Essential Vocab Flashcards
A-bomb
- U.S. first created A bomb through top secret Manhatten project
- U.S. bombed Japanese to end WW2 in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasakik
- ends on war on the pacific with US
- Quick solution to war that saved many lives
Alliance System WW1
WW1:
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary
Triple Entente: France, Britain, Russia
–>Central Powers: Germany and Austria Hungary
–>Allies: France, Britain, Italy, and Russia
Alliance System WW2
WW2
- Axis Powers: Italy, Germany, and Japan
- Allies: Britain, France, US, Russia
Anti semitisim
-Don’t like Jews
Ashram
-Gandhi creating a utopian society in India and South Africa
Axis
-Germany(nazis), Japan, and Italy
Bapu
“father” for Gandhi for Home rule
Berlin Conference
1884-1885 conference in which nations divided up Africa among themselves
Blitzkrieg
“lightning war” a form of warfare in which attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry attacks
Brown Shirts
-Nazis germans in WW2
Capitalism
-Economic system based on private ownership
Communism
Economic system in which all means of production are owned by people and private property does not exist
Concentration camps
-Jewish camps during WW2
Congress of Vienna
1814-1815 meeting where world leaders sought to create peace and security in Europe after Napoleon.
1) Containment
2) Legitimacy
3) Balance of Power
4) COncert of Europe
Continental system
-Napoleons military strategy to take over Europe using blockades
Czar
-Russian Kings
Der Fuhrer
-Hitlers name for “our leader”
Economic systems (3)
Traditional, market, command
Fascism
-Political movement that promotes an extreme an extreme form of nationalism , a denial of individual rights, dictaorship
Fascist Party
-Founded in 1919 by mussolini in Italy
Final Solution
-Hitlers plan to systemically kill entire jew population
Il Duce
-“our leader” for Mussolini
Imperialism (4)
- Colonization
- Protectrate
- Sphere of influence
- Economic Imperialism
Kaiser
-German parliament leader before Hitler
Mahatma
-“Great Soul” Gandhi
Man of Steel
-Stalin of Soviet Union name
Mercantilism
-Economic strategy by buying large quantities of gold and silver by selling more goods than bought
Nazis
-National Socialist German Workers party based on fascism, racial superiority, and totalitarianism
Pearl Harbor
-1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii causing US to enter WW2
Propaganda
-Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause
Red Shirts
-Communists
-USSR, China, North Korea
Chinese revolution
Reichstag
-German parliament
Self-determination
-Freedom of a people to choose their own gov’t
Soviet
one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after fall of czar Nicholas 11
Third Reich
-Third German empire est. by Hitler in 1930s
Treaty of Versailles
-Peace treaty signed by Germany after ww1
Utopia
Perfect society with equality
Nation (3 defined)
3 characteristics:
- Established/maintain borders (geography)
- Strong ‘central’ government
- Common culture/citizens
Totalitarian state
- Gov’t in charge of every aspects of public and private life
- nationalism strongly used through propaganda
- Hitler: 1930s Nazis(fascist)
- Mussolini: 1919 Fascist
- Stalin: 1924 communist
Axis of evil
Hitler, Japan, Mussolini
