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European History Test Review

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AllianceA close association of nations or other groups formed to advance common interests or causes
TotalitarianismAn ideology where overall government goals are more important than individual rights
Industrial RevolutionTime period that included the movement of people to cities, assembly lines, child labor, and modernization
NationalismExtreme loyalty and devotion to a nation
Central PowersGermany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire during WWI
ReparationsWhen defeated powers in a war must make payments of money, goods, and services to the winning powers
Axis PowersGermany, Italy, and Japan during WWII
RevolutionA drastic change
EmpireA group of lands under one ruler
Great DepressionTime of hardship felt in the USA and around the world
Benito MussoliniItalian fascist dictator during WWII
ArmisticeA temporary halt in fighting; a truce
Vasco Da GamaExplorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India in 1898
FascismA system of government marked by leadership under a dictator and suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship
Archduke Franz FerdinandHis assassination sparked the beginning of WWI
Nazi PartyFascist political movement in Germany led by Adolf Hitler
Christopher ColumbusExplorer who sailed from Portugal and discovered the New World in 1492
Allied PowersGreat Britain, France, Serbia, Russia, and the USA during WWI
Natural resourceA product of the earth that people use to meet their needs
ManufacturingThe process of making goods and items, often in factories
NavyGermany and Great Britain were competing to have the largest and strongest ___ before WWI
Anti-SemitismAnti-Jewish feelings
Prince Henry the NavigatorLeader in exploration because he opened a school for navigation and invested in new sailing technology
ColonyA territory or body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state
Treaty of VersaillesFormal treaty that ended WWI; it made Germany take full responsibility for the war
Scramble for AfricaTime of claiming colonies across the African continent during the 19th century
PolandCountry Germany invaded in 1939; the invasion started WWII
Batolomeu DiasExplorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa
HolocaustTime when millions of Jews were arrested, sent to concentration camps, and murdered along with millions of othe Europeans
Adolf HitlerLeader of the Third Reich


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