Section Four Vocab Flashcards
Sir Francis Drake
An English sea captain; was the first Englishman to sail around the world; was a pirate
Dreyfus affair
a scandal in France involving a Jewish army officer, Alfred Dreyfus; was falsely convicted of betraying French military secrets and was sentenced to life imprisonment
Dunkirk
a remarkable retreat by the British army in World War II; Dunkirk was a town on the northern coast of France; during the Fall of France several hundred naval and civilian vessels took the troops back to England in shifts over three days
Adolf Eichman
a Nazi official who was responsible for the torture and killing of millions of Jews during the Holocaust
Elizabeth I
a queen of England in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who presided over the Renaissance in England
Elizabeth II
the present queen of Britain
Friedrich Engels
A German socialist of the nineteenth century who collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto
Enlightenment
an intellectual movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked by a celebration of 1. the powers of human reason, 2. a keen interest in science, 3. the promotion of religious tolerance, 4. and a desire to construct a government free of tyranny
Fascism
a system of government that flourished in Europe; ruled by one person like a dictator
name the three fascist countries in the 1920s and their leaders
- Germany under Hitler 2. Italy under Mussolini 3. and Spain under Franco were all fascist states
fifth column
people willing to cooperate with and aggressor against their own country; traitors or treason
Final Solution
a term applied by Nazis to the genocide of European Jews during World War II
fall of France
the conquest of France by Germany in World War II
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
an Austrian prince whose assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 set off World War I
Francisco Franco
a Spanish general and dictator of the twentieth century; a fascist who, after winning the Spanish Civil War, ruled Spain until his death
