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World History (B)
Study Guide for final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did Stalin initiate Five Year Plan in the Soviet Union? | To transform russia in an industrial society |
| What was Prime Minister Chamberlain's Policy of appeasement? | It was Chamberlain's belife in Hitlers promisis |
| What is the Sudetenland? | The area of Czechoslovakia that Hittler was givin |
| Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany? | |
| What is the "Mukden Incident"? | An attack on Japanese railwayby japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese |
| What did Japan need most in 1940? | Indochina's raw materials or US oil or scrap iron |
| Why was the evacuation at Dunkirk so important to the Allies? | |
| What is the meaning of blitzberieg? | Hittlers form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks |
| Why did Hittler decide to invade the soviet Union? | To secure land and slavic slaves to strengthen the Reich |
| What was the outcome at the battle of Stalingrad? | The entire German Sixth Army was lost |
| What was the significance of the battle of Midway Island? | It was the turning point of the war in Asia |
| Who is Heinrich Himmler? | he administered th Nazi's final solution |
| What is the meaning of Einsatzgruppen? | |
| What ethnic groups were victims of the holocaust? | jews, slavic people, and gypsies |
| what was the outcome of the Tehran Conference? | |
| What did the allies insist at the Yalta Confrence? | |
| What was the goal of president Truman at the Potsdam Conference? | he wanted freely elected governments |
| Why did president Truman decide to use atomic bombs? | |
| What was the gaol of the Marshall Plan? | They wanted to restore the economic stability of Europe |
| What is the definition of the Cold War? | A period of political tension |
| When did Mao Zedong come to power in China? | |
| What was the objective of the Truman Doctrine? | to get money fot the nations threatened by communist expansion |
| Nasser precipitated an international crisis by doing what? | |
| What are consequences of the Six Day War? | |
| What is Pan-Africanism? | |
| What is the strategy behind the Brezhnev Doctrine? | |
| How did America react to the launch of Sputnik I in1957? | |
| What was the "Praque Spring" in Czechoslovakia? | |
| What was the objective of McCarthyism in the U.S. in the 1950's? | |
| What is the strategy for the foreign policyof detente? | |
| How did Gorbachev plan on reforming the Sovient Union? | |
| What caused the tention between Serbia and Kosovo during the Yugoslav Wars? | |
| Why was the European Union formed? | |
| How did Margaret Thatcher lose political power? | after property taxes with a national flat-rate tax was rejectd she lost political power |
| Why was the North America Free Trade Agreement established? | |
| What caused the rebellion in Chechnya? | |
| What happened on December 7, 1941 and what was it called? | Japanese launched a surprise attackon US pacific fleet on Pearl Harpor |
| What is meant by Total War? | A complete mobilization of resources of people |
| Why did Truman want to avoid an invasion in Japan? | he thougth Americans would suffer heavy losses |
| Who were the main victims in the holocaust? | |
| What nation had an economic miracle after WWII? | West Germany |
| What is policy toward the sovient union called? | containment |
| What two religious groups did the Britsh government try to address in the fighting in Norther Ireland? | catholics and Protestants |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | to prevent east germany from defecting to west germany |
| Which nation declined economicaly after WWII? | Great Britain |
| What does Perestroika mean? | Russian word that means restructuring used to describe the reform movement |
| What did president Carter do to protest the Soviet invation of afghanistan? | by canceling US participation in the 1980 olympic games |
| In 1980 the sovient Union suffered from what kinds of problems? | a declining economy, rising infant mortality, bad working conditions |
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Valeria Medrano
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