Unit 7 AP World History

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

People who favor the equal distribution of wealth and the end of all forms of private property.

Revolutionary and leader of peasants in the Mexican Revolution. He mobilized landless peasants in south-central Mexico in an attempt to seize and divide the lands of the wealthy landowners. Though successful for a time, he was ultimately defeated and assassinated.

Early leader in the Mexican Revolution; in 1911 became president of Mexico; wanted land ownership and free, honest elections, two years later he was murdered, led to power struggles.

Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Turkish nationalist who founded the modern Turkish state.

Dictator in Mexico from 1876 to 1911. Overthrown by the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

Chinese nationalist revolutionary, founder and leader of the Guomindang (Kuomintang) until his death. He attempted to create a liberal democratic political movement in China but was thwarted by military leaders.

A process of cultural change designed to make all citizens of the empire feel a part of a common Turkish heritage and society.

A coalition starting in the late 1870s of various groups favoring modernist liberal reform of the Ottoman Empire. It was against the monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and instead favored a constitution. In 1908 they succeeded in establishing a new constitutional era.

(1929) A novel written by Erich Maria Remarque illustrating the horrors of World War I and the experiences of veterans and soldiers. It was extremely popular, but also caused a lot of political controversy when it was first published, and was banned in Germany in the 1930's.

Heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, started World War I.

The Big Four were the four most important leaders, and the most important ones at the Paris Peace Conference. They were Woodrow Wilson- USA, David Lloyd George - UK, George Clemenceau - France, and Vittorio Orlando- Italy.

A military draft

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war.

Payment for war damages.

When nations joined together to support each other. Was originally meant to keep peace, but instead pushed nations into WWI. Triple Entente Vs. Triple Alliance.

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort.

A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding World War I.

Union of Austria and German

Treaty between Germany and Japan promising a common front against communism.

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict.

1941-Pledge signed by US president FDR and British prime minister Winston Churchill not to acquire new territory as a result of WWII and to work for peace after the war.

Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939.

A military strategy used during World War II that involved selectively attacking specific enemy-held islands and bypassing others.

Allowed sales or loans of war materials to any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the U.S.

1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.

An area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler.

Southern Pro-Nazi French; govern themselves as loyal to Nazis; traitors to the Free French in N. France.

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities.

Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Hitler's program of systematically killing the entire Jewish people.

Deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group.

Used to denote a section of a city in which members of any minority group live because of social, legal, or economic pressure. Originally used for Jewish communities.

Killed almost 30 million worldwide, spread between military camps and to the urban population, stimulated research for vaccines and antibiotics.

A permanent tribunal for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Black Arabic-speaking militia responsible for most of the Darfur genocide.

Group of writers in 1920s who shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe.

Disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects a very high proportion of the population.