Section 7 Vocab Flashcards
kamikaze
Japanese fighter pilots of World War II, trained to make suicide crashes into Allied ships
Ayatollah Khomeini
an Iranian religious and political leader of the twentieth century; he became virtual dictator of Iran in 1979
Nikita Khrushchev
Premier of the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who led a campaign, called De-Stalinization, to remove the influence of the late premier Joseph Stalin from Soviet society
Captain William Kidd
employed by the British government for some time to stop piracy, but he turned pirate himself and was executed in England
Klondike gold rush
in the 1890s a rush of people to the Klondike gold mining district in northwestern Canada after gold was discovered there
Korean War
a war in the early 1950s between the United Nations and Communist North Korea; began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea; troops were mostly from United States forces; in 1953 with neither side having a prospect of victory, a truce was signed
League of Nations
an international organization established after World War I; It was too weak, however, to prevent the great powers from going to war in 1939
Lenin
Russian revolutionary leader of the early twentieth century; founder of the modern Soviet state
David Lloyd George
a political leader of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; was the Prime Minister of Britain at the end of World War I
Long March
the communist leader Mao Zedong led his forces on a long march to safety in the northwest part of China
lost generation
young adults of Europe and America during World War I; they were called lost because many of them were disillusioned with the world; Ernest Hemingway
Louis XIV
a king of France known as the “Sun King” for his power and splendor; sun was his symbol of power
Louis XVI
the last king of France before the French Revolution; Louis and Marie Antoinette were beheaded for treason
Luftwaffe
the German Air Force in World War II
Lusitania
a British passenger ship sunk by a German submarine in 1915
