| A | B |
|---|
| maginot line | a stream of bunkers that line the border of Greece and Germany |
| popular front | left wing coalition government of France in the late 1930's |
| Leon Blum | French politican with the left wing |
| nationalization | under the control by the country |
| Ramsay McDonald | British labour politician; spoke out for the workers |
| coalition government | parliamentary government where the parties cooperate |
| Irish nationalists | demanded the right to rule themselves |
| Easter Rising | April 24, 1916 when Irish nationalists revolted against Britain |
| Sinn Fein | Irish nationalist party which claims the 1918 election for Irish seats in British parliament |
| Irish Republican Army | Sin Fein's military who battled British troops in a series of violent fighting |
| 1922 settlement | division of Ireland into two Catholic Southern Ireland - Irish free state and the northern part of island renamed |
| Benito Mussolini | an extreme nationalist that organized his own political party the Facist party |
| facism | governmental doctrine that relies on dictatorial rule and a totalitarian regime, in which the the state maintains rigid control of the people through force and censorship |
| totalitarian dictatorship | government in which person is control of all aspects of life |
| Black Shirts | fascists who conducted a violent campaign against their opponents |
| March on Rome | nationaist party came in power 1922 when they took down King Emanual III |
| Weimar Republic | German Federal Republic |
| inflation | A general increase in prices and fall in the purchasing value of money |
| Beer Hall Putsch | 1923 uprising of right wing and communist groups trying to overthrow the republic |
| Adolf Hitler | tolitarian dictator of Germany WWII - Aryan Race |
| Nazi Party | extremely nationalistic; anti Semitic; and anti communist party that rose to power in Germany in 1920's |
| Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" book written by Hitler while in prison; spirit of the Nazi party |
| Der Fuhrer | the leader=Hitler; took over as dictator |
| Gestapo | secret police Hitler gave them wide range of power and they worked against inferior races |
| Concentration Camps | the killing of millions of Jews and work camps |
| Third Reich | Empire Hitlers said it would last a 1,000 years |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | alliance between Musolinni and Hitler in Fall 1936 |
| 5 year plan (Stalin) | Lenin died in 1924 and in 1928 Joseph Stalin took power after a long struggle |
| collective farms | land pooled into large farms on which people work together as a group |
| command economy | economy in which the government controls all economic decisions |
| Supreme Soviet and Council of Ministers | xxxxxxx |
| Politburo | political bureau of Communist Party |
| purge | a large scale elimination of party members that were disloyal |
| Comintern | Communist International |
| Meiji Restoration | Group of Samurai overthrew Tokgawa Shogunate and returned the emporer to power |
| Diet | Japan's 2 house legislature |
| Sino-Japanese War | war between Japan and China over Korea in 1894 |
| Treaty of Shimonoseki | treaty forcing China to recognize Korea's independence |
| Russo-Japanese War | war between Japan and Russia over Manchuria that began with Japan's unannounced attack in 1904 |
| Treaty of Portsmouth | agreement that ended the Russo-Japanese War |
