Cold War
Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
Axis Powers
Germany, Italy, Japan
Stalinism
Stalin's government system that was acheived in the name of Communism but was more like totalitarianism; benefited only government and relied on terror tactics, secret police, bogus trials and assassination
Scientific Revolution
The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science.
Berlin Conference
A meeting from 1884-1885 at which representatives of European nations agreed on rules colonization of Africa
Berlin Wall
A wall separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West
Appeasement
Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict
Salt March
Gandhi led a march over 240 miles to protest the British monopoly on salt in India
Geocentric Theory
Earth is the center of the universe. Aristotelian.
Rudyard Kipling
British writer who wrote of "the white man's burden" and justified imperialism
Marshall Plan
A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948-1952)
Third Reich (Nazism)
The Third Republic of Germany which began Hitler's rule in 1933 and ended with his defeat in 1945
Totalitarianism
A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe
Cecil Rhodes
Born in 1853, played a major political and economic role in colonial South Africa. He was a financier, statesman, and empire builder with a philosophy of mystical imperialism.
Cold War (1945-1991)
A war of words and threats between the United States and the Soviet Union that was marked primarily by a political and economic, rather than military, struggle between the two nations.
Blitzkrieg
"Lighting war", typed of fast-moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939.
Joseph Stalin's rule in the Soviet Union was characterized by the...
...establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship
reason
logical thinking
Annexation
the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
Explain the purpose fo Winston Church Hills' "Iron Curtian" speech.
the speech he said "an iron curtain had descended across Europe." This shows the metaphorical division in Europe. In his speech he called for the USA and the west to stand up against the spread of communism beyond the agreed parameters at Yalta.
Munich Conference
1938 conference at which European leaders attempted to appease Hitler by turning over the Sudetenland to him in exchange for promise that Germany would not expand Germany's territory any further.
Great Purge
(1934), Stalin cracked down on Old Bolsheviks, his net soon widened to target army heroes, industrial managers, writers and citizens, they were charged with a wide range of crimes, from plots to failure to not meeting production quotas.
Renes Descartes
He developed analytical geometry; relied on math and logic; he believed that everything should be doubted until proven by reason; believed that scientists needed to reject old assumptions and teachings, Cogito Ergo Sum
Scramble for Africa
sudden wave of conquests in Africa by European powers in the 1880s and 1890s. Britain obtained most of eastern Africa, France most of northwestern Africa. Other countries (Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain) acquired lesser amounts.