IB History Domestic Impact of the First World War on One Country in the Americas Key Definitions

Fundamental protections against excessive government power, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, and fair legal process.

To remove rights and privileges, such as the right to vote. In Rhodesia, the white government used property and wealth restrictions to disenfranchise the Black majority.

The granting of the right to vote. In the context of the suffrage movement, it refers to extending voting rights to women. In the Canadian Indigenous context, it had a different meaning: the process by which an Indigenous person gave up their legal status and rights as an Indigenous person in exchange for Canadian citizenship.

The allocation of occupations and responsibilities according to social expectations about work considered suitable for women or men.

A political system where democratic rights and participation are limited to one dominant racial or ethnic group, while other groups are excluded or oppressed. The term was used by historian George Frederickson to describe systems like late-Victorian Britain, where parliamentary democracy coexisted with imperialism and the exclusion of women and colonised peoples.

The process by which institutions and dominant groups restrict a community's access to rights, security, political influence, resources, or social recognition.

An economy reorganized to finance, produce, transport, and allocate the resources required for military conflict.

The organization of a country's people, economy, institutions, and resources to support military participation in a major conflict.