Unit 4

Question 1

Appeasement

Answer 1

making political, material, or territorial concessions to an aggressive power to avoid conflict

Question 2

fascism

Answer 2

seeks total control over all major parts of society.

Question 3

collective security

Answer 3

system by which states have attempted to prevent or stop wars.

Question 4

communism

Answer 4

advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 5

dictator

Answer 5

a ruler with total power over a country, typically one who has obtained control by force.

Question 6

expansionism

Answer 6

he policy of territorial or economic expansion.

Question 7

genocide

Answer 7

he deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.

Question 8

holocaust

Answer 8

destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war.
“a nuclear holocaust”

Question 9

inflation

Answer 9

the rate of increase in prices over a given period of time

Question 10

isolationism

Answer 10

policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

Question 11

nationalism

Answer 11

identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Question 12

Nazism

Answer 12

the political principles of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party. Nazi

Question 13

scapegoat

Answer 13

a person who is blamed for the wrongdoings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

Question 14

ultra-nationalist

Answer 14

extreme nationalism is an extreme form of nationalism in which a country asserts forms of control over other nations (usually through violent coercion) to pursue its specific interests.