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Alliance | A close association of nations or other groups formed to advance common interests or causes |
Totalitarianism | An ideology where overall government goals are more important than individual rights |
Industrial Revolution | Time period that included the movement of people to cities, assembly lines, child labor, and modernization |
Nationalism | Extreme loyalty and devotion to a nation |
Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire during WWI |
Reparations | When defeated powers in a war must make payments of money, goods, and services to the winning powers |
Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII |
Revolution | A drastic change |
Empire | A group of lands under one ruler |
Great Depression | Time of hardship felt in the USA and around the world |
Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist dictator during WWII |
Armistice | A temporary halt in fighting; a truce |
Vasco Da Gama | Explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa and reached India in 1898 |
Fascism | A system of government marked by leadership under a dictator and suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship |
Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His assassination sparked the beginning of WWI |
Nazi Party | Fascist political movement in Germany led by Adolf Hitler |
Christopher Columbus | Explorer who sailed from Portugal and discovered the New World in 1492 |
Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Serbia, Russia, and the USA during WWI |
Natural resource | A product of the earth that people use to meet their needs |
Manufacturing | The process of making goods and items, often in factories |
Navy | Germany and Great Britain were competing to have the largest and strongest ___ before WWI |
Anti-Semitism | Anti-Jewish feelings |
Prince Henry the Navigator | Leader in exploration because he opened a school for navigation and invested in new sailing technology |
Colony | A territory or body of people living in a new territory but retaining ties with the parent state |
Treaty of Versailles | Formal treaty that ended WWI; it made Germany take full responsibility for the war |
Scramble for Africa | Time of claiming colonies across the African continent during the 19th century |
Poland | Country Germany invaded in 1939; the invasion started WWII |
Batolomeu Dias | Explorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope, the southern tip of Africa |
Holocaust | Time when millions of Jews were arrested, sent to concentration camps, and murdered along with millions of othe Europeans |
Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Third Reich |