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great war
ww1
Germany’s policy of unrestricted submarine warfare
subs would sink without any warning, any ship found in the enemies waters
total war
A word used to describe how all people and resources were expected to be used for the war effort
rationing
Goods were on short supply so people could buy only small amounts of those items
propaganda
new and information put out by the government to influence thoughts and actions
Zimmerman note
A message from Germany asking Mexico to join the war and attack the US
central powers
Germany and Austria- Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
what brought ww1 to an end
treaty of Versailles
fourteen points
The plan for peace created by US president Woodrow Wilson
treaty of versailles
The main treaty that ended WW1 and was used to punish Germany
Joseph Stalin’s command economy
all economic decisions were made by workers and government officials
kulaks
strong resistance to religious persicution
goals of the five year plans
rapid industrial growth, stronger national offence, mondernization of the soviet economoy
great purge
campaign to eleminate traditional religious belifes
totalitarianism
government that takes control, centralized, state control over every aspect of public and private life
jiang jienshi
Nationalist leader who fought in the Civil War against communist forces
pogroms
Usually describe violence by Russians authorities against the Jewish people.
bolsheviks
A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia’s gov’t
totalitarian state
A government in which a one party dictatorship regulate every aspect of citizens lives
mohandis k. ghandi
Charles lindbergh
the first person to fly across the Atlantic
f. Scott Fitzgerald
He was a novelist and short story writer, the author of “The Great Gatsby
things that contributed to the weaknesses of the weimar republic
uncontrolable severeve inflation, lack of democratic tradition, and large number of political parties
new deal
a series of programs and policies of Relief, Recovery and Reform to combat the effects of the Great Depression.
during the Great Depression, war depts caused great suffering in what
germany
mein kamp
hitlers book that translates to my struggle
lebenstraum
Lebensraum translates to “living space.” It becomes a Nazi policy of conquest and expansion before the beginning of WW2.
nazism was the German form of what
fascism
who did the Soviet Union sign a nonaggression pact with in 1939
nazi germany
Francisco franco
Franco led the Fascists, fighting republican forces
German blitzkrieg
German term meaning “lightning war”
bataan death march
A march in which soldiers marched 55 miles to get to prison camps
Douglass macarther
Dwight d. eisenhower
a five-star general in the United States Army during World War II and served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe
d-day
a military term that referred to the start of the Battle of Normandy in France
what was the main target of kamikazes
ships
what did stalin want Churchill and Roosevelt to do in order to relieve German pressure on soviet armies
invade france
Bernard montgomery
French general that lead troops to victory in the battle of el alamein
explain why thousands of Japanese Americans were entered in relocation camps
in order to become “Americanized” under conditions that were not ideal
Nuremberg trails
nazi were tried at these trials
NATO
an alliance of countries from Europe and North America
containment
the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances
Ho Chi Minh
a communist leader who founded both the Indochinese Communist Party
bay of pigs
