Politicians, Parties, and Political Movements
The Chinese Nationalist Party
Kuomintang
An organization in which all the nations of the world would convene to discuss conflicts openly, as a way to avoid the simmering tension that caused World War 1.
League of Nations
With both the Central Powers and the Allies using brutal weapons and tactics, neither side could defeat the other. The result was this.
Stalemate
The Communist Party's central organization in the Soviet Union.
Politburo
Soviet counteroffensive that successfully defeated the pride of Hitler's military, the German Sixth army in this battle.
The leader of the first Chinese republic
Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Woodrow Wilson's principles for peace that were outlined and presented during the Paris Peace Conference
Fourteen Points
Committing all resources toward the war effort. A nation's domestic population as well as its military is committed to winning the war.
Total War
Germany's political union with Austria, making it officially part of the Third Reich in 1938.
Anschluss
Four Japanese aircraft carriers were destroyed during this battle where Allied naval forces demonstrated their superiority in the pacific.
Was formed in 1929. Though widely criticized as corrupt, it dominated Mexican politics. Until 2000, all Presidents were members.
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
A Nationalist organization devoted to ending Austro-Hungarian presence in the Balkans
The Black Hand
The 1919 peace treaty concluding the first World War
Treaty of Versailles
Passed in 1925, they forbade marriage between Jews and gentiles, stripped Jews of their citizenship, and unleashed a series of subsequent decrees that effectively pushed Jews to the margins of German society.
The Nuremberg Laws
The Germans made one final push against the allies during the winter of 1944. This battle was fought in the Ardennes Forest across parts of France, Belgium, and Luxembourg.
Battle of the Bulge
As Ottoman prosperity declined, this group of reformers emerged. They advocated for a constitution like those of the European states.
Young Turks
The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne who was assassinated on June 28th 1914.
Franz Ferdinand
Communication meant to influence the attitudes and opinions of a community around a subject by spreading inaccurate or slanted imagination.
Propaganda
After the Communist Revolution in 1917, by 1921, Lenin realized that the Russian economy was near complete collapse. In an attempt to remedy this, he instituted a temporary retreat from communist economic policies, under this new plan he reintroduced private trade on a small scale.
New Economic Policy
This battle in 1942 turned the tide of the war in North Africa when the British defeated Rommel.
Battle of El Alamein
Leader of the Turkish Nationalists who defeated the British and other forces in 1921. He became the first president of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal
The Serbian assassin who murdered the Archduke and his wife in 1914.
Gavrillo Princip
Gallipoli
Stalin's plan to transform the USSR into an industrial power and included collectivization leading to extreme famine and the deaths of tens of millions of people.
In July 1943, this largest tank battle of the war was fought about 300 miles south of Moscow. The Soviets challenged this instance of German Blitzkrieg by successfully holding their defensive position and then counterattacking.
Battle of Kursk