Keywords T-U-V-W-Y

Question 1

Tariffs

Answer 1

Taxes on imported goods from other countries.

Question 2

Totalitarianism

Answer 2

When political regimes suppress political opposition and control all aspects of people’s lives.

Question 3

Vietminh

Answer 3

The League for the Independence of Vietnam, a nationalist and Communist dominated organisation, later known as the Vietcong.

Question 4

War bonds

Answer 4

Debt securities issued by a government to finance military operations and other expenditure in times of war.

Question 5

War indemnity

Answer 5

Compensation from a defeated nation to the victors following a war.

Question 6

War profiteering

Answer 6

Making excess profits during war time, for example by charging artificially high prices.

Question 7

Yellow Press

Answer 7

The term used to describe the sensationalist journalism of the 1890s. Journalists such as William Randolph and Joseph Pulitzer competed with each other to print stories about apparent Spanish atrocities in Cuba including the ill-treatment of female prisoners. It became known as the Yellow Press after a cartoon character called the Yellow Kid, from Pulitzer’s ‘New York World’.