Unit 2 test Flashcards
foreign policy
government strategy, actions, decisions to deal with other countries ex.trade, alliances etc
domestic policy
how a government handles things inside its own country
ex. healthcare, education, taxes etc
short term affects of ww1
- human loss/injuries
-led to collapse of empires like ottoman, russian, german
Technology advanced, development of tanks, airplanes, chemical weapons.
long term affect of ww1
-caused great depression
-unresolved issues led to ww2 only 2 decades later
-territorial changes and reshaped europe and middle east
attrition
-slowly wekans opponents through pressure through continues pressure or conflict. Usually used in Ww1
nationalism
nationalism among major powers like britain france and germany, it created tensions between the nations and led to a complex web of alliances which led to ww1
imperialism definition
policy of extending a countries power and influence through military force
imperialism
see as the key cause of world war 1 because as countries like britain and france expanded their empires it resulted in increasing tensions in europeans countries
propaganda
ww1 & ww2 had lots of use of propogands to shape publics opinion
trench warfare
common type of fighting in ww1, soldiers dug holes on each side, area between is called no man’s land
pan slavism
before ww1 there was a push to unite slavic people in europe against the central powers, the assassination of archduke ferdinand escalated the conflict and many slavic nations joined serbia
holocaust
genocide carried out by nazi germany during ww2, resulting mass murder of 6m jews.
night of the long knives
hitler ordered a number of deaths during a purge to strengthen his authority and be feared by german military
night of the broken glass
jewish businesses/homes were broken in by nazi forces and valuable things were stolen
ultranationalism
extreme form of nationalism,could be aggressive and intolerant
hitler was like this as believed the aryan race was superior than any other