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| Causes of WWI | Competing for colonies, countries, trade; the balance of power is changed; Germans kill Austrian king |
| Triple Alliance Powers | The alliance of Germany, Austria, and Hungry |
| Triple Entente | The alliance of Britain, France, Russia, and Serbia |
| Treaty of Versailles | A harsh treaty made by Britain for Germany at the end of WWI; among other things it greatly taxed Germany and restricted military power |
| Beer Hall Putsch | The incident when Hitler stood on a table in a bar and announced that he was going to take over the government |
| Mein Kampf | A biography that Hitler wrote while in prison that was full of hatred against Jews, homosexuals, gypsies etc; means "My struggle" |
| Appeasement | When other European countries did not try to stop Hitler from invading other countries |
| Neville Chamberlain | The English Prime Minister who supported appeasement |
| Anschluss | The peaceful annexation of Austria |
| Blitzkrieg | "Lightning War Fare;" going into a country and blasting with it everything they had; ex: Germany's invasion of Poland |
| Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact | A document Hitler signed promising that if Russia allowed Germany to invade Poland, Germany wouldn't invade Russia |
| Swastika | Symbol of the Nazi party |
| Nazi | Abbreviation for National Socialist German Worker's Party; a party lead by Hitler that had strong anti-Semitic beliefs |
| Fuhrer | "Leader" The name Hitler gave himself |
| Third Reich | "3rd Rule"; there were only two glorious periods in German history and Hitler claimed that his rule would be the third glorious ruling and that it would last for 1000 years |
| Final Solution | Hitler's idea to exterminate the Jews and create a master race |
| Genocide | A Mass killing of people from the same ethnic background |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass;" Nazi's set fire to Synagogues on Nov. 10th, 1938; first visual persecution of Jews |
| Ghetto | Where people who share a common background are forced to live together |
| Holocaust | The time period in which Hitler mercilessly killed over 6 million Jews and their supporters; in 1942, Hitler put all the Jews in concentration camps |
| Pogrom | A govt. supported mass persecution |
| Gestapo and SS | Hitler's secret police; the navy, and the army |
| Lebensraum | "Living room;" Hitler's plan to expand his empire |
| Mussolini | The fascist dictator of Italy who ruled in alliance with Hitler |
| Axis Powers | The alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| Allies | The alliance of Russia, France, and England |
| Scorched Earth Policy | When the Russians burned everything they owned to try and starve the German's out of Russia |
| Winston Churchill | Prime Minister of England during WWII after Chamberlain; was against appeasement |
| Franklin Roosevelt | American President during WWII; brought America out of the Great Depression |
| Joseph Stalin | : Harsh Russian Marxist-Communist dictator; successor of Lenin |
| The New Deal | The Program that F.D.R. put into effect to get people jobs |
| Cold War | 1945 - 1986; Russia and the United States compete for land and control of the world |
| Harry Truman | Roosevelt's vice President; ended war by dropping the atomic bomb on Japan |
| Hiroshima, Nagasaki | The two Japanese cities that were bombed by the U.S. |
| Truman Doctrine | An organization that gave financial aid to help Countries not result in communism |
| Marshall Plan | An organization that gave money to Europe that helped them recover and prevent communism |
| Containment | A system the US used to control communism |
| Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941 | Place and date that the Japanese bombed in the U.S. |
| 1914 - 1918 | Time of WWI |
| 1939 - 1945 | Time of WWII |
| Jim Crow Laws | Laws supporting segregation; example: poll tax |
| Poll Tax | A tax on voting to lower the amount of black voters |
| Ku Klux Klan | A racist group of white people who strongly hated black people |
| Black Cabinet | People consulted by FDR that were working for government about racial issues |
| NAACP | National association for advancement of colored people |
| Brown vs. Board of Education | Stopped schools from segregation |
| Martin Luther King | An African-American civil rights activist who fought for equality between whites and black by using passive resistance |
| Rosa Parks | An African-American woman who started the bus boycott by refusing to get up and give a white person her seat on the bus |
| Malcolm X | An African-American violent, militant civil rights leader |
| Czar Nicholas & Alexandra | The last czars of the Russian dynasty; were assassinated |
| Rasputin | Religious leader of Russia who basically controlled Russia during the rule of Nicholas and Alexandra |
| Lenin | "Father of Communism;" Russian dictator who started communism |
| Bolshevik/ Menshevik | Communists minority party/ communists majority party and believed in supporting the Czars |
