w. 5 - Cold War - Russian Revolution - Atlantic Charter

Words for FRIDAY, 3 February. See below for slides.

hostility
rivalry
trade barrier
tariff
liberate
capitalism
Iron Curtain

names:
Winston Churchill
FDR, Franklin D. Roosevelt
Josef Stalin
Harry Truman  

On Friday we discussed the following:

- the Soviet-German non-Aggression Pact (1939)
- the Katyn Massacre (1940)
- the 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union
- the Atlantic Charter (1941)
- overall death figures for WWII, where the Soviet Union had a loss of life of over 20 million people
- and we started talking about Germany and its role in a post-WWII Europe

We also line up the Allies and the Axis powers of WWII

Allies: GB, France, U.S., USSR
Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan

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MONDAY, 30 Jan., we'll talk about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union. There are  discussed in Chapter 30, Sections 1 & 2.

Here are terms connected to that event.

Bolshevik
proletariat
communism
czar
dictatorship
legislature (the body of the government that makes laws)
civil war
Red Army (Bolsheviks)
White Army (supports the czar)
abdicate
discontent
provisional (temporary)
captialist, capitalism 
communal
totalitarianism
collectivism, collective farms
command economy /planned economy
five-year plan
ideology


Names we'll discuss
Czar Nicholas II (Romanov)
Vladimir Lenin
Josef Stalin
Leon Trotsky 
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels 

 

 

SOVIET HISTORY

bodies from the Katyn Massacre in Poland, 1940

w. 4 - Cold War

On Friday, 27 Jan., we'll start working with the Cold War. I'm going to start a list of words that are relevant to this unit -- which will have many terms that are needed to work with the material in it. I'll keep this list at the top of the blog.

Cold War terms:

• anti-Semitism
• Soviet Union, USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• xenophobia - främlingsfientlighet
• acquisition - förvärv
• annex - add to one's own territory through appropriation (taking)
• prosperity - välstånd; prosperous     
• atrocity/atrocities - illdåd
• ally/allies, the Allies
• alliance
• charter (kontrakt)
• treaty (avtal, pakt)
• devastate - ödelägga
• seize 
• Holocaust - Förintelsen
• ideology
• reform
• satellite (used to talk about countries in associated with the Soviet Union.) (definition:   something that is separated from or on the periphery of something else but is nevertheless dependent on or controlled by it: satellite offices in London and New York.) 
• reparations - gottgörelse
• armaments - rustningar
• occupation
• currency - valuta
• dissolution - upplösning
• bloc - block (Soviet bloc - Sovjetblocket)