| A | B |
|---|
| propaganda | spread of idea to further a cause or damage an opposing cause |
| armistice | end to fighting in a war |
| reparation | payment for war damages |
| mandate | territory that was administered but not owned by members of the league of nations |
| general strike | mass walkout by unionized workers in all industries |
| passive resistance | nonviolent opposition and refusal to cooperate |
| collective security | group of nations acting together to preserve peace |
| genocide | systematic killing of a whole people or nation |
| nationalize | bring a part of the economy under government control |
| soviet | council of workers, soldiers, and intellectuals formed by Russian revolutionaries |
| collective farm | large government run farm, created in the SU |
| kulak | prosperous peasant in the US who opposed collectivization |
| totalitarian state | country in which the government is a single-party dictatorship that controls every aspect of citizens lives |
| cold war | state of tension and hostility among nations without armed conflict |
| denazification | removal of all traces of Nazism in germany after WW2 |
| containment | policy whereby the US tried to prevent the SU from expanding beyond its borders |
| welfare state | state in which the government assumes responsibility for people's social and economic well being |
| segregation | practice of separating people according to race |
| anschluss | union between germany and austria |
| appeasement | making concessions to an aggresor in order to preserve peace |
| pacifism | refusal to fight in a war |
| blitzkrieg | german for lightning war |
| holocaust | systematic murder of over 6 million jews by the nazis |
