WWI AND WWII VOCAB

Question 1

Pan-Slavism

Answer 1

idea that called for all Slavs to support one another

Question 2

Dreadnoughts

Answer 2

A new class of battleship first introduced by the British

Had powerful guns and firing range twice of other ships

Question 3

Tripe alliance

Answer 3

A defensive alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary

Question 4

Triple entente

Answer 4

A defensive alliance between Russia, Great Britain, and France

Question 5

Conscription

Answer 5

Compulsory military service

Question 6

Schlieffen plan

Answer 6

Germany military plan for fighting a two front war against France and Russia

Question 7

War of attrition

Answer 7

Type of war designed to kill as many soldiers on other side as possible

Question 8

Total war

Answer 8

When a country or countries devote all of their resources and population to war

Question 9

Home front

Answer 9

Major part of total war effort by civilians

Recycling, rationing, morales and efficient farming

Question 10

TNT poisoning

Answer 10

Medical condition that many women working in munitions factories developed

Bright orange hair, yellow hands, nausea, fever

Question 11

Self determination

Answer 11

People with the same ethnic origins, language, and political ideals have the right to form their own independent countries

In Woodrow wilson’s 14 points

Question 12

Versailles treaty

Answer 12

Diplomatic agreement that formally ended the war between the allies and Germany

Primary guilt to Germany

Question 13

Mandate system

Answer 13

To divide German and ottoman territories outside of Europe

Allowed France and Great Britain to expand their colonial empires

Question 14

League of Nations

Answer 14

International organization that was created to keep world peace after WWI

Question 15

Collective security

Answer 15

A large number of countries are willing and able to band together to discourage aggression or other behaviors on the part of countries looking to acquire some type of advantage at the expense of a less powerful state

Question 16

Twenty one demands

Answer 16

Japanese list of demands given to China after WWI

Question 17

Gallipoli

Answer 17

Battle on the peninsula and prevented allies from bringing supplies to Russia through the straits

Question 18

Nicholas II

Answer 18

last Russian czar

Chose to back Serbia after the assassination of franz Ferdinand

Question 19

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 19

Marxist leader who founded the Bolshevik party and led communist revolution in Russia

Question 20

Treaty of Brest-litovsk

Answer 20

Agreement between communist Russia and Germany that ended total hostilities

Question 21

Lusitania

Answer 21

German u boat sunk this British ship that was carrying civilians, including the US

Question 22

Import substitution industrialization

Answer 22

Economic policy followed by many Latin American countries during the depression in which governments focused on developing their own industries to replace the income that exporting goods to Europe and the us previously provided

Question 23

Democratic socialism

Answer 23

Economic policies implemented in great British, France, Norway, and Sweden during the depression which established greater government control over the economy and a more equal distribution of wealth

Question 24

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 24

British economist who urged governments to be active in economy in order to maintain healthy growth and avoid recessions or depressions

Question 25

Axis

Answer 25

Countries that opposed the allies in wwii Germany, italy,Japan

Question 26

Fascism

Answer 26

Aggressive nationalism with a dictator developed by Mussolini

Question 27

Weimar Republic

Answer 27

Government that took over Germany after Kaiser Wilhelmina was forced to give up power after WWI Founded on democratic principles, became unpopular

Question 28

Nazi party

Answer 28

Political organization in Germany that established a fascist government led by hitler Extreme nationalism, racial superiority, anti-semitism, opposition to communism, criticism of Versailles treaty

Question 29

Nuremburg laws

Answer 29

Stripped German Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriage and sex between German Jews and other Germans

Question 30

Kristallnacht

Answer 30

Destruction of synagogues and stores owned by Jews, muffed if 100 jews by nazis

Question 31

Radical nationalism

Answer 31

Political movement job Japan hat supported aggressive view of nationalism, condemned parliamentary democracy, and praised rule of Japanese emperor

Question 32

Mukden incident

Answer 32

Japanese soldiers faked an attack on a Japanese railway to justify taking over a region Used this incident to expand control in northern China

Question 33

Lebenstraum

Answer 33

Hitlers term that called for Germany to have more territory

Question 34

Munich conference

Answer 34

Meeting where European politicians met to discuss impending German occupation, gave hitler what he wanted

Question 35

Appeasement

Answer 35

Showed hitler that most countries were afraid to stand up to him and no one wanted military confrontation

Question 36

Blitzkrieg

Answer 36

Germany's technique of suing tanks, planes, railroads, paratroopers, and planning to win rapid victories "Lightning war"

Question 37

Frandz Ferdinand

Answer 37

Archduke and heir to the throne of Austria Hungary His assassination by gavrilo princip led to the outbreak of WWI

Question 38

Rape of Nanking

Answer 38

Japanese forces raped more than 7000 women and killed 400,000 people

Question 39

Hiroshima

Answer 39

First atomic bomb dropped by US and killed 130,000 people

Question 40

Stalingrad

Answer 40

Russian city attacked by German troops, Russians stopped German advance in the USSR

Question 41

Island hopping

Answer 41

This strategy bypassed many islands held by the Japanese in the interest of eventually stacking Japan directly

Question 42

Kamikaze

Answer 42

Japanese pilots equipped with explosives

Question 43

Auschwitz

Answer 43

Largest of all nazi concentration camps

Question 44

Comfort houses

Answer 44

Houses of prostitution set up by Japanese government where women of conquered territories were require to have sex with 20-30 men a day

Question 45

Yalta

Answer 45

Resort that served as a setting for the second wartime conference of leaders of the Soviet Union, US, and Great Britain

Question 46

United Nations

Answer 46

International organization to maintain world peace through diplomatic negotiation and collective security

Question 47

World bank

Answer 47

A United Nations financial institution that was established to provide loans for recovery after WWII

Question 48

International Monetary Fund

Answer 48

International organization of 188 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, facilitate international trade, promote high employment, economic growth, reduce poverty

Question 49

The Marshall plan

Answer 49

Rebuild European economies through cooperation and capitalism program after WWII

Question 50

NATO

Answer 50

North Atlantic treaty organization served as a military counterweight to soviet forces in Europe An attack on one = an attack on all

Question 51

Containment

Answer 51

US foreign policy that opposed the spread of communist governments