World History II Vocabulary By Standard
Listed below are vocabulary words that, upon completion of the unit of instruction, should be familiar to
students. These words are introduced in the student text. Some of these words will be used in the
CRT’s. Every effort has been made to make the readability of each CRT appropriate for the grade level
at which the assessment was written. If needed, teachers are allowed to assist students with reading and
comprehending difficult words or phrases they may encounter during the CRT assessment. The
following are guidelines for providing assistance.
 Any word(s) may be pronounced to a student as necessary.
 Additional assistance may be given for words that do not appear on the list below
(defining words, providing context clues, giving examples, etc.).
 Do not provide clues that may help students figure out the correct answer.
Standard 4: Vocabulary Terms
Alchemy
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Battle of Waterloo
Bourgeoisie
Candide
Capitalism
Central Powers
Colonialism
Communists
Congress of Vienna
Conscription
Conservatives (19th Century)
Coup d’etat
Creoles
Deism
Elliptical orbits
Enlightened despot
Estates
Ethiopia
French Revolution
German States
Great Britain
Great Fear
Guerilla resistance/warfare
Imperialism
Industrial revolution
Jacobians
Latin American Revolutions
Laissez-faire
Les Mis’erables
Liberals (19th Century)
Loyalists
Marxism
Mestizos
Metaphysics
Nationalism
Natural Law
Opium War
Pacifism
Peninsulares
Standard 4: Significant Individuals
Marie Antionette
Giuseppe Garibaldi
Francis Bacon
William Harvey
Otto von Bismarck
Ho Chi Minh
Napolean Bonaparte
Thomas Hobbes
Robert Boyle
Victor Hugo
Count Cavour
Immanuel Kant
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
René Descartes
Marie Lavoisier
Benjamin Disraeli
John Locke
Galileo Galilei
King Louis XVI
Karl Marx
Philosophe
Port Arthur attack
Principia
Radicals
Reactionaries
Reign of terror
Revolution
Romanticism
Salon
Scientific method
Scientific Revolution
“Sick man” of Europe
Socialism
Spheres of influence
Storming of the Bastille
Supply /demand
Two Treatises of Government
Unicameral Legislature
Versailles
“White Man’s Burden”
Unification of Italy
Giuseppe Mazzini
Baron de Montesquieu
Isaac Newton
Madame de Pompadour
Cecil Rhodes
Maximilien Robespierre
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Adam Smith
Pope Urban VIII
Voltaire
John Wesley
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Standard 5: Vocabulary Terms
Alliance System
Allied Powers
Armistice
Axis powers
Balfour Declaration
Blitzkrieg
Bombing of London
Boom Years
Brownshirts
Cash and Carry policy
Causes of WWI
Causes of WWII
Coalitions
Collectivization
Communism
Concentration Camps
Conscription
Contraband
Cordon Sanitaire
Covenant of the League of
Bolsheviks
Cubism
Dachau/Auschwitz
D-Day
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
Disarmament
Eastern Front
Entente
Ethiopian Invasion
Fascist Party (WWI)
Final Solution
Flappers
Gas chambers
General Strike
Genocide
Gestapo
Guadalcanal
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Holocaust
Invasion of Sicily
Irish Free State
Iwo Jima
Japanese Imperialists
Jazz Age
Kamikaze
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kristallnacht
Labour Party
League of Nations
Lend Lease Act
Luftwaffe
Lusitania
Maginot Line
Manchurian Invasion
Master Race
Mein Kampf
Munich Conference
Nanking
National Socialist Workers Party
(Nazi Party)
Nationalism
New Deal
“No Man’s Land”
Normalcy
North African Front
Nuremberg Laws/Trials
Okinawa
Pacific Front
Partisans
Pearl Harbor
Peninsulares
Popular Front – France
Post War economies
Potsdam Meeting
Propaganda
Provisional government
Red Army
Reichstag
Reparations
Rhineland
Roosevelt Corollary
Russian Revolution
Salt tax
Sarajevo
Schlieffen Plan
Scorched Earth Policy
Secret Police
Siberian Labor Camps
Siege of Leningrad
Spanish Civil War
Stalemate
Stalin’s 5-year plan
Stock Market Crash
Sudetenland
Suez Canal
Surrealism
Sykes/Picot Agreement
Syndicates
Twenty-One Demands
Treaty of Versailles
Trench Warfare
Tripartite Pact
U boats
VE Day
Vichy Government
VJ Day
War Crimes
War of attrition
Warlords
Weimar Republic
Western Front
White Army
Winter Palace
Yalta Conference
Zaibatsu
Zimmermann Telegram
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Standard 5: People
King Alfonso
Louis Armstrong
Otto Von Bismark
President Cardenas
Neville Chamberlain
Chiang Kai-shek
Winston Churchill
George Clemenceau
Isadora Duncan
Albert Einstein
General Eisenhower
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Francisco Franco
Sigmund Freud
Charles De Gaulle
David Lloyd George
Hermann Goering
President Gomez
Osachi Hamguchi
Ernest Hemingway
Father Miguel Hildalgo
Emperor Hirohito
Adolph Hitler – ‘Der Fuhrer’
Langston Hughes
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
General Kemal (Ataturk)
Alexander Kerensky
T.E. Lawrence
General MacArthur
Ramsay Macdonald
General Bernard Montgomery
Benito Mussolini – ‘Il Duce’
Jawaharlal Nehru
Czar Nicholas II
Admiral Nimitz
Vittorio Orlando
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Standard 6: General Vocabulary Terms
Apartheid
Collective Security
Appeasement
Communist Party
Berlin Wall
Containment
Bloody Sunday
Cuban Missile Crisis
“Brightest jewel in her Majesty’s
French Indochina
crown”
Cold War Powers
Isolationism
Standard 6: Significant Individuals
Idi Amin
Konstantin Chernenko
Yuri Andropov
Mohandas Gandhi
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nelson Mandela
General Patton
General Petain
Pablo Picasso
Rasputin
General Rommel
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
General Sandino
Haile Selassie
Joseph Stalin
John Steinbeck
Igor Stravinsky
Sun Yat sen
Leon Trotsky
Harry Truman
President Uriburu
King William II
Woodrow Wilson
President Vargas
Admiral Yamamoto
Marshall Plan
Pakistan
Persian Gulf War
Trade Unions
United Nations
Ukraine Resistance
Patrice Lumumba
Anwar Sadat
Lech Walesa
Mao Zedong
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