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When a nation uses all of its economic, human, and technological resources to make war.
What is total war?
100
A system of government that glorifies the nation and leader above the individual.
What is fascism?
100
A group concerned with finding communist supporters in the United States.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
100
Organized violence aimed targeting civilians for the purpose of achieving a political goal.
What is terrorism?
100
Hitler's auto-biography.
What is "Mein Kampf"?
200
The mass killing of Armenians by the Turkish government during World War I.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
200
A law which suspended Germany's constitution for 4 years.
What is the 1933 Enabling Act?
200
The US policy of providing economic and military aid to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
A group of religious students who controlled Afghanistan from 1996-2001.
What is the Taliban?
200
A prison used by the US government to detain suspected terrorists.
What is Guantanamo Bay prison?
300
A terrorist group made up of Serbians who wanted Bosnia to be joined with Serbia.
What is the Black Hand Organization?
300
The turning point of World War II for Germany.
What is the Battle of Stalingrad?
300
A failed US intervention to overthrow Fidel Castro's communist-leaning government.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
300
A conflict between the mujahedin and the USSR between 1979-1989.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
300
The hatred of Jewish people.
What is antisemitism?
400
An agreement which blamed Germany for causing WWI and demanded she pay reparations and reduce her military.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
400
The strategy of meeting small demands in order to discourage larger ones.
What is appeasement?
400
A metaphor for the post-WWII division of Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
400
The US practice of sending suspected terrorists to foreign countries to undergo torture.
What is extraordinary rendition?
400
An organization which began as a recruiting base of mujahedin.
What is al-Qaeda?
500
The strategy of wearing down your enemy through heavy casualties.
What is attrition warfare?
500
Countries that were not invaded because they cooperated with Germany.
What are collaborator nations?
500
A war fought using paid soldiers from another country.
What is a proxy war?
500
The result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
500
A racial empire that was to last 1000 years.
What is the Third Reich?