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10th Grade Vocabulary Words

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Words 561–595 of 800
#	Word	Details	Meaning	Sample sentence
561	Zollverein	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Capitalization focus: this is a proper name, so its standard written form begins with a capital letter.	the customs union that reduced trade barriers among many German states before political unification	The Zollverein encouraged economic ties while excluding Austria.
562	Kulturkampf	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Capitalization focus: this is a proper name, so its standard written form begins with a capital letter.	Bismarck's campaign to reduce the Roman Catholic Church's political influence in the German Empire	Resistance from Catholic voters eventually weakened the Kulturkampf.
563	scramble for Africa	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: scramble + for + Africa. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the rapid late-nineteenth-century expansion of European territorial claims and colonial rule in Africa	The scramble for Africa imposed borders with little regard for existing African societies.
564	indirect rule	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: indirect + rule. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a colonial system that governs through selected local authorities under imperial supervision	British administrators used indirect rule by assigning duties to recognized chiefs.
565	direct rule	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: direct + rule. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a colonial system in which officials of an imperial power exercise centralized authority over a territory	Direct rule replaced many local institutions with a European administrative hierarchy.
566	assimilation policy	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: assimilation + policy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a colonial program intended to replace local institutions and culture with those of the ruling power	The assimilation policy offered limited citizenship to colonial subjects who adopted prescribed French institutions.
567	extraterritoriality	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Suffix focus: -ity commonly forms a noun naming a quality, state, or condition.	a privilege exempting foreigners from local courts and placing them under their own country's legal authority	Unequal treaties granted some foreign merchants extraterritoriality in Chinese ports.
568	Open Door Policy	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Open + Door + Policy. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a United States policy calling for equal commercial access to China and preservation of its territorial integrity	The Open Door Policy opposed exclusive trading zones controlled by a single foreign power.
569	Boxer Rebellion	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Boxer + Rebellion. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1899–1901 anti-foreign and anti-Christian uprising in northern China that was defeated by an international force	After the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing government was required to pay a large indemnity.
570	Meiji Restoration	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Meiji + Restoration. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1868 political transformation that restored imperial rule and accelerated Japan's centralization and modernization	The Meiji Restoration led to national institutions, industrial reforms, and a conscript army.
571	Russo-Japanese War	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Russo + Japanese + War. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1904–1905 conflict in which Japan defeated Russia over rival ambitions in northeast Asia	The Russo-Japanese War altered international perceptions of power in Asia.
572	Sepoy Rebellion	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Sepoy + Rebellion. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1857–1858 uprising against East India Company rule involving Indian soldiers and diverse regional groups	After the Sepoy Rebellion, the British Crown took direct control of India.
573	Indian National Congress	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Indian + National + Congress. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the political organization founded in 1885 that became central to India's independence movement	The Indian National Congress gradually expanded its demands from greater participation to self-government.
574	Tanzimat reforms	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Tanzimat + reforms. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the nineteenth-century Ottoman program of administrative, legal, military, and educational reorganization	The Tanzimat reforms proclaimed greater legal equality while strengthening central government.
575	Young Turks	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Young + Turks. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	members of a reform movement that restored the Ottoman constitution in 1908 and promoted a more centralized state	The Young Turks forced Sultan Abdulhamid II to restore parliamentary government.
576	Balkan nationalism	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Balkan + nationalism. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	movements seeking political autonomy or unity for national groups in southeastern Europe	Balkan nationalism weakened Ottoman authority and intensified rivalry among neighboring states.
577	Schlieffen Plan	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Schlieffen + Plan. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	Germany's prewar strategy for rapidly defeating France before turning its main forces against Russia	Unexpected resistance and logistical problems disrupted the Schlieffen Plan in 1914.
578	unrestricted submarine warfare	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: unrestricted + submarine + warfare. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the practice of using submarines to attack shipping without consistently warning crews or protecting passengers	Germany's return to unrestricted submarine warfare helped bring the United States into World War I.
579	Fourteen Points	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Fourteen + Points. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	President Woodrow Wilson's 1918 program proposing principles for a postwar settlement	The Fourteen Points called for open diplomacy and an association of nations.
580	war guilt clause	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: war + guilt + clause. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the Versailles Treaty provision assigning Germany responsibility for losses caused by the war as a legal basis for reparations	Many Germans viewed the war guilt clause as a humiliating accusation.
581	Weimar Republic	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Weimar + Republic. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	Germany's parliamentary republic from 1919 until the Nazi seizure of power in 1933	The Weimar Republic faced political violence, economic crises, and fragile coalition governments.
582	Dawes Plan	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Dawes + Plan. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1924 arrangement that rescheduled German reparations and used foreign loans to stabilize payments	The Dawes Plan temporarily eased financial pressure on Germany.
583	hyperinflation	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Suffix focus: -ation commonly forms a noun naming an action, process, or result.	an extremely rapid and self-reinforcing rise in the general price level that sharply reduces a currency's purchasing power	During hyperinflation, German workers rushed to spend wages before prices rose again.
584	Nuremberg Laws	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Nuremberg + Laws. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the 1935 Nazi laws that stripped German Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriages classified as interracial	The Nuremberg Laws transformed racist ideology into state-enforced legal discrimination.
585	Final Solution	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Final + Solution. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the Nazi plan for the systematic murder of Europe's Jewish population during the Holocaust	The Final Solution was implemented through deportations, mass shootings, ghettos, forced labor, and killing centers.
586	Kristallnacht	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Capitalization focus: this is a proper name, so its standard written form begins with a capital letter.	the coordinated Nazi attack of November 9–10, 1938, against Jewish people, homes, businesses, and synagogues	Kristallnacht marked a severe escalation from legal persecution to open mass violence.
587	Lebensraum	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Base-form focus: Lebensraum is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	the Nazi imperial concept of acquiring living space in eastern Europe through conquest, expulsion, and racial domination	The pursuit of Lebensraum helped drive Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union.
588	blitzkrieg	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Base-form focus: blitzkrieg is the dictionary headword; compare its inflected or derived forms in context.	a fast offensive method coordinating concentrated armored, air, and mobile forces to disrupt an opponent	Germany used blitzkrieg tactics to overwhelm Poland's defenses in 1939.
589	Operation Barbarossa	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Operation + Barbarossa. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the code name for Nazi Germany's 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union	Operation Barbarossa opened an enormous eastern front but failed to secure a rapid victory.
590	island hopping	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: island + hopping. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the Allied Pacific strategy of capturing selected islands while bypassing other fortified positions	Island hopping brought airfields and naval bases progressively closer to Japan.
591	D-Day	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: D + Day. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	June 6, 1944, when Allied forces landed in Normandy to begin a major western European offensive	D-Day required coordination among airborne troops, naval forces, aircraft, and landing units.
592	Manhattan Project	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Manhattan + Project. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the United States-led wartime research program that developed the first atomic weapons	The Manhattan Project combined secret laboratories, industrial facilities, and international scientific expertise.
593	Yalta Conference	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Yalta + Conference. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the February 1945 meeting where Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin discussed the final war effort and postwar Europe	At the Yalta Conference, the leaders debated occupation zones and Poland's future government.
594	Potsdam Conference	proper noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Potsdam + Conference. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	the July–August 1945 meeting where Allied leaders negotiated policies for occupied Germany and unresolved postwar questions	The Potsdam Conference exposed growing disagreements between the Soviet Union and Western Allies.
595	Iron Curtain	noun Study Field: Grade 10 world-history, civics, and economics term Word study: Term structure: Iron + Curtain. Study the complete expression as one field-specific unit.	a metaphor for the political, military, and ideological division between Soviet-controlled eastern Europe and the West during the Cold War	Churchill's Iron Curtain speech described an emerging division across Europe.

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