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Pore Sheet 8
1919-1945
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Russian civil war begins; limited woman's suffrage in Great Britain |
| 1919 | Peace of Paris; Weimar Republic; Greek-Turkish War |
| 1920 | Third Internationale; women's suffrage in US; Russo-Polish War |
| 1921 | NEP in Russia |
| 1922 | Irish free state; Mussolini's Black Shirts march on Rome; USSR founded; Treaty of Rapallo between Germany and Russia |
| 1923 | Ruhr crisis; Turkish Republic under Ataturk; hyperinflation in Germany |
| 1924 | Death of Lenin; Dawes plan; first labor coalition gov in UK |
| 1925 | Locarno treaties |
| 1927 | Stalin expels Trotsky |
| 1928 | First 5 yr plan in USSR; Salazar in power in Pourtuhal |
| 1929 | Stock market crash=great depression |
| 1931 | Manchurian crisis; Britain abandons gold standard; revolution in Spain; Statute of Westminster |
| 1933 | Hilter comes to power in Germany; FDR's First 100 days; failure of World Economic Conference |
| 1934 | Austrian crisis sends Italian troops to Brenner pass; Soviet Union admitted to League of Nations as Germany leaves and begins rearmament |
| 1935 | EIthiopian crisis |
| 1936 | Spainish Civil War begins; Leon Blum'd Popular Front gov in France; Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland; new constituiton and purge trials in USSR; Edward VIII abdicates |
| 1937 | full scale war between Japan and China; Rome-Berlin Axis |
| 1938 | Anschluss of Germany and Austria; Munich Conference |
| 1939 | Hilter annexes Czechoslovakia; fall of Barcelona ends Spainish Civil War; Nazi-Soviet pact; Hitler invades Poland; Russo-Finnish War begins |
| 1940 | Blitzkreig and the the fall of France; Churchill becomes prime minister; Japan's Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere proclaimed; Battle of Britain; USSR forcibly annexes Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania |
| 1941 | Hitler invades Russia; Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | Battle of Midway; US/UK landings in North Agrica; Battle of Stalingrad begins |
| 1943 | Allies invade Sicily and Italy; Mussolini overthrown; Casablanca, Cairo, and Teheran conferences |
| 1944 | D-Day invasion of Normandy |
| 1945 | Yalta Conference; V-E day in Eruope; first atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Potsdam Conference; V-J Day |
| Anschluss | the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 . |
| collective security | A system for maintaining world peace and security by the concerted action and agreement of all nations. |
| collectivization | often associated with the disastrous policies of the Soviet Union in the late 1920s and the 1930s, where it resulted in famine and the deaths of millions of peasants. |
| cordon sanitaire | A guarded line preventing anyone from leaving an area infected by a disease. Buffer states that are places around a nation that could be considered as a threat or pose an ideological threat. |
| Falange | the Spanish Fascist movement that merged with traditional right-wing elements in 1937 to form the ruling party, the Falange Española Tradicionalista, under General Franco. |
| fifth column | a group within a country at war who are working for its enemies. from the Spanish Civil War, when General Mola, leading four columns of troops towards Madrid, declared that he had a _____ inside the city. |
| greater east asia co-prosperity sphere | The pseudo-political and economic union of Japanese-dominated Asian and Pacific territories during World War II. |
| kellogg briand pact | a treaty renouncing war as an instrument of national policy, signed in Paris in 1928 by representatives of fifteen nations. |
| Komintang | the Nationalist Party of China. A highly centralized, hierarchical, and authoritarian party/government, the Kuomintang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, ruled China from the 1930s through World War II. Defeated by the Chinese Communists/Mao Zedong in the civil war |
| Manchukuo | Japanese puppet state in Manchuria |
| National Socialist German Workers' Party | NSDAP a nationalist, racist, and authoritarian German political party formed by Adolf Hitler in the 1920 s. Hitler and the NSDAP came to power in 1933 and proceeded to plan and initiate an aggressive war of conquest in Europe. |
| the Popular Front | a party or coalition representing left-wing elements, in particular an alliance of communist, radical, and socialist elements formed and gaining some power in countries such as France and Spain in the 1930s . |
| Kapp putsch | attempt by Wolfgang Kapp, a right-wing Prussian landowner and politician, to overthrow the WEIMAR REPUBLIC and restore the monarchy. Aided by elements in the army, itwas defeated by a general strike of the Berlin workers and the refusal of civil servants |
| quisling | a traitor collaborating with an occupying enemy force. |
| Spartacists | broke away from the Social Democrats during World War I. Led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, refused to support the war effort and rejected participation in republican government. They instigated a number of uprisings. |
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