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- southern plan
- japanese strategy of attacking european colonies on island of japan
- rape of nanking
- infamous genocidal war crime committed by japanese military in Nanjing. started in 1937 and lasted a few weeks. japanese army raped, stole and killed prisoners of war and civilians
- coca cola
- contains a large amount of sugar. the sugar was harvested in cuba. it became problematic after the embargo because cuba took back their property from US (ex united fruit company)
- sierra maestra campaign
- after fidel castro returned to cuba from exile in mexico. he and a few survivors from failed attack on moncada barracks hid out here
- nanking decade
- communist and nationalist expanded past southern china to gain more land and power. nationalists eventually realized they didn't need comm's so they fought/killed them
- february revolution
- revolution in russian empire in 1917. the tsarist regime overthrown by the bolshevick rule under lenin
- militarism
- view that society should be governed by concepts of military force/nature. discipline is highest level.
- treaty of versailles
- signed in 1919 and brought the end to ww1
- reparations
- payments that germans had to pay to cover the cost/debt of the warr (over 300 billion dollars) so they started to print excessive amt of money.
- third reich
- "kingdom." (holy roman empire, divided german states, hitlers reign)
- comintern
- aka communist international/3rd international. an international communist organization founded in moscow. intended to fight by all means for creation of the international soviet republic as a transition stage to complete abolition of the state.
- manchuoko
- japanese puppet state in manchuria and inner mongolia run by imperial chinese. majority of people were chinese. abolished after WW2
- iron curtain
- an actual physical border than separates russia by former soviet bloc and the west (during the cold war). it prevented freedom of travel and commun. between eastern and western europe.
- bolshevicks
- majority faction of the russian social democratic party. renamed the communist party bc they got power in the revolution of 1917
- domino theory
- political event in one country will cause similiar event in neighboring countries. ex. the web of alliances made after ww2
- lysenkoism
- new form of agriculture made by Lysenko. switching farms over to this caused massive famine
- united fruit company
- trying to monopolize trade in central america by regulating all rights to the railroad and boston fruit company. they need help with exportation and land for growing bananas. guatemala gave them a 99 yr contracts to control of rr's and to the only atlantic port. america is a major corporation that traded these fruits that sold in US and europe
- eugenics
- scientific racism. more based on selective breeding. idea that by selective breeding they could produce a superior race. and get rid of those that didnt fit the qualities
- herero genocide
- (pre holocaust).. after war, africans (colonized by germans) were driven inito the african desert. some were brough back to work at concent. camps, many were killed.
- warlord era
- stationed in each reqion of china. they controlled basically all of their region (by military force)
- final solution
- nazi policy of exterminating european jews introduced by himmler. resulted in murder of millions of jews
- containment
- policy the US used during the red scare. government wanted to control communism so it wouldn't spread
- modernization
- concept in social sciences refers to process when a society goes through industrialization, urbanization and other social changes that completely transforms lives of individuals.
- CIA
- us federal agency who coordinated government intelligence activities formed because of red scare. undercover agents sent to other countries they thought comm. was forming
- banana wars
- us tried to secure banana markets by interventions in central and south america using troops to preserve the connection.
- MAD (mutually assured destruct)
- if US and russia were to use nuclear weapons on eachother
- red scare
- period in US when there was a suspicion of communism and fear of widespread infultration of communists in the US gvnt
- collectivization
- type of farming system where laborers were not compensated by wages, but a share in farms net productivity. ussr did this first, it was forced
- united nations
- internation organization of countries set up to promote international peace, security and cooperation. (1945)
- long march
- nationalists tried to use military force to conquer communists living space. communists traveled 8000 miles.
- cuban missile crisis
- international. closest to nuclear war at any time between US and USSR and CUBA during cold war. but jfk and soviet leader decided to call off nuclear war.
- red terror
- campaign of mass arrests, deportations, executions conducted by the bolshevicks gvt in early soviet russia
- japanese militarism
- ideology that military should dominate political and social life of nation. "strength of military equals strength of nation"
- totalitarianism
- relating to a system of gvt that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete obedience to the state.
- lebensraum
- "living space." hitler said germans need a place to thrive; could be obtained by force if necessary
- operation of pb success
- cia hired mercenaries to take down the head of guatemala. spread propoganda and bombed. he knew he couldnt fight back against uf so he stepped down
- 5 year plan
- a gvt plan for economic development over 5 yrs especially in former USSR. in china, used 5 yr plan to industrialize agricultural country