semester 2 terms for world history
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- Ultimatum
- Final set of demands
- Munich pact
- was an agreement regarding the Sudetenland Crisis
- Appeasement
- policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace
- Hirohito
- japanese emperor during WWII
- Battle of Somme
- attack was launched upon a 30 kilometre front, from north of the Somme river between Arras and Albert, and ran from 1 July until 18 November
- Central Powers
- alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria
- Lusitania
- submarine that was torpedoed by germany killing almost 1,200 passengers
- Rape of Nanking
- massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing
- Black Hand
- Serbian terrorist
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- treaty that ended russian participation
- Hitler-Stalin pact
- was an agreement officially entitled the Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
- Christmas truce
- several brief unofficial cessations of hostilities that occurred on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day between German and British or French troops in World War I
- league of nations
- was an international organization founded as a result of the Treaty of Versailles
- Triple Entente
- An entente (a nonbinding agreement to follow common policies)between France and Britain
- Trench warfare
- form of warfare where both combatants have fortified positions and fighting lines are static
- Nuremburg Laws
- laws approved by the nazi's, depriving jews of german citizenship and taking some rights away from them
- Treaty of Versailles
- a treaty forcing germany to assume full blame for causing the war
- Maginot line
- massive fortications to prevent a third invasion on france along it's border with germany
- paris peace conference
- negotiated the treaties ending World War I
- Sudetenland
- a region of western czchoslovakia
- Fourteen points
- name given to the proposals of President Woodrow Wilson designed to establish the basis for a just and lasting peace following the victory of the Allies in World War I.
- Blank check
- rely that Germany would support whatever action was necessary
- WWI weapons
- bolt-action rifle,Machine guns,chlorine gas,Zeppelin(blimp),Tanks, Planes, Torpedoes
- armistice
- agreement to end fighting
- Mata Hari
- a famous exotci dancer, was accused by the French of spying for the
- Allied Powers
- alliance between France, Russian empire, the British Empire, Italy, and United States
- stalin
- was General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee
- Allied Powers
- British Empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the United States of America
- Hitler
- dictator of germany
- Third reich
- the common English name for describing Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party
- Fascism
- any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communistwhose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
- Mussolini
- was an Italian who led the National Fascist Party and is credited with being one of key figures in the creation of Fascism
- Battle of verdun
- fought between France and Germany in 1916, is the greatest
- Holocaust
- the systematic genocide of about six million european jews by the nazis during WWII
- franz ferdinand
- His assassination, caused countries allied with Austria-Hungary and countries allied with Serbia , to declare war on each other, starting World War
- lost generation
- a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America
- main causes of war(WWI)
- assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, massing of armies and alliances
- Conscription
- "the draft", required all young men to be ready for military or other service
- Zimmerman telegram
- telagram intercepted by british,from arthur zimmermann to his ambassador in mexico, propsing germany would help mexixco to reconquer new mexico,texas,and arizona
- Triple alliance
- Alliance between Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary
- Schlieffen Plan
- Plan made by Alfred von Schlieffen, that was designed to avoid two -front war
- Axis powers
- Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan
- Totalitarianism
- government in which a oneparty dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens' lives