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Conscription

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Mandatory military service

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Crimes against humanity

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Acts that are deliberately committed as a widespread attack on a specific civilized population

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Dictatorship

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A gov where the leader has total power

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Dirty Thirties

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Severe drought and failure to produce dry land farming

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Ethnic cleansing

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Mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group from society. Leads to genoice

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Holocaust

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The systematic genocide of 6 million Jewish citizens in Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other east European countries

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Imperialism

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Policy of extending a country power and influence through military force

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Indoctrination

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Process of brainwashing someone for an entire group to fully accept the ideas and beliefs of the govnt

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League of Nations

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A collective security organization created after ww1 to maintain world peace

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Militarism

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Belief or desire of a govt or ppl that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. A cause of ww1 and ww2

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Military service act (1917)

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Canadian law that allows conscription of Canadian men

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Nazi-soviet non-aggression pact (1939)

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A secret agreement between butler and Josef Stalin’s (ISSR/Sovient union) that the sovient union would not attack once invaded Poland

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No mans land

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Unoccupied land or land under dispute between two trenches

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Propaganda

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Biased or misleading information information used to promote a political cause or view

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Reich

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Literal meaning = realm refers to German empires

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Roaring twenties

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A new modern age after ww1 when ppl were eagered to enjoy economic prosperity and new inventions

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Sanctions

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A [pentalu for disobeying a treaty or agreement

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Scapegoat

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A persons or groups blamed for the wrong doings

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Schlieffen plan

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The german war dtadegy yo invade French

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Scramble for Africa

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The invasion, occupation and colonization of Africa by European empires between 1882 and 1914

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The spark

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Set off war assasination if Franz

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Appeasement

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Political policy of conceding to agression war like Nations

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Autocracy

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System of government 1 person complete power

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Balkan powder keg

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Was Balkan’s in early part of ww1

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Big four

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Usa Britain Italy and France

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Charisma

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Charm

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Collective farm

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Farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise

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Collectivization

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forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms

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Communism

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Political theory ppl work and paid according to needs

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Fascism

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form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce,

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Foreign policy

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a government’s strategy in dealing with other nations.

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Genocide

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Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people in whole or in part.

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Great Depression

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a long and severe recession in an economy or market

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Hitler

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was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer (“Leader”) of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers

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Trench warfare

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type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.

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Triple alliance

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Germany Italy Austria

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Triple entente

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Britain France and Russia

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Unrestricted submarine warfare

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Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules

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War crimes

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an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.

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Wilson’s fourteen points

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statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

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Réparation

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Payment for was damages

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Demilitarization

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The reduction of armed forces

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Prejudice

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Opinion that is not based on reason or expirence

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Discrimination

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The unjust treatment of different categories of people based on gender, rac, ethnicity, or sexual orientation

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Stereotypes

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A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing

Vocab Unit 1 Topic C 20-1 Social Studies (4 decks)

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