A | B |
League of Nations | An international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations; suggested in Wilson's Fourteen Points, established to prevent future wars |
mandate system | splitting up of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after WWI, to be administered under League of Nations supervision |
reparations | payment for damages after a war |
protective tariffs | A tariff designed to protectors domestic producers of a good or service from the competition of foreign producers |
industrialization | the development of industries for the machine production of goods. |
collectivizism | system in which private farms were eliminated, instead, the government owned all the land while the peasants worked on it. |
Great Purge | The widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Joseph Stalin between 1936 and 1938. Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union. |
Anti-Semitism | policies, views, or actions that harm or discriminate against Jews |
militarism | a policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war |
entrenchment | to establish so firmly, change is very unlikely |