Vocabulary

Question 1

Mobilization

Answer 1

The process of assembling troops and supplies and making them ready for war

Question 2

Propaganda

Answer 2

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause

Question 3

Trench warfare

Answer 3

Fighting from ditches protected by barbed wire, as in WW1

Question 4

War of attrition

Answer 4

A war based on wearing down the other side with constant attacks and heavy losses, such as WW1

Question 5

Reparations

Answer 5

A payment mad to the victor by the vanquished to cover the cost of war

Question 6

Armistice

Answer 6

A truce or an agreement to end fighting

Question 7

Proletariat

Answer 7

The class of wage earners, especially those who earn their living by manual labor or who are dependent for support on daily or casual employment

Question 8

Bolshevik

Answer 8

a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.

Question 9

Collective/collectivization

Answer 9

Large farms owned and operated by peasants as a group

Question 10

Command economy

Answer 10

A socialist economic system in which production and distribution of goods and services are controlled by the government and industry is mostly publicly owned.

Question 11

Atheism

Answer 11

Belief that there is no God

Question 12

Totalitarian state

Answer 12

Form of government in which a one-party dictatorship attempts to regulate every aspect of the lives of its citizens.

Question 13

Fascism

Answer 13

A political philosophy that glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for a strong central government led by a dictatorial leader

Question 14

Nazi

Answer 14

Shortened form of the German Nazional, or the National Socialist German Worker’s Party; a member of such party

Question 15

Concentration camps

Answer 15

A camp where prisoners of war, political prisoners, or members of minority groups are confined, typically under harsh conditions

Question 16

Aryan

Answer 16

A term used to identify people speaking Indo-European languages; Nazis misused the term, treating it as a racial designation and identifying the Aryans with the ancient Greeks and Romans and twentieth-century Germans and Scandinavians

Question 17

Genocide

Answer 17

The deliberate mass murder or physical extinction of a particular race, political, or cultural group

Question 18

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 18

A policy of killing a forcibly removing an ethnic group from its land; used by the Serbs against the Muslim minority in Bosnia

Question 19

Pan-Africanism

Answer 19

The unity of all black Africans, regardless of national boundaries

Question 20

Civil disobedience

Answer 20

Refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust

Question 21

Guerrilla tactics

Answer 21

The use of unexpected maneuvers like sabotage and subterfuge to fight an enemy

Question 22

Appeasement

Answer 22

Satisfying reasonable demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability

Question 23

Isolationism

Answer 23

A policy of national isolation by abstention from alliances and other international political and economic relations

Question 24

Collaborator

Answer 24

A person who assists the enemy

Question 25

Cold war

Answer 25

The period of political tension following WW2 and ending with the fall of communism in the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980s

Question 26

Blitzkrieg

Answer 26

German for “lightning war;” a swift and sudden military attack; used by the Germans during WW2

Question 27

Conscription

Answer 27

Military draft