UNIT 8: TWO WORLD WARS Vocab

Match these leaders with their countries. Match the items in the left column to the items in the right column. 1. Clemenceau 2. Orlando 3. Lloyd George 4. Wilson

1. France 2. Orlando 3. Britain 4. United States

Match these items. Match the items in the left column to the items in the right column. 1. Peace of Paris 2. Treaty of Versailles 3. Fourteen Points 4. League of Nations

1. a peace treaty between Allied and Central Powers following World War I 2. segment of the Peace of Paris dealing with Germany 3. Wilson's proposals for peace after World War I 4. organization for world peace

Conscription

A compulsory enrollment of men for military service; draft.

Czarina

A female monarch or emperor of Russia before 1917. Also spelled tsarina.

Soviet

A local council in the early political organization of the Russian Revolution. Soviets (councils) of representatives were elected from among factory workers, soldiers, and peasants, as well as other groups in Russian society.

Czar

A male monarch or emperor of Russia before 1917, especially one of the emperors who ruled Russia until the revolution of 1917. Russian for caesar, czar is also spelled tsar.

Bolshevik

A member of the left-wing majority group of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party that seized power in that country in November 1917. The Bolsheviks later became the Russian Communist Party.

Menshevik

A member of the liberal minority group of the Russian Social Democratic Party. The Mensheviks struggled against the Bolsheviks before and during the Russian Revolution.

Totalitarian

A one-party government maintained by political suppression usually combined with cultural and economic controls.

Fascism

A one-party system of government in which each class has its distinct place but the individual is subject to the state and control is maintained by military force, secret police, and governmental regimentation of industry and finance.

Manifesto

A public written declaration of beliefs and principles, policies, and objectives, especially one issued by a political movement or candidate. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in late 1847.

Anarchy

A state of society without government or laws.

Blitzkrieg

A swift, sudden attack by tanks, aircraft, and so forth.

Bourgeoisie

Affluent middle-class people. According to Marxist theory, it is the social class that owns most of the wealth and exploits the working class. From the French bourgeois.

Recession

An economic setback in commercial and industrial activity.

Nationalism

Devotion to one's nation and to its political, social, and cultural interests and traditions.

Kamikaze

In World War II, the suicidal Japanese tactic of ramming ships with a piloted airplane carrying explosives.

Reparations

Indemnities paid by defeated countries for acts of war

The Allied powers represented at the Paris peace talks after World War I was:

Italy, USA, France, England

Marxist

Related to the philosophy and teachings of Karl Marx.

The Paris peace talks determined the:

Reparations paid by Germany creation of the League of Nations size of Germany's military limit of Germany's colonies in Africa and elsewhere

Ratification

The act of giving approval or confirmation.

Reprisal

The application of force by one nation against another in retaliation for acts committed.

Imperialism

The development of forcing trade and exploration of raw materials of backward countries through political or military means.

Duma

The main legislative assembly or parliament in czarist Russia.

Poletariart

The poorest class of working people in society. According to Marxist theory, it is the social class of industrial workers who must earn their living by selling their labor.

Abdicate

To formally withdraw from a high office, especially the throne. To surrender power.

Armament

War equipment and supplies.

The Treaty of Versailles:

divided German colonies and territory