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World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| At the core of Hitler’s ideas was racism, especially ____________________. | anti-Semitism |
| ____________________ established the first European fascist movement in Italy in the early 1920s | Benito Mussolini |
| After the collapse of Imperial Germany, a German democratic state called the ____________________ was formed. | Weimar Republic |
| A _________________________ is a government that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens. | totalitarian state |
| The goal of Stalin’s _____________________ was to transform Russia virtually overnight from an agricultural country into an industrial country, | Five Year Plan(s) |
| The _____________________________ excluded Jews from German citizenship, forbade marriages between Jews and German citizens, and required Jews to wear yellow Stars of David to identify themselves as Jewish. | Nuremberg Laws |
| Hitler seized power when two thirds of the Reichstag passed the ________________________ which gave Hitler’s government the power to ignore the constitution for four years. | Enabling Act |
| The _______________________________ was designed to rebuild the prosperity and stability of war-torn Europe after WWII. | Marshall Plan |
| The United States and the Soviet Union were involved in a growing ____________________________ in which both countries built up their armies and weapons. | arms race |
| President ____________________ reached an agreement with North Vietnam that allowed the United States to withdraw its troops. | Nixon |
| The _____________________________ stated that the United States would provide money to countries threatened by Communist expansion. | Truman Doctrine |
| A country that was economically and politically dependent on the Soviet Union was called a ____________________________________. | satellite state |
| Western European nations formed the _______________________ military alliance in which they agreed to provide mutual help if any one of them was attacked. | NATO |
| In 1955, Eastern European countries joined in a military alliance called the ____________________. | Warsaw Pact |
| The idea that allowing Communist aggressors to take over one country will encourage them to take over other nations has been called the ________________________________. | domino theory |
| In ___________________________ local rulers are allowed to maintain their positions of authority and status in a new colonial setting. | indirect rule |
| A general distrust of the British by Indian soldiers, plus specific rumors that their religious beliefs were being deliberately disrespected, led to the ____________________. | Sepoy Mutiny |
| Conditions driving colonization by major European countries were racism, national prestige, the search for markets for manufactured goods and the need to obtain ____________________. | raw materials |
| In ______________________ local elites were removed from power and replaced with a new set of officials brought from the colonizing country. | direct rule |
| In the ________________________, the United States guaranteed the independence of the new Latin American nations and warned against any intervention in the Americas. | Monroe Doctrine |
| ____________________________ is the extension of a nation’s power over other lands including direct control over vast territories. | imperialism |
| Before the Industrial Revolution, cloth was woven by individuals in their rural homes - a production method known as ___________________________. | cottage industry |
| The domination of ___________________________ in much of Europe after the French Revolution led to liberal and nationalist calls for change that resulted in the Revolutions of 1848. | conservatism |
| _____________________________ practiced realpolitik , which was a theory of politics based on practical matters rather than theory or ethics. | Otto con Bismarck |
| The pitiful conditions created by the Industrial Revolution gave rise to ____________________ in which society owns and controls the means of production. | socialism |
| According the ________________________ , the great powers of Europe had the right to send armies into countries where there were revolutions in order to restore legitimate monarchs to power | principle of intervention |
| Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote ___________________________________ because they were appalled at the horrible conditions in factories. | The Communist Manifesto |
| In the Second Industrial Revolution _______________, chemicals, electricity, and petroleum led the way to new industrial frontiers. | steel |
| Although they made up only 5 percent of the population in the early 1900s, the __________________ controlled 30 to 40 percent of the wealth. | new elite |
| Czar Nicholas II was forced to abandon absolute rule and create the ________________ in response to the growing discontent and opposition to his rule that led to the Revolution of 1905. | Duma |
| Concerns over Germany’s policies in Europe, Great Britain, France, and Russia had an understanding called the ______________________________. | Triple Entente |
| At the beginning of 1900, bands of Chinese roamed the country killing missionaries and Chinese Christians as well as foreign businessmen. This was known as the ____________________. | Boxer Rebellion |
| Europeans who lived by their own laws while on Chinese soil practiced ___________________________. | extraterritoriality |
| In 1899, U.S. secretary of state John Hay proclaimed that all major states with economic interests in China had agreed that the country should have an _________________________________. | Open Door Policy |
| The ________________________________ signed in 1918 ended Russia’s involvement in World War I. | Brest-Litovsk |
| The ____________________________ were a Serbian terrorist organization that wanted Bosnia to be free of Austria-Hungary and to become part of a large, independent Serbian kingdom. | Black Hand |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire were know as the ___________________________ after the Ottoman Empire came into WWI on Germany’s side in 1914. | Central Powers |
| President Wilson’s basis for a peace settlement was known as the “____________________.” | Fourteen Points |
| The development of ________________________ baffled military leaders who had been trained to fight wars of movement. | trench warfare |
| The return of the use of unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany brought the ____________________________ into WWI in 1917. | United States |
| World War I involved a complete mobilization of resources and people that affected the lives of all citizens in the warring countries - a situation called ________________________. | total war |
| During the 1920s, many countries in ____________________ became independent republics, but their economies were often dependent on large, wealthy nations. | Central America |
| The Indian independence movement identified with ______________________ was secular, Western, and modern. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| _______________________ is the deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group. | genocide |
| Chinese communist leader _________________________ was convinced that a Chinese revolution would be driven by the poverty-stricken peasants in the countryside. | Mao Zendog |
| President Mustafa Kemal, also known as ___________________, transformed Turkey into a modern, secular state. | Ataturk |
| At the _____________________conference, Truman demanded free elections throughout Eastern Europe. | Potsdam |
| During the _________________________ Germany bombed British cities nightly in hope of breaking British morale. | Battle of Britain |
| Hitler demanded that Germany be given the ____________________ in Czechoslovakia because it was inhabited largely by Germans. | Sudetenland |
| On December 7, 1941, Japanese aircraft attacked the U.S. naval base at __________________________. | Pearl Harbor |
| At the ________________ Conference, the Big Three agreed to the creation of the United Nations. | Yalta |
| The policy of giving in to Hitler’s demands before World War II has been called __________________. | appeasement |
| The turning point of the war in Asia came June 4, 1942 at the Battle of ___________________. | Midway Island |
| Germany got a clear path to invade Poland after Germany and the Soviet Union signed the ___________________________. | Nazi-Soviet Nonagression Pact |
| On _____________________ forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower landed on the beaches in Normandy to start the Allied invasion of Europe. | D-Day |
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