World War I
Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
What is propaganda?
Centralized system that exercises an extremely high degree of control over public and private life.
What is Totalitarianism?
Centralized, authoritarian government that glorifies the state over the individual, is destructive to basic human rights, and is rooted in extreme nationalism.
What is Fascism?
Large business organizations operating in a number of different national economies such as Nestle or McDonald's.
What is trans/multinational corporation?
This term refers to the policy that accepts demands in order to avoid a bigger conflict.
What is appeasement?
These are the leading causes for World War I are used in a common acronym.
What is Military, Alliance, Imperialism, and Nationalism
Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy that aimed at improving heavy industry and farm output, but resulted in famine.
What are Five Year Plans?
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
Agricultural revolution of the mid-20th century that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation and helped to support rising populations.
What is the Green Revolution?
The Cambodian genocide was carried out by this group.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
These FOUR countries made up the Allied Powers and were later joined by the U.S. in 1917.
Who are Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
What is the League of Nations?
The term for the territory believed by Nazis to be necessary for national existence or economic self-sufficiency.
What is Lebensraum or living space?
Indian version of the film industry, centered in Mumbai that is an example of globalized culture where the West influenced South Asia which now influences the world.
What is Bollywood?
This group was targeted by the Hutu in the 1994 Rwandan genocide
Who are the Tutsi?
This document's “war guilt” clause forced Germany and other Central Powers to take all the blame for World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
A series of reforms and deficit spending enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression
What is the New Deal?
U.S. Marines who developed and utilized a special code using their indigenous language to transmit sensitive information during World War II.
Who are the (Navajo) Code Talkers?
A society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods but instead on the production of ideas, information, and high skill levels.
What is a knowledge-based economy?
The older, land based empires that collapsed after 1900 due to internal and external conflict
Who are the Ottomans, Russians and Qings
Far-left, revolutionary Marxist faction founded by Vladimir Lenin that lead the October Revolution of 1917.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I.
What is the Mandate System?
Settlement reached by Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted German annexation of the Sudetenland, in western Czechoslovakia.
What is the Munich Agreement?
Founded in 1995, a global institution created to promote international trade and to settle international trade disputes
What is the World Trade Organization?
After coming into power in mexico due to a coup, he would go on to be president for 31 years. His rule would bring stability rich Mexican elites, but bring hardship to lower class peasants and farmers.
Who is Porifirio Diaz