| A | B |
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| Salons | Informal social gatherings where ideas were exchanged and discussed |
| Despot | one person who rules with absolute power, they are oppressive and cruel |
| Republic | a form of government where the people choose representatives to make decisions for them |
| dictatorship | one ruler with absolute power gained by force |
| Emperor | one ruler with absolute power who is worshipped as a god |
| plebiscite | ballot where people vote on a question |
| standardized | same for everyone |
| revolution | quick or sudden change |
| urbanization | a mass movemet of people from rural to urban areas to find work in factories |
| tenements | multi-story buildings with small overcrowded apartments |
| Pacifism | The belief that all matters should not be settled with violence; only peace |
| General cause | a cause of a war that takes place over time |
| Immediate Cause | a cause of war that occurs instantaneously, leading directly to war |
| Alliance | A formal agreement or treaty between two or more nations to cooperate for specific purposes |
| Entente | A nonbinding agreement to follow common policies, meaning that you can get out of it |
| Ultimatum | A final set of demands saying "do this or else" |
| Mobilize | To prepare a country's army for war |
| Duma | A legislative government in Russia |
| Stalemate | A condition where neither side can defeat the other. Occurred in the trenches of WWI |
| Atrocities | Propaganda containing wicked and inhuman acts, usually not true or completely exaggerated. Designed to get people on the side of something. |
| Rescind | to take back, cancel, or revoke an agreement |
| Abdicate | To step down from power. Russian tsar |
| Provisional | Temporary, possibility to be changed later |
| Null and Void | No longer valid, canceling whatever happend |
| Armistice | an agreement to end hostility between 2 countries, not ending fighting |
| Fasces | a bundle of rods with a projecting axe blade |
| Putsch | Violent attempt to overthrow the government |
| Nazism | authoritarian ultranationalist government with a racist ideology based on anti-Semitism and a belief in the superiority of “Aryan” Germans. |
| Appeasement | to placate so someone's demands. When we gave Germany Czech |
| blitzkrieg | a fast tactic the German’s used |
| Collective Security | the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each. |
| Conscription | requiring people to serve in the military or other services |
| Reparation | payments for war damage |
| Radicals | people who wanted to make extreme changes |
| Pandemic | the spread of disease across the continents |
