Unit 13 vocab world studies

Question 1

Reduction of armed forces and weapons

Answer 1

disarmament

Question 2

a situation in which the supply of manufactured goods exceeds the demand

Answer 2

overproduction

Question 3

occurs when an investor buys an asset by borrowing the balance from a bank or broker

Answer 3

Margin Buying

Question 4

strike by workers in many different industries at the same time

Answer 4

General Strike

Question 5

the highest official of a monarch, prime minister, the chief minister of state in some European countries

Answer 5

Chancellor

Question 6

prison camps used under the rule of Hitler in Nazi Germany. Conditions were inhuman, and prisoners, mostly Jewish people, were generally starved or worked to death, or killed immediately.

Answer 6

Concentration camp

Question 7

nationalism in which the nation is defined by a shared culture and a common language, rather than on the concepts of common ancestry or race.

Answer 7

Cultural Nationalism

Question 8

Extreme sense of pride to your country. Extreme nationalism

Answer 8

Ultranationalist

Question 9

assembly or legislature

Answer 9

diet

Question 10

an emphasis on domestic control and protection of the economy

Answer 10

Economic Naturalization

Question 11

Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland.

Answer 11

Maginot Line

Question 12

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression

Answer 12

New Deal

Question 13

The Third German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, “Third Realm” or “Third Empire”, alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918).

Answer 13

third Reich

Question 14

German/ Nazi/ Hitler’s secret police

Answer 14

Gestapo

Question 15

(Night of the Broken Glass) November 9, 1938, when mobs throughout Germany destroyed Jewish property and terrorized Jews.

Answer 15

Kristallnacht

Question 16

Placed severe restrictions of Jews, prohibited from marrying non- Jews, attending schools or universities, holding government jobs, practicing law or medicine or publishing books.

Answer 16

Nureemburg Laws

Question 17

A private army under Mussolini who destroyed socialist newspapers, union halls, and Socialist party headquarters, eventually pushing Socialists out of the city governments of Northern Italy.

Answer 17

Black shirts

Question 18

The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under orders from Chiang Kai-shek.

Answer 18

Long March