Unit #2 Key Concepts Flashcards
National Interest
The interests of the people of the nation.
Peacekeepers
Armed forces who maintain peace by keeping enemies apart until a crisis can be solved through diplomacy and negotiation.
Peacemaking
Allowing armed forces that were originally set to maintain peace in a region of conflict to use force for reasons other than self-defence.
Domestic Policy
A plan of action that guides a governments decision about what to do within a country.
Foreign Policy
A plan of action that guides a governments decision about it’s official relations with other countries.
Triple Alliance
A secret diplomacy action between Germany, Austria and Italy. An alliance for military aid.
Triple Entente
A secret diplomacy action between Britain, France, and Russia for military aid. An alliance.
Treaty of Versailles
A treaty made after WWI that set conditions on Germany and imposed ‘war guilt’.
Big Four
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)
Appeasement
Giving into demands
Ultranationalism
An extreme form of nationalism that goes from caring about the nation to disturbing international peace.
Propaganda
Information and ideas spread to achieve a specific goal.
Conscription Crisis
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.
Adolf Hitler
Elected into Germany government after WWI. Remember vividly how powerful Germany once was and wanted to reach that point again.
Nazis
A German Political Party that ruled Germany after WWI with Hitler as the leader.
Hirohito
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.
Successor State
A country created from a previous state.
Self-determination
The ability to country one’s affairs.
Tojo
A Japanese Politician and general leading the attack on Peral Harbour.
kristallnacht
AKA Night of Broken Glass
Nazis attack Jews property and people littering broken glass.
League of Nations
Created after World War I. Meant to prevent future wars and keep COLLECTIVE SECURITY.
Total War
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.
Internment
Imprisonment of a large group of people without trial.
War Measures Act
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.
Great Depression
A worldwide economic crisis that started in the USA 1930’s and spread in varying degrees
Irredentism
Misplacing a group of people into another nation when their roots belong to a different nation.
Genocide
The killing of ethnicity.
Crimes against Humanity
Widespread attacks on a civilian population
War Crimes
Wilful killing, torture, or inhuman treatment; wilfully causing great suffering.
Holocaust
An English term used to describe the Genocide of the Jews done by Hitler.
Ethnic Cleansing
A term used to make more socially acceptable the murder or expulsion of an ethnic nation from a territory.
lebensraum
The territory that a state or nation believes is needed for its natural development, especially associated with Nazi Germany.
Weimer Republic
the republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933 due to high reparations
Final Solution
Hitler’s program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people
Decolonization
The collapse of colonial empires. Between 1947 and 1962, practically all former colonies in Asia and Africa gained independence.
