The Rise of Dictators
This global economic crisis caused massive unemployment and helped extremist movements gain support.
The Great Depression
This policy involved giving Hitler some of what he wanted in hopes of avoiding war.
Appeasement
A war in which governments mobilize entire societies and economies for victory.
Total war
Chinese Communist leader who came to power in 1949.
Mao Zedong
Leader who used nonviolent resistance to help India gain independence.
Mahatma "Mohandas" Gandhi
Hitler gained support in Germany during this period of democratic government.
The Weimar Republic
British Prime Minister who supported appeasement.
Neville Chamberlain
Women entered these workplaces in large numbers to support wartime production.
Factories/war industries
Famous retreat that helped Mao survive and gain support.
The Long March
The creation of this country accompanied India's partition in 1947.
Pakistan
Stalin's policy that forced peasants to farm together on large state-controlled farms.
Collectivization
African nation invaded by Italy in 1935–1936.
Ethiopia
Governments used this tool to influence public opinion and encourage support for the war effort.
Propaganda
Unlike Soviet communists, Mao relied heavily on this social class for support.
Peasant farmers
South Africa's system of legal racial segregation.
Apartheid
Stalin's industrialization program designed to rapidly increase production.
Five-Year Plans
Ethiopian leader who criticized the League of Nations for failing to stop aggression.
Haile Selassie
Compared with WWI, this group made up a much larger percentage of deaths during WWII.
Civilians
Conflicts such as Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan are examples of this type of war fought indirectly between superpowers.
Proxy wars
This imprisoned South African leader became a symbol of resistance and later helped end apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
These forced labor camps housed millions of Stalin's political opponents.
Gulags
The Japanese massacre of civilians in 1937 that became one of the most infamous atrocities before WWII.
The Rape of Nanking (invasion of Nanjing)
The United Nations defines this deliberate attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as this term.
Genocide
Gorbachev's policies of openness and restructuring that unintentionally contributed to the collapse of the USSR.
Glasnost and Perestroika
Economic process that increases connections among nations through trade, technology, and communication.
Globalization