Download Review Section 1: Definitions

Absolutism
 One person has complete power
 EX: Louis XIV
Holocaust
Killing of Jews by the Nazis during WWII.
Trench Warfare
 Fighting in trenches (holes in the ground) for
protection. (WWI and WWII).
Genocide
 Mass killing of people due to religion, racial
background, etc.
Federalist Papers
 Written to support the signing of the Constitution.
Waterloo
 Napoleon’s last battle.
Guillotine
 Machine used to chop peoples heads off during the
French Revolution.
Imperialism
 Take over of countries for natural resources.
Propaganda
 Posters/music/news/etc. created to make you emotional
and choose to react a certain way. (Go to war, etc.)
Appeasement
 Please someone so they act a certain way. (We gave
Hitler land so he wouldn’t go to war)
Blitzkrieg
 Lots of airplanes dropping lots of bombs, tanks, army
sneak attack by the Germans. Lightening war.
Parliament
 British government, judicial, executive, and legislative
all in one!
Lusitania
 A passenger ship torpedoed by the Germans….one
reason why the U.S. joined WWI!
U-Boat
 Submarine, weapon! Underwater boat.
Spanish Armada
 Fleet of Spanish Warships sent to England to take-
over, they failed and a storm destroyed most of them.
Reparations
 Money paid by Germany for World War I destruction
to allied countries
Axis Powers in WWII
 Bad guys
 Germany, Italy, Japan
United Nations
 Created after WWII to keep the peace throughout the
world
 Replaced the weak League of nations
 Have an Army
Revolution
 Lots of change over a short period of time.
Atomic Bomb
 Created during WWII, dropped on Japan in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, creates a mushroom cloud.
Great
Depression
A period of
widespread
poverty in the
United States after
the Stock Market
crashed in 1929.
Suez Canal
Man made
canal that
increased the
trade between
Europe, Middle
East, and Asia.
Old World
The countries in the east
that were inhabited
before the Columbian
exchange.
Asia
Europe
Africa
Middle East
New
World
The ‘new’ countries in
the west that were
found during the times
of exploration and were
exploited during the
Columbian Exchange.
North America
South America
Central America
Triangle
Trade
Trade that was
expanded from
Europe to Africa to
the New World.
Effects include:
•Depopulation in
Africa due to slave
trade
•Growth of
plantation
agriculture