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| Unrestricted Submarine Warfare |
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| THe use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters. |
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| A conflict in which the participating countries devote all their resources to the war effort. |
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| The limiting of the amounts of goods people can buy-often imposed by the governments during wartime, when goods are in short supply. |
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| Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponent's cause. |
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| An agreement to stop fighting. |
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| A serires of proposals in which U.S. president Woodrow Wilson outlined a plan for achieving a lasting peace after World War I. |
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| The freedom of a people to decide under what form of government they wish to live. |
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| The peace treaty signed by Germany and the Allied powers after World War I. |
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| An international association formed after World War I with the goal of keeping peace among the nations. |
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| In Marxist theory, the group of workers who would overthrow the czar and come to rule Russia. |
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| A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. |
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| One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of Czar Nicholas II. |
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| A political party practicing the ideas of Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin, originally the Russian Bolshevik Party. |
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| Government control over every aspect of public and private life. |
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| A campaign of terror in the Soviet Union during the 1930's in which Joseph Stalin sought to eliminate all Commmunist Party Members and other citizens who threatened his power. |
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| An economic system in which the government makes all the economic decisions. |
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| Plans outlined by Joseph Stalin in 1928 for the development of the Soviet Union's economy. |
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| A large government-controlled farm formed by combining many small farms. |
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| The Chinese Nationalist party, formed in 1912. |
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| A national Protest in China in 1919, in which people demonstrated against the Treaty of Versailles and foreign interference. |
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| A 6,000 mile journey made in 1934-1935 by Chinese Communists fleeing from Jiang Jieshi's Nationalist forces. |
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| Laws passed in 1919 that allowed the British government in India to jail anti-British protesters without trial for as long as two years. |
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| Killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered at Amritsar to protest the Rowlatt Acts. |
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| A deliberate and public refusal to obey a law considered unjust. |
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| A peaceful protest against the Salt Acts in 1930 in India in which Mohandas Gandhi led his followers on a 240-mile walk to the sea, where they made their own salt from evaporated seawater. |
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