Vocab - War And Revolution Flashcards
Total war
War that requires each country involved to mobilize its entire population in the effort to defeat the enemy
Treaty of Versailles
1919 treaty that officially ended World War l
Russian revolution
Massive Revolution that overthrew the Romanov dynasty in Russia and ended with the seizure of power by communists
Stalin
Leader of the Soviet Union from the late 1920s
Collectivization of agriculture
Communist policies that ended private ownership of land by incorporating peasants from small family farms into large-scale collective farms.
Great Depression
Worldwide economic contraction that began in 1929 with a stock market crash in the United States
Fascism
Political ideology that considered the conflict of nations to be the driving force of history, praised violence against enemies
Nazi party
German political party dedicated to extreme nationalism and the purification of the German state
Holocaust
Name used for the Nazi genocide of Jews and others undesirables in German society
Communism in Eastern Europe
Expansion of post–World War II communism imposed with Soviet pressure
Chinese revolution of 1949
marks the coming to power of the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
Chairman of China’s Communist Party and de facto ruler of China in 1949