Essential Vocab

Question 1

A-bomb

Answer 1

• U.S. first created A bomb through top secret Manhatten project
• U.S. bombed Japanese to end WW2 in 1945 in Hiroshima and Nagasakik
• ends on war on the pacific with US
• Quick solution to war that saved many lives

Question 2

Alliance System WW1

Answer 2

WW1:
Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, and Austria Hungary
Triple Entente: France, Britain, Russia
–>Central Powers: Germany and Austria Hungary
–>Allies: France, Britain, Italy, and Russia

Question 3

Alliance System WW2

Answer 3

WW2

• Axis Powers: Italy, Germany, and Japan
• Allies: Britain, France, US, Russia

Question 4

Anti semitisim

Answer 4

-Don’t like Jews

Question 5

Ashram

Answer 5

-Gandhi creating a utopian society in India and South Africa

Question 6

Axis

Answer 6

-Germany(nazis), Japan, and Italy

Question 7

Bapu

Answer 7

“father” for Gandhi for Home rule

Question 8

Berlin Conference

Answer 8

1884-1885 conference in which nations divided up Africa among themselves

Question 9

Blitzkrieg

Answer 9

“lightning war” a form of warfare in which attacks with fast moving airplanes are followed by massive attacks with infantry attacks

Question 10

Brown Shirts

Answer 10

-Nazis germans in WW2

Question 11

Capitalism

Answer 11

-Economic system based on private ownership

Question 12

Communism

Answer 12

Economic system in which all means of production are owned by people and private property does not exist

Question 13

Concentration camps

Answer 13

-Jewish camps during WW2

Question 14

Congress of Vienna

Answer 14

1814-1815 meeting where world leaders sought to create peace and security in Europe after Napoleon.

1) Containment
2) Legitimacy
3) Balance of Power
4) COncert of Europe

Question 15

Continental system

Answer 15

-Napoleons military strategy to take over Europe using blockades

Question 16

Czar

Answer 16

-Russian Kings

Question 17

Der Fuhrer

Answer 17

-Hitlers name for “our leader”

Question 18

Economic systems (3)

Answer 18

Traditional, market, command

Question 19

Fascism

Answer 19

-Political movement that promotes an extreme an extreme form of nationalism , a denial of individual rights, dictaorship

Question 20

Fascist Party

Answer 20

-Founded in 1919 by mussolini in Italy

Question 21

Final Solution

Answer 21

-Hitlers plan to systemically kill entire jew population

Question 22

Il Duce

Answer 22

-“our leader” for Mussolini

Question 23

Imperialism (4)

Answer 23

1. Colonization
2. Protectrate
3. Sphere of influence
4. Economic Imperialism

Question 24

Kaiser

Answer 24

-German parliament leader before Hitler

Question 25

Mahatma

Answer 25

-"Great Soul" Gandhi

Question 26

Man of Steel

Answer 26

-Stalin of Soviet Union name

Question 27

Mercantilism

Answer 27

-Economic strategy by buying large quantities of gold and silver by selling more goods than bought

Question 28

Nazis

Answer 28

-National Socialist German Workers party based on fascism, racial superiority, and totalitarianism

Question 29

Pearl Harbor

Answer 29

-1941 Japanese attack on Hawaii causing US to enter WW2

Question 30

Propaganda

Answer 30

-Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause

Question 31

Red Shirts

Answer 31

-Communists -USSR, China, North Korea Chinese revolution

Question 32

Reichstag

Answer 32

-German parliament

Question 33

Self-determination

Answer 33

-Freedom of a people to choose their own gov't

Question 34

Soviet

Answer 34

one of the local representative councils formed in Russia after fall of czar Nicholas 11

Question 35

Third Reich

Answer 35

-Third German empire est. by Hitler in 1930s

Question 36

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 36

-Peace treaty signed by Germany after ww1

Question 37

Utopia

Answer 37

Perfect society with equality

Question 38

Nation (3 defined)

Answer 38

3 characteristics: 1. Established/maintain borders (geography) 2. Strong 'central' government 3. Common culture/citizens

Question 39

Totalitarian state

Answer 39

- Gov't in charge of every aspects of public and private life - nationalism strongly used through propaganda - Hitler: 1930s Nazis(fascist) - Mussolini: 1919 Fascist - Stalin: 1924 communist

Question 40

Axis of evil

Answer 40

Hitler, Japan, Mussolini