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| Total War | Where the state uses all of its resources men |
| Stock Market | A place where stocks and shares in companies are brought and sold. |
| Socialist | A follower of socialism or a supporter of a political party which supports more equality of wealth and government ownership of business. |
| Self-determination | The right of a nation or people to determine its own form of government. |
| Sanctions | An action |
| Mandates | Former German and Turkish colonies which were placed under the control of the League of Nations. Various allied countries ruled the ex-colonies as trust territories for the League. |
| Left | Those who support the ideas of left-wing political parties. Communism is an extreme left-wing movement. On economic matters the left support state ownership of wealth and are against free enterprise. |
| Lebensraum | The Nazis wanted to give the Germans lebensraum (living space) by expanding into eastern Europe especially in Poland and Russia. |
| Isolationism | The foreign policy of deliberately keeping out of the affairs of other countries. |
| Inflation | Rising prices caused by the government printing too much money. |
| Depression | A long period of business decline and rising unemployment. |
| Demilitarised zone | An area where all soldiers and arms are forbidden. |
| Conscription | Compulsory Military service. |
| Communist | A person who believes in communism that all wealth should be shared equally and property should belong to the state as a whole |
| Commission | Where a group or person is given a task to investigate a problem. |
| Right | Those who support the ideas of right-wing political parties. Fascism is an extreme right-wing movement. On economic matters the right strongly supports free enterprise and a persons right to accumulate wealth. |
| Reparations | Money paid as compensation for damages by a defeated nation after a war. |
| Power | A country which because of its military might can force its will on other weaker countries. |
| Plebiscite | Vote or referendum by region or country usually on a matter of great importance. |
| Non-aggression | A treaty of friendship in which countries promise not to fight eachother. |
| Neutral | Refusing to take sides in a dispute or war. |
| National Socialist | A Nazi |
| Nationalist | A patriot who is fiercely proud of his country. |
| Militarist | A supporter of militarism the belief that a countrys problems at home and abroad can be solved by armed force or war. |
| Frontier | The border between two countries. |
| Fascism | A political movement founded by Mussolini |
| Empire | A group of countries ruled by another country usually headed by an emperor. |
| Disarm | To take weapons away from |
| Diktat | A peace settlement imposed on the loser by a victorious nation following a war. |
| Comintern | Short for Communist International |
| Colony | A country or area ruled by a foreign nation. |
| Collective Security | A way of keeping world peace by getting nations to work together to prevent war. The League of Nations tried to keep peace through collective security. If one state attacked another |
| Civil War | A war between groups of people living in the same country. |
| Chancellor | The head of Government (or PM) in various European countries e.g. Germany and Austria. |
| Central Powers | The powers (Gr |
| Buffer-state | A small |
| Blockage | To shut off a place by warships or soldiers to stop people or goods from coming and going. |
| Big power | A state which compared to most other countries has a lot of military and economic muscle. |
| Annexation | A method governments use to add a new territory to their country. Sometimes force is used but this is not necessary. Annexations have caused many wars eg 36 It annexed Ethiopia. |
| Allies | Countries who are closely tied to each other who are often prepared to support each other against a common enemy. |
| Allies | In WWI these were the powers (Fr |
| Alliance | A formal agreement |
| Axis | The alliance of Gr |
| Armistice | An agreement to stop fighting. |
| Appeasement | The policy of giving into the demands of a hostile country in an attempt to prevent war. Britain and Fr followed a policy of appeasement in the 30s by giving in to the demands of Gr and It in an effort to avoid another European war. |
| Anti-Semitism | Hatred of the Jews. Hitler was anti-semitic because he persecuted and discriminated against Jews. |
| Anschluss | A political or economic union. Eg in 38 Hitler forced Aus to unite with Gr in a union or Anschluss. |
