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1945B World History
1945B World History NCP Flash Cards for final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalin's Five Year Plans were intended to transform Russia into what? | an industrial society |
| Hitler was confident that Western states who signed the Treaty of Versailles would not have to use what to maintain it? | force |
| Great Britain's appeasement policy | It was based on Prime Minister Chamberlain's belief in Adolf Hitler's promises |
| Sudetenland | The area of Czechoslovakia that Hitler demanded and was given. |
| Britain and France declared war on Germany two days after Hitler's invasion of what country? | Poland |
| The "Muken incident" | and attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide which ones it needed more: | Indochina's raw materials or US oil and scrap iron |
| What significant event happened on Dec. 7, 1941? | Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor |
| What happened at Dunkirk? | Heroic efforts by the Royal Navy and private civilians evacuated 338,000 Allied troops |
| blitzkrieg | Hitler's form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union | to secure land and Slavic slaves to stregnthen the Reich |
| The Battle of Stalingrad | The entire German Sixth Army was lost |
| The Battle of Midway Island | the turning point of the war in Asia that established US naval superiority over Japan |
| Total War | It involved a complete mobilization of resources of people |
| What did the USSR, the US, and Great Britain all insist on at Yalta? | That German surrenders unconditionally |
| The Tehran Conference in 1943 | set in motion a plan that would result in German being divided along a north-south line into East and West |
| The Marshall Plan | designed to restore the economic stability of European nations after WWII |
| What three groups were victims of the Holocaust | Jews, Slavic people, Gypsies |
| What did the Nazis build when the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow? | special extermination camps in Poland |
| Heinrich Himmler | administered the Nazi's Final Solution |
| Why did Truman want to avoid an invasion of Japan? | He believed that Americans would suffer heavy losses |
| What did Truman demand from Eastern Europe at the Potsdam Conference? | freely elected governments |
| Warsaw Pact | sought to create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations |
| What did the Truman Doctrine state that the US would provide to nations threatened by Communist expansion? | money |
| US fears about the spread of communism increased when what country became a Communist nation in 1949? | China |
| Cold War | A period of political tension following WWII |
| Experienced an "economic miracle" after WWII? | West Germany |
| What did US and Great Britain believe about the liberated nations of Eastern Europe? | That they held free elections to determine their futures |
| What did Egyptian colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser do in 1956? | seize the Suez Canal company from Britain and France |
| Name three areas that Israel gained control over during the the Six-Day War: | Sinai Peninsula, West Bank territory, and Goan Heights |
| What policy did the US adopt toward the Soviet Union to stop the spread of communism? | containment |
| What view does Pan-Africanism promote? | black Africans share a common idenity |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | The policy that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if communism was threatened in another Communist nation |
| What did many Americans fear when Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957? | That the Soviet Union was ahead of the US in the production of missiles. |
| Alexander Dubcek | A communist leader who initiated the "Prague Spring" with a series of reform in Czechoslovakia |
| Who was fighting in Northern Ireland throughout the 1960s and 1970s that the British government struggled to address? | Catholics and Protestants |
| Joseph McCarthy | The US senator responsible for the anti-Communist movement known as the "Red Scare" |
| détente | refers to improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the 1970s |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | to prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany |
| Which nation declined economically after WWII? | Great Britain |
| In what state did Vladimir Putin used military force to suppress a rebellion? | Checknya |
| The North American Free trade Agreement | sought to establish cooperative trade guidelines between Canada, the US, and Mexico. |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | After her plan to replace local property taxes with a national flat-rate tax was rejected. |
| One of European Union's first goals was the establishment of what? | a common European currency |
| Gorbachev realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | political reform |
| Gorbachev had some serious problems with his reforms. One was... | mullti-ethnic republics |
| perestroika | the Russian word that means restructuring used to describe the reform movement led by Mikhail Gorbachev |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | by canceling US participation in the 1980 Olympic Games |
| By 1980 the Soviet Union was ailing from what? | a declining economy, rising infant mortality, and poor working conditions |
| New tension arose between Bosnia and Serbia when Serbia refuse to all whom to continue to exist as an autonomous province? | Kosovo |
| What caused the States to join the Allies in fighting WWI? | The Germans' unrestricted use of submarine warfare |
| Name at least three things considered a major cause of WWI? | The growth of Nationalism, Militarism, Internal Dissent |
| Who's military plan called for war on two fronts | General von Schlieffen |
| What kind of warfare was characterized in the Western Front that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for four years? | Trench Warfare |
| Who were the Central Powers? | Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire |
| Militarism | The aggressive preparation for war which was growing along with nations' armies |
| What fatal mistake did Kerensky make? | Deciding to continue the war |
| What did Lenin do in an attempt to an Russia's involvement in the war? | Signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. This gave up a lot of Russian territory. |
| What did President Wilson argue for at the Paris Peace Conference? | A League of Nations to prevent future wars |
| Treaty of Versailles | Under this Treaty, Germany was forced to pay for war damage, give up land to a new Polish state and return Alsace and Lorraine to France. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Laws excluding Jews from German citizenship. |
| Fascist Goverment | a strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler |
| What happened on November 9, 1938 that was led by the Nazis and was a destructive rampage against German Jews? | The Kristallnacht |
| What was Hitler's goal | To creat a Third Reich, or German Empire |
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Mrs. Stubbs
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