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MCC WHis Final Dange
MCC W. His Final Dangel
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lead Mexican forces north into Mexican owned Texas to stop a rebellion of white settlers and lost the battle of San Jacinto, was defeated- also involved in fight at ALAMO | Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna |
| Theory of evolution, survival of the fittest, all forms of life including humans evolved from earlier living forms of life | Charles Darwin |
| Formed the most militant organization for women in Britain call the women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) | Emmeline Pankhurst |
| Creator of the Periodic Table a chart on which all known elements are arranged in order of weight, lightest to heaviest | Dmitri Mendeleev |
| Leader of Zioism (a religion) | Theodor Herzl |
| Father of nuclear physics | Ernest Rutherford |
| Pogroms | Organized campaigns of violence against Jews |
| Psychology | Study of the human mind & behavior |
| Parliament | British system of grovern-unicameral-consists of the House of Lords and House of Commons |
| Zionism | Movement in 1890"s promoting Jewish self-determination and establishment of a Jewish State in ancient Jewish homeland in Palestine |
| Galapagos Islands | Location where Darwin witnessed the Theory of Evolution-survival of the fittest |
| Henry Ford | Used assembly line and interchangeable parts to build cars most people could afford |
| Alexander G. Bell | Inventor of Telephone |
| Ivan Pavlov | Known for his work with classical conditioning with dogs-a hungry dog trained to associate the sound of a bell with food salivated at the sound even in the absence of food |
| Guglielmo Marconi | Created First Radio |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of light bulb, and phonograph |
| Nikola Tesla | Best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current electricity supply system |
| Sigmund Freud | father of psychoanalysis-stated suppressed memories, desires, and impulses shape human behavior |
| Anti-semitism | Prejudice, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews |
| Suffrage | Right to vote |
| Dreyfus Affair | Controversy in France over the false arrest and imprisonment of Jewish Army officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, for supposedly selling military secrets to Germany |
| Evolution | Darwin's theory-survival of the fittest |
| House of Lords - British Parliament | Members either inherited their ser or were appointed |
| Manifest Destiny | The US has the right & duty to rule North America from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean |
| House of Commons - British Parliament | Elected by 5% of the population consisting of men who owned substantial amounts of land |
| Self Determination | Allowing people to decide for themselves under what government they wished to live |
| Militarism | Glorifying military power and keeping an army prepared for war |
| Schlieffen Plan | WWI German battle plan called for defeating French in West then rushing East to fight Russian |
| Armistice | Agreement to stop fighting-WWI ended Nov. 11, 1918 |
| Propaganda | One sised information designed to persuade people to keep up maral and support for the war |
| U-Boats | Submarines |
| Nationalism | Loyality to one's country and the belief that one's country is better and more important that other countries |
| No Mans Land | Area of land between the trenches of battling troops |
| Black Hand | Secret military society, a member of this group assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo starting WWI |
| Versailles | Treaty between Germany and Allied powers on June 28,1919, created the League of Nations,punished Germany by making Germany pay reparations to the Allies |
| Belgium | Country Hitler marched through to avoid the Maginot Line in France to circle behind allied troops and attack |
| Treaty signed between new Bolshevik leader Lenin of Russia and Germany ending the war between them on March 3, 1918 | Brest-Litovsk |
| An event that sparked the outbreak of World War I, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Josef and heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is shot to death along with his wife by a Serbian nationalist in on June 28, 1914. | Sarajevo, Bosnia |
| Italian leader during WWI - "Big 4" member | Vittorio Orlando |
| "Red Baron", a German fighter pilot with the Imperial German Army Air Service during World War I, considered the top ace of the war, officially credited with 80 air combat victories. | Manfred van Richtofen |
| US Pres. during WWI-"Big 4" member - Had the fourteen point plan that included the League of Nations that he hoped would be adopted at the end of WWI in a treaty with Germany | Woodrow Wilson |
| Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWI-"Big 4" member | David Lloyd George |
| America's most successful fighter Ace of WWI | Eddie Richenbacker |
| French President during WWI-"Big 4" member | George Clemenceau |
| German Nazi leader during WWI and WWII | Adolf Hitler |
| Longest reigning Japanese monarch-in control of Japan during WWII | Hirohito |
| Italian Fascist leader | Benito Mussolini |
| Prime Minister of Japan when attack on Pearl Harbor took place | Hediki Tojo |
| "My Struggles" book written by Hitler while in jail outlining his plans for Germany | Mein Kampf |
| Country invaded by Japanese for its natural resources much needed to rebuilt supplies during WWII | Manchuria |
| "Living Space"- refers to territory east of Germany that Hitler wanted to take and make it part of Germany | Lebensraum |
| Fascist policies of the National Socialist German Workers' party, based on totalitarianism, a belief in racial superiority and state control of industry | Nazism |
| The land in the northern, southwest, and western areas of Czechoslovakia which were inhabited mostly by German speakers | Sudentenland |
| Land invaded by Germany bringing Britian and France into WWII | Poland |
| First pilot to make the journey from New York to Paris without stopping, nickname "Lucky Lindy", his airplane "Spirit of St. Louis" | Charles Lindbergh |
| German physicist most famous for his Special and General Theories of Relativity, hated war and wrote letter warning Pres. Franklin D Roosevelt that the Germany may make an atomic bomb before the US and would be happy to use it | Albert Einstein |
| Lightning War-German strategy-come in fast with tank and planes, hit hard, and leave fast | Blitzkrieg |
| evacuation, code-named Operation Dynamo, also known as the Miracle of Dunkirk, was Large evacuation of 300,000 Allied soldiers in 800 boats from the beaches and harbors of Dunkirk, France, between 27 May and 4 June 1940 | Dunkirk |
| Area of northern and western France occupied by Germany by 1940 | Occupied France |
| City where the government of Free France - the southern and eastern part of France - was located until 1942, when Germans took it over | Vichy France |
| Eastern and southern France still controlled by the French government | Free France |
| Leader of Free French forces | Charles de Gaulle |
| Prime Minister of England WWII-coined phrase "Iron Curtain" | Winston Churchill |
| "Operation Sea Lion"- large attack of Great Britain fought exclusively by German Air Force | Battle of Britian |
| German tank commander, fought Allies in North Africa | Erwin Rommel |
| Aug. 14, 1941, agreement outlining strategies of WWII between US Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill | Atlantic Charter |
| Program under which the United States supplied Great Britain, the USSR, Free France, the Republic of China, and other Allied nations with materiel between 1941 and August 1945 | Lend-Lease Act |
| US military base in Hawaii bombed by Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| Commander in Chief of the Japanese fleet during the first half of WWII | Isoroku Yamamato |
| Turning point of WWII in Pacific-three Japanese aircraft carrier sunk and most of the best Japanese pilots dead | Battle of Midway |
| Commander of US Forces in Far East in WWII | Douglas MacArthur |
| WWII strategy to bypass heavily fortified Japanese islands and instead concentrate the limited Allied resources on strategically important islands that were not well defended but capable of supporting the drive to the main islands of Japan. Contents | Island Hopping |
| Systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis | Holocaust |
| Caucasian, blue eyed, blond haired people Hitler thought was the perfect race that should occupy Germany | Aryans |
| "Night of Broken Glass", nights that Jews were killed and their property destroyed in German occupied territories, Nov 9-10, 1938 | Kristalinacht |
| Systematic killing of an entire race of people | Genocide |
| Supreme Commander of Allied Forces in Europe during WWII | Dwight Eisenhower |
| Invasion of Normandy Beach in France-D-Day | Operation Overlord |
| Last major German offensive against American forces in Europe-Largest and bloodiest battle fought by US forces in WWII | Battle of the Bulge |
| Japanese suicide pilots | Kamikazes |
| Location of the raising of the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima | Mt. Surbachi |
| "Operation Iceberg", largest amphibious battle in WWII, last island taken in island hopping strategy to get close enough to Japan to strike | Okinawa |
| Destroyed by the dropping of first atomic bomb in WWII | Hiroshima |
| Destroyed by the dropping of the second atomic bomb three days after the dropping of the first bomb-then Japan surrendered | Nagasaki |
| Alliances | |
| British passenger ship sunk by German U-Boat on May 7, 1915 | Lusitania |
| Imperialism | |
| Countries devoted all their resources to the war effort | Total War |
| Wilhelm II | |
| Ruthless leader of Bosheviks in Russia who became the leader of Russia | Vladimir Lenin |
| Bosnian Serb who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie,in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 igniting WWI | Gavrillo Princip |
| Archduke of Austria who was assassinated thus igniting WWI | Franz Ferdinand |
| Declining to enter into alliances, foreign economic commitments, international agreements, and devote the entire efforts of one's country to its own advancement and remain at peace by avoiding foreign entanglements and responsibilities. | Isolationism |
| People are completely controlled by the government and are not allowed to disagree with the government | Fascism |
| Money that a country or group that loses a war pays because of the damage, injury, deaths, etc. | Reparations |
| First of the aggressive military actions of Nazi Germany ,on 7 March 1936, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, German troops marched in and took over, land North East of Germany | Rhineland |
| Making concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict | Appeasement |
| British Prime Minister, who at the beginning of WWII, allowed Hitler to take areas in Czechoslovakia in hopes that Germany would not pull Europe into another war | Neville Chamberlain |
| US President at beginning of WWII | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| WWI Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary |
| WWI Allied Powers | Great Britain, France, Russia |
| U.S. ship where Japan officially surrendered to the Allies ending WWII | USS Missouri |
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