Unit 6 - Vocabulary Quiz

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Across
  1. 1. Bombs dropped on Germany and Japan with intentions to spread fires and take down cities
  2. 2. In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary were known as the...
  3. 3. A party of revolutionary Marxists, led by Vladimir Lenin, who seized power in Russia in 1917
  4. 6. the economic crisis beginning with the US stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s; had far-reaching global economic effects including further hindering countries recovering from WWI
  5. 10. A form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator
  6. 12. A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism
  7. 16. Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew Jiang Jieshi and the Nationalists
  8. 17. the deliberate killing of a large group of people
  9. 20. Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I; to be administered under League of Nations supervision.
  10. 22. A form of warfare in which opposing armies fight each other from trenches dug in the battlefield
  11. 23. A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war
  12. 24. world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace; first proposed in 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson (although the United States never joined). Essentially powerless, it was officially dissolved in 1946.
  13. 25. Ottoman Muslim Turks targeted this Christian minority group within their territory from 1915-1917
Down
  1. 1. A series of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I
  2. 4. (1910-1920 CE) Armed rebellion in which the Mexican people fought for political and social reform, especially against neocolonialism; resulted in ouster of Porfirio Diaz from power; opposition forces led by Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata.
  3. 5. Post WWI German government; in great debt due to war reparations
  4. 7. A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort; most notably WWI
  5. 8. a nuclear weapon developed in the US in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission
  6. 9. WWI alliance of Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia
  7. 11. The process of combining small, private farms onto large government owned farms
  8. 13. information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.
  9. 14. A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression; an example of a government taking greater economic control
  10. 15. As part of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was ordered to pay fines to the Allies to repay the costs of the war
  11. 18. A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
  12. 19. A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to ensure German supremacy. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, homosexuals, non-Aryans, and mentally and physically disabled
  13. 21. A situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible