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.

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

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.

The South African policy of separation of the races.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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