WHAP VOCAB UNIT 7

A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917

A treaty in which the contracting state parties have agreed to conceal the treaty's existence or substance from other states and the public

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible

Payment for war damages

Treaty that ended World War I - most important part was the forced blame on Germany and other allies

A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield

an international organization formed in 1920 to promote cooperation and peace among nations

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

the organization of all of a country's production and industry into government ownership and management

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Stalin's economic policy to rebuild the Soviet economy after WWI. tried to improve heavy industry and improve farm output, but resulted in famine

a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

country where a single party controls the government and every aspect of the lives of the people

Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I; to be administered under League of Nations supervision.

A form of political participation that reflects a conscious decision to break a law believed to be immoral and to suffer the consequences.

A philosopher from India, this man was a spiritual and moral leader favoring India's independence from Great Britain. He practiced passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change.

(1893-1976) Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists. Established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976

an ideology that supports the development and protection of the State of Israel as a Jewish state

The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler

The countries (Germany and Soviet Union) agreed that they would not attack each other and secretly divided the countries that lay between them.

the unsuccessful effort by British prime minister Neville Chamberlain to keep Adolph Hitler from starting World War II by letting Hitler annex nations in Eastern Europe

an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.

the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.