1. Appeasement Is the act of giving something to an aggressive power to keep the peace. Example of Appeasement: is the act of giving a dog some food from your plate in order to stop her begging.

2. Alsace-Lorraine A region in North East France that included provinces Alsace and Lorraine. Today the region is called “Bas Rhin”.

3. Autobahn Cody Nelson

4. BALKANIZATION To break up a country into small sections

6. Berlin Airlift Operation from 1940’s that brought food and other goods to West Berlin by air because East Germany had cut off supply routes.

7. The Berlin wall is a guarded wall built between East and West Berlin in 1961 by the communist authorities

8. Bialowieza Forest An early forest that connects the border of Belarus and Poland. The forest was known as a hunting reserve in 1541 to protect bison. In 1557, the forest approval was given out, under which a special board was proven to study forest usage.

11. Black Hand Death Serbian: known as the Black Hand, was a secret military society formed on September 6 th, 1901 by members of the Serbian Army in the Kingdom of Serbia. It was formed with the goal of joining all of the territories with the majority of South Slavic population.

12. Black Hand

13. By: Rawson Yost Communism

14. Communism is a form of government in which there are no poor or rich people, there are no state-ruled areas. The authorities in this type of government are not very prevalent. Communism relies more on all the people as a whole that don’t make money individually. The government itself makes the sum of all the money. So the people are the government.

15. Europe Terms Project By: Mikal Kirkeby

16. Containment. What it means… Containment- containing the advancement of political power (communism) in a dangerous country

17. The domino effect The belief that things happening in one country directly affect countries around it

18. A mass killing or elimination of an unwanted ethnic or religious group. Ethnic Cleansing

19. Eurotunnel Rail way/ tunnel with car shuttles from France to Britain

20. Genocide is the deliberate and organized extermination of a race

21. Holocaust By: Patrick Adams

22. Definition of holocaust The holocaust was the attempted genocide of the Jews by Adolph Hitler and germany during World War 2

23. Kristallnacht Referred to the night of broken glass. Occurred on November 9 th &10 th 1938. It was a wave of an anti-Jewish program. They broke glass out of windows of home and Jewish businesses. About 91 Jews were killed and over 30,000 arrested.

24. Luftwaffe is a German term for an air force. It was also the name for the Nazi air force

25. Maastricht Treaty The Maastricht Treaty was signed February 7, 1992 in Maastricht, Netherlands. The treaty established the three pillars of the European union: the European Community pillar, the Common Foreign and Security Policy pillar, and the Justice and Home Affairs pillar

26. Theories of Karl Marx, later started the basis for communism.. outdated class structures were supposed to be overthrown with force instead of being replaced through modification. capitalism has succeeded feudalism, then removed by socialism, followed by a society which governs itself without structure

27. Strait of Gibraltar The strait of Gibraltar is a narrow strait connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. It separates Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa

28. Third Reich The Third Reich was a common name for Nazi Germany during the time when Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ Party were in control. 1933-1945

29. Truman Doctrine An international relations policy set forth by the U.S. president Harry Truman, which stated that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent them from falling to the Soviet Union. It is often considered the start of the Cold War.

30. United Nations The UN is the most prominent and biggest organization in the world. It promotes world peace and political freedoms.