WH Units 10 & 11 Vocabulary

An association created to further  the common interests of the members

• Militarism

• Alliance

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

A policy of aggressive military preparedness

• Militarism

• Alliance

• Imperialism

• Nationalism

Information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view

• propaganda

• totalitarianism

• appeasement

• total war

Type of combat where fighting takes place on land between earthen ditches

• trench warfare

• total war

• totalitarianism

• fascism

Category of political systems characterized by centralized governmental control of all aspects of society through the suppression of rights and the use of propaganda, examples include fascism and communism

• totalitarianism

• total war

• fascism

• militarism

A political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual generally characterized by centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader

• fascism

• totalitarianism

• total war

• self-determination

The idea that people living in a particular region have the right to form their own government

• self-determination

• appeasement

• alliance

• totalitarianism

Making concessions in order to avoid conflict

• appeasement

• alliance

• self-determination

• fascism

Condition in which all aspects of society are involved in the production for war and the consequences of war

• total war

• militarism

• totalitarianism

• fascism

Economic conditions characterized by  high unemployment, and  business failures

• economic depression

• total war

• appeasement

• totalitarianism