APWH Chp. 12

• Stalin, Joseph: leader of the Soviet Union (1) from the late 1920's until his death (1)
• total war: war that requires each country involved to mobilize its entire population (1) in the effort to defeat the enemy (1)
• fascism: Political ideology (1) marked by its intense nationalism (1) and authoritarianism (1).
• Great Depression: Worldwide economic depression that began in 1929 (1) with the New York stock market crash (1) and continued in many areas until the outbreak of World War II (1).
• Guomindang: The Chinese Nationalist Party (1) led by Chiang Kai-shek (1) that governed from 1928 until communist overthrow in 1949 (1).
• Ho Chi Minh: Leader of the Vietnamese communist movement (1); established control first in the north (1), and then in the whole of Vietnam after 1975 (1).
• Mao Zedong: Chairman of China's Communist Party (1) and de facto ruler of China from 1949 (1) until his death in 1976 (1).
• Treaty of Versailles: 1919 (1) treaty that officially ended World War I (1); the immense penalties it placed on Germany are regarded as one of the causes of World War II (1) .
• Vladamir Lenin: Russian Bolshevik (1) who was the main leader of the Russian Revolution of 1917 (1).
• Holocaust: Name commonly used for the Nazi genocide (1) of Jews and other "undesirables" (1) in German society (1).