MWH - 2024 Spring Semester Final Review (Vocabulary)

Chapter 6 Vocabulary - People

• Marie Antoinette

• rough lawyer who started the Reign of Terror

• Robespierre

• head of the National Guard in France & hero to the moderates

• Jacques Necker

• financial expert who was an advisor to King Louis XVI

• Marquis de Lafayette

• popular military leader who was able to gain power in France & tried to take over the world

• Napoleon

• queen of France who was beheaded during the French Revolution

Chapter 6 Vocabulary - Terms

• deficit spending

• French revolutionary political club that worked to advance the republican cause

• suffrage

• working class who pushed for radical actions during the French Revolution

• Jacobins

• the right to vote

• republic

• government ruled by elected representatives

• Sans-Culottes

• government spends more money than it takes in

Chapter 14 Vocabulary - Terms (1)

• mobilize

• preparing military forces for war

• neutrality

• glorification of the military

• stalemate

• deadlocked in a tie

• militarism

• German submarines

• u-boats

• supporting neither side in the war

Chapter 14 Vocabulary - Terms (2)

• propaganda

• spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage another

• conscription

• the draft

• Lusitania

• all country's resources are put towards war effort

• total war

• British ship torpedoed by Germany in May 1915

• Fourteen Points

• list of items for resolving WWI & all future wars written by US President Woodrow Wilson

Chapter 17 Vocabulary - People

• Tojo

• US President for most of WWII

• Mussolini

• Italy

• Churchill

• Germany

• Roosevelt

• Great Britain

• Hitler

• Japan

Chapter 17 Vocabulary - People & Terms

• Marshall Plan

• Soviet Union

• Stalin

• massive aid given from the US to European countries to help out after WWII

• appeasement

• US policy of trying to contain communism

• Truman Doctrine

• code name for the project to build the first atomic bomb

• Manhattan Project

• policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace

Chapter 18 Vocabulary - People

• Kennedy

• 35th president (1961-1963) democrat

• Gorbachev

• 40th president (1981-1989)

• Reagan

• communist leader of Cuba who took away many rights fo citizens

• Castro

• leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the US

• Martin Luther King, Jr

• 8th & final leader of the USSR (1985-1991)

Chapter 18 Vocabulary - Terms

• containment

• people moving away from cities to counties outside of the city

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• 1962 USSR sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, less than 100 miles from Florida

• segregation

• nonviolent social movement in the US for racial equality (1954-1968)

• suburbanization

• US policy to stop communism from spreading while allowing it to stay where it already is

• Civil Rights Movement

• forced separation based on race (education, housing)