Vocab
A system where one leader has total control and citizens have little freedom.
What is authoritarianism?
Businesses are privately owned, and people compete to make money.
What is capitalism?
Fascist leader of Germany during WWII.
Who was Adolf Hitler?
The genocide in which about 6 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis.
What is the Holocaust?
The war that began in 1914 after Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.
What is World War I?
Blaming a group for problems to distract people from real issues.
What is scapegoating?
Using media to influence how people think.
What is propaganda?
Fascist Italy’s wars and colonial violence caused about 300,000–500,000 deaths, especially in Ethiopia and Libya.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
camps where about 11 million people total were killed or experimented on, including Jews, Roma, disabled people, and others.
What are concentration and extermination camps?
The global economic collapse of the 1930s.
What is the Great Depression?
The government controls most factories and land, and claims everyone is equal.
What is communism?
Taking over other lands for power and resources.
What is imperialism?
Policies like forced famine and political repression caused about 5–7 million deaths in Ukraine and nearby regions.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Stalin’s prisons where about 2 million people died from labor and starvation.
What are the Gulags?
The system of fighting in deep ditches during WWI.
What is trench warfare?
The belief in “improving” humans by controlling who can have children.
What is eugenics?
The killing of a large group of people in hope of 'ethnically cleansing" the land
What is a genocide
U.S. president during most of the Great Depression and WWII.
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The bombing of Japanese cities that killed about 200,000 peopl
What are the atomic bombings?
The peace treaty that punished Germany after WWI (France)
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The belief that some races or nations are naturally superior.
What is Social Darwinism?
The state works with big companies while controlling media and politics.
What is fascism?
Japanese leader during WWII.
Who was Emperor Hirohito?
Japan’s massacre of about 200,000 civilians in China
What is the Nanjing Massacre?
The agreement that partitioned Africa for European powers
What is the Berlin Conference?