Unit 7 MKP and vocab

Question 1

Militarism

Answer 1

Desire of a government or people that a country should have a strong military and prepare to use it aggressively.

Question 2

Pan-Slavism

Answer 2

The principle or advocacy of the union of all Slavs into one political organization or alliance.

Question 3

Isolationism

Answer 3

Policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries.

Question 4

Total war

Answer 4

Devote all resources to the war effort.

Question 5

Armistice

Answer 5

Agreement to stop fighting

Question 6

Propoganda

Answer 6

Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent’s cause.

Question 7

Collective security

Answer 7

The cooperation of several countries to strengthen the security of each to prevent wars

Question 8

Self-determination

Answer 8

People determine the government without any other nation interfering

Question 9

Mandate

Answer 9

After WWI, a territory that was administered by a western power..in the former Ottoman Empire.

Question 10

Soviet

Answer 10

One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after Nicholas II abdicated

Question 11

Collectivization

Answer 11

The process of transferring ownership from individuals to the state or all the people collectively - like requiring farmers to work the land as a group rather than individual landowners.

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

An economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people. Private property doesn’t exist and all goods and services are shared equally.

Question 13

Command economy

Answer 13

An economic system in which the government makes all economic decisions.

Question 14

Fascism

Answer 14

Political movement that is an extreme form of nationalism..denial of individual rights..dictorial one party rule.

Question 15

Totalitarianism

Answer 15

Government control over every aspect of public and private life.

Question 16

Appeasement

Answer 16

Making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war.

Question 17

Blitzkrieg

Answer 17

“Lightening war” – a form of warfare in which surprise attacks with fast-moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry forces.

Question 18

Containment

Answer 18

The action or policies preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence..like controlling communism.

Question 19

Demilitarisation

Answer 19

Reduction in an country’s ability to wage war.

Question 20

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 20

President of United States during world war drafted 14 points

Question 21

Mustapha Kemal

Answer 21

Ataturk. Led the Turkish national movement in the Ottoman Empire and became the first president of Turkey.

Question 22

Joesph Stalin

Answer 22

WWII leader and early Cold War…Five Year plans…

Question 23

Sun Yat-sen

Answer 23

Guomingdang Party in China, participated in 1911 revolution against Qing Dynasty, served as the president of the Provisional Republic of China.

Question 24

Winston Churchwill

Answer 24

Gu who made the Iron Curtain at the beginning of the Cold War. British prime minister.

Question 25

Franklin Roosevelt

Answer 25

US president during the Great Depression and WOrld War II. New Deal program to help out.

Question 26

Hideki Tojo

Answer 26

Japanese politician who served as prime minister during World War II and was directly responsible for the attack on Pearl Harbor, at the end of the war he was put on trial for war crimes linked to the prisoner of war camps.

Question 27

Benito Mussolini

Answer 27

Key figure in the creation of fascism and became the leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy. Allied Italy with Nazi Germany.

Question 28

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 28

Led India to independence from Great Britain using non-violent civil disobedience.

Question 29

Pol pot

Answer 29

Cambodian revolutionary who became the leader of the Khmer Rouge. His attempts to forcibly create an agrarian socialist society became the Cambodian Genocide.

Question 30

Porfirio Diaz

Answer 30

Served seven terms of president of Mexico..basically a dictator and his regime was unpopular ..but did promote ending political turmoil and promoting economic development.

Question 31

Francisco Madero

Answer 31

Mexican revolutionary who served as the 33rd president of Mexico, A wealthy landowner who was an advocate for social justice and democracy..sparked the Mexican Revolution.

Question 32

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Answer 32

Last German emperor and king of Prussia. Usually considered an antagonist and responsible for WWI.

Question 33

Arthur Balfour

Answer 33

British conservative statesman who issued the “Balfour Declaration” in 1917 announcing support for the establish of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine which was then part of the Ottoman Empire.