Unit 5 Vocabulary

Question 0

Nationalism

Answer 0

Belief that each nationality is entitled to its own government and national homeland

Question 1

World war 1

Answer 1

Assassination of archduke ferdinand set off a chain that involved most nations of Europe and later United States

Question 2

Alliance system

Answer 2

The triple alliance and triple entente sought to preserve the balance of power, but dragged their members into war

Question 3

League of nations

Answer 3

International organization proposed by wilson and created by the versailles treaty to prevent future wars

Question 4

Balkans

Answer 4

Region of southeastern Europe that provided the spark igniting world war 1

Question 5

Russian revolution

Answer 5

Czar nicholas ll is forced to abdicate the throen and is executed

Question 6

Totalitarianism

Answer 6

A government that controls all aspects of life

Question 7

Adolf hitler

Answer 7

Nazi party leader who established a totalitarian state in germany

Question 8

Great Depression

Answer 8

A devastating economic downturn that saw stock prices fail

Question 9

Fascim

Answer 9

A political system that developed in germany

Question 10

World war ll

Answer 10

The most destructive conflict in history in which an astimated 70 million were killed

Question 11

Archduke franz ferdinand

Answer 11

The heir to the austro-hungarian throne is assassinated while visiting sarajevo by gavrillo princip

Question 12

Imperialism

Answer 12

The political and economic control of one area or country by another

Question 13

United nations

Answer 13

International organization launched in 1945. Its purpose is to maintain world peace while encouraging cooperation among nations

Question 14

Benito mussolini

Answer 14

Leader who turned italy into fascist state by controlling the press

Question 15

Holocaust

Answer 15

The genocide of jews and other minorities during WWll by the nazis

Question 16

Black hand society

Answer 16

A secret society made up of slav nationalist that wanted to attain a greater serbia by breaking free from austin-hungary

Question 17

Genocide

Answer 17

An efford to murder an entire people or nationally

Question 18

Total war

Answer 18

Complete mobilization of nations resources

Question 19

Treaty of versailles

Answer 19

Treaty between allied powers and germany ending WWl

Question 20

Joseph stalin

Answer 20

Communist leader following lenin

Question 21

Nazism

Answer 21

German fascist ideology promoted by adolf hitler as leader or the national socialist german workers party

Question 22

D-day

Answer 22

June 1944, allied troops landed in normandy

Question 23

Trench warfare

Answer 23

Form of combat during WWl in which both sides, facing machine-gun fire, dug ditches to create fortified positions

Question 24

Bolshevik

Answer 24

Party of lenin that won the support of the people by promising "peace, bread, and land"