Unit 2

Question 1

Conscription

Answer 1

Mandatory military service

Question 2

Crimes against humanity

Answer 2

Acts that are deliberately committed as a widespread attack on a specific civilized population

Question 3

Dictatorship

Answer 3

A gov where the leader has total power

Question 4

Dirty Thirties

Answer 4

Severe drought and failure to produce dry land farming

Question 5

Ethnic cleansing

Answer 5

Mass expulsion or killing of members of an unwanted ethnic or religious group from society. Leads to genoice

Question 6

Holocaust

Answer 6

The systematic genocide of 6 million Jewish citizens in Poland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and other east European countries

Question 7

Imperialism

Answer 7

Policy of extending a country power and influence through military force

Question 8

Indoctrination

Answer 8

Process of brainwashing someone for an entire group to fully accept the ideas and beliefs of the govnt

Question 9

League of Nations

Answer 9

A collective security organization created after ww1 to maintain world peace

Question 10

Militarism

Answer 10

Belief or desire of a govt or ppl that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. A cause of ww1 and ww2

Question 11

Military service act (1917)

Answer 11

Canadian law that allows conscription of Canadian men

Question 12

Nazi-soviet non-aggression pact (1939)

Answer 12

A secret agreement between butler and Josef Stalin’s (ISSR/Sovient union) that the sovient union would not attack once invaded Poland

Question 13

No mans land

Answer 13

Unoccupied land or land under dispute between two trenches

Question 14

Propaganda

Answer 14

Biased or misleading information information used to promote a political cause or view

Question 15

Reich

Answer 15

Literal meaning = realm refers to German empires

Question 16

Roaring twenties

Answer 16

A new modern age after ww1 when ppl were eagered to enjoy economic prosperity and new inventions

Question 17

Sanctions

Answer 17

A [pentalu for disobeying a treaty or agreement

Question 18

Scapegoat

Answer 18

A persons or groups blamed for the wrong doings

Question 19

Schlieffen plan

Answer 19

The german war dtadegy yo invade French

Question 20

Scramble for Africa

Answer 20

The invasion, occupation and colonization of Africa by European empires between 1882 and 1914

Question 21

The spark

Answer 21

Set off war assasination if Franz

Question 22

Appeasement

Answer 22

Political policy of conceding to agression war like Nations

Question 23

Autocracy

Answer 23

System of government 1 person complete power

Question 24

Balkan powder keg

Answer 24

Was Balkan’s in early part of ww1

Question 25

Big four

Answer 25

Usa Britain Italy and France

Question 26

Charisma

Answer 26

Charm

Question 27

Collective farm

Answer 27

Farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise

Question 28

Collectivization

Answer 28

forced to give up their individual farms and join large collective farms

Question 29

Communism

Answer 29

Political theory ppl work and paid according to needs

Question 30

Fascism

Answer 30

form of radical authoritarian nationalism, characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and control of industry and commerce,

Question 31

Foreign policy

Answer 31

a government's strategy in dealing with other nations.

Question 32

Genocide

Answer 32

Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people in whole or in part.

Question 33

Great Depression

Answer 33

a long and severe recession in an economy or market

Question 34

Hitler

Answer 34

was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

Question 35

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 35

The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers

Question 36

Trench warfare

Answer 36

type of combat in which opposing troops fight from trenches facing each other.

Question 37

Triple alliance

Answer 37

Germany Italy Austria

Question 38

Triple entente

Answer 38

Britain France and Russia

Question 39

Unrestricted submarine warfare

Answer 39

Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarines sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules

Question 40

War crimes

Answer 40

an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war.

Question 41

Wilson’s fourteen points

Answer 41

statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

Question 42

Réparation

Answer 42

Payment for was damages

Question 43

Demilitarization

Answer 43

The reduction of armed forces

Question 44

Prejudice

Answer 44

Opinion that is not based on reason or expirence

Question 45

Discrimination

Answer 45

The unjust treatment of different categories of people based on gender, rac, ethnicity, or sexual orientation

Question 46

Stereotypes

Answer 46

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing