 30 Vocb

Question 1

channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort.

Answer 1

Total War

Question 2

“the draft,” which required all young men to be ready for military or other service.

Answer 2

Conscription

Question 3

spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.

Answer 3

Propaganda

Question 4

horrible act committed against innocent people.

Answer 4

Atrocity

Question 5

right of people to choose their own form of government.

Answer 5

Self-determination

Question 6

agreement to end fighting in a war.

Answer 6

Armistice

Question 7

spread of a disease across a large area, country, continent, or the entire world.

Answer 7

Pandemic

Question 8

payment for war damage, or damage caused by imprisonment.

Answer 8

Reparations

Question 9

code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb during WWII.

Answer 9

Manhattan Project

Question 10

in the United States and Europe in the 1920s, a rebellious young woman.

Answer 10

Flappers

Question 11

system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all.

Answer 11

Collective Society

Question 12

after World War I, a territory administered by a Western power.

Answer 12

Mandate

Question 13

working class

Answer 13

Proletariate

Question 14

early Soviet secret police force.

Answer 14

Cheka

Question 15

reduction of armed forces and weapons.

Answer 15

Disarmament

Question 16

government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives.

Answer 16

Totalitarian State

Question 17

system in which government officials make all basic economic decisions.

Answer 17

Command Economy

Question 18

the U.S. strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries and preventing its further expansion.

Answer 18

Containment

Question 19

“openness” in Russian; a Soviet policy of greater freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s.

Answer 19

Glasnost

Question 20

the relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970s.

Answer 20

Détente

Question 21

deadlock in which neither side is able to defeat the other.

Answer 21

Stalemate