World History #10 Vocab

The deadliest pandemic in modern history; it infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide-about one-third of the planet's population at the time-and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims.

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South Africans who were descendants of the Dutch who settled in South Africa in the seventeenth century.

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In World War I, the nations of Great Britain, France, Russia, the United States, and others that fought against the Central Powers; in World War II, the group of nations including Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States, that fought against the Axis Powers.

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The South African policy of separation of the races.

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Policy of Great Britain and France of making concessions to Hitler in the 1930s.

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The forced deportation and extermination of a Christian minority in the Ottoman Empire and the surrounding regions from 1915-1923. Between 600,000 and 1.5 million of them died, with many more forcibly removed from the country.

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A political community consisting of the United Kingdom, its dependencies, and former colonies of Great Britain that are now sovereign nations

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In World War I, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, and other nations who fought against the Allies.

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The combination of several small farms into a large government-controlled farm. As a result of its implementation in the Soviet Union the "kulaks" (affluent peasant farmers) were targeted and eliminated by the Soviet government.

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A political movement that is characterized by extreme nationalism, one-party rule, and the denial of individual rights.

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