Unit #2 Key Concepts

Question 1

National Interest

Answer 1

The interests of the people of the nation.

Question 2

Peacekeepers

Answer 2

Armed forces who maintain peace by keeping enemies apart until a crisis can be solved through diplomacy and negotiation.

Question 3

Peacemaking

Answer 3

Allowing armed forces that were originally set to maintain peace in a region of conflict to use force for reasons other than self-defence.

Question 4

Domestic Policy

Answer 4

A plan of action that guides a governments decision about what to do within a country.

Question 5

Foreign Policy

Answer 5

A plan of action that guides a governments decision about it’s official relations with other countries.

Question 6

Triple Alliance

Answer 6

A secret diplomacy action between Germany, Austria and Italy. An alliance for military aid.

Question 7

Triple Entente

Answer 7

A secret diplomacy action between Britain, France, and Russia for military aid. An alliance.

Question 8

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 8

A treaty made after WWI that set conditions on Germany and imposed ‘war guilt’.

Question 9

Big Four

Answer 9

The four leaders during the Paris Peace Conference that was influencing the action.

• Woodrow Wilson (USA)
• George Clemenceau (France)
• Vittorio Orlando (Italy)
• David Lloyd George (Britain)

Question 10

Appeasement

Answer 10

Giving into demands

Question 11

Ultranationalism

Answer 11

An extreme form of nationalism that goes from caring about the nation to disturbing international peace.

Question 12

Propaganda

Answer 12

Information and ideas spread to achieve a specific goal.

Question 13

Conscription Crisis

Answer 13

In Canada, it cause a huge argument on weather or not Canada should force men into war or not. Became a big political point during an election.

Question 14

Adolf Hitler

Answer 14

Elected into Germany government after WWI. Remember vividly how powerful Germany once was and wanted to reach that point again.

Question 15

Nazis

Answer 15

A German Political Party that ruled Germany after WWI with Hitler as the leader.

Question 16

Hirohito

Answer 16

A Japanese emperor who wanted land from China so badly and didn’t get it from the League of Nations so he made it happen himself.

Question 17

Successor State

Answer 17

A country created from a previous state.

Question 18

Self-determination

Answer 18

The ability to country one’s affairs.

Question 19

Tojo

Answer 19

A Japanese Politician and general leading the attack on Peral Harbour.

Question 20

kristallnacht

Answer 20

AKA Night of Broken Glass

Nazis attack Jews property and people littering broken glass.

Question 21

League of Nations

Answer 21

Created after World War I. Meant to prevent future wars and keep COLLECTIVE SECURITY.

Question 22

Total War

Answer 22

A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded.

Question 23

Internment

Answer 23

Imprisonment of a large group of people without trial.

Question 24

War Measures Act

Answer 24

A federal law adopted by Parliament on 22 August 1914, after the outbreak of the First World War. It gave broad powers to the Canadian government to maintain security and order during war or insurrection.

Question 25

Great Depression

Answer 25

A worldwide economic crisis that started in the USA 1930’s and spread in varying degrees

Question 26

Irredentism

Answer 26

Misplacing a group of people into another nation when their roots belong to a different nation.

Question 27

Genocide

Answer 27

The killing of ethnicity.

Question 28

Crimes against Humanity

Answer 28

Widespread attacks on a civilian population

Question 29

War Crimes

Answer 29

Wilful killing, torture, or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering.

Question 30

Holocaust

Answer 30

An English term used to describe the Genocide of the Jews done by Hitler.

Question 31

Ethnic Cleansing

Answer 31

A term used to make more socially acceptable the murder or expulsion of an ethnic nation from a territory.

Question 32

lebensraum

Answer 32

The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.

Question 33

Weimer Republic

Answer 33

the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933 due to high reparations

Question 34

Final Solution

Answer 34

Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people

Question 35

Decolonization

Answer 35

The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence.