| A | B |
|---|
| nationalism | a strong loyalty to one's own country and culture |
| alliance | an agreement between countries that ties their interests together |
| Central Powers | Austria, Hungary, Germany and their allies were known as this: |
| Allied Powers | Serbia, Russia, France, Britain, and others were called this: |
| armistice | an agreement to stop fighting |
| League of Nations | an international council formed to to prevent future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | the treaty that blamed the Germans for the war, German leaders were forced to sign it |
| World War I | originally known as the "Great War", it's name changed to this when the nations of the world went to war again |
| Russian Revolution | revolutionary leaders overthrew Russia's leaders and formed a government around the ideas of Karl Marx |
| tsar | emperor, at the top of Russia's social pyramid |
| strike | a refusal to work in protest of unfair treatment |
| communism | a political and economic system in which all land and all businesses are controlled by the government |
| totalitarian | when a dictator, often representing a single political party, controls all aspects of people's lives |
| fascism | a government whose goals are felt to be more important than those of individual people |
| inflation | rising prices |
| depression | fewer goods are produced, prices drop, many people lose their jobs, and money is hard to get |
| propoganda | the spreading of certain ideas or attitudes that have been exaggerated or falsified to advance a particular cause |
| World War II | began in Europe on September 1, 1939 when Germany, with the help of the Soviet Union, attacked Poland |
| Axis | Japan, Germany, Italy and their other allies were known as this |
| Allies | Included Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United Sates, China, and others |
| concentration camp | places where people are imprisoned because of their heritage, religious beliefs, or political views |
| Holocaust | the deliberate killing of people just because they were Jewish |
| time zone | created by scientists in the 1800's to standardized timekeeping throughout the world |
| International Date LIne | an imaginary line in the Pacific Ocean, it marks the boundary between one day and the next |
| warlord | strong, local military leaders |
| Long March | the journey taken by 80,000 communists away from the Nationalist toops to safety in the north |
| commune | an organized community in which all members share work and resources |
| Cultural Revolution | a ten-year period started by Mao in which "destruction of all non-communist beliefs" was ordered |
| superpower | name given to the Soviet Union and the United States because of their strength |
| free enterprise | an economy based on private ownership of land and business |
| Cold War | tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States without the fighting of a full-scale war |
| United Nations | stronger than the League of Nations, it would work to prevent future conflicts |
| NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) | formed in 1949 by nations in western Europe and North America, the countries pledged to defend each other if attacked |
| Warsaw Pact | The agreement signed by the Soviet Union and the countries of Eastern Europe that was similar to NATO |
| Korean War | a conflict with weapons that took place in Asia (communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea) |
| nuclear arms race | the competition between the Americans and the Soviet Union to build weapons of mass destruction, it required nuclear energy |
