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Modern World History
Final Exam Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the characteristics of totalitarian regimes? | censorship, mass arrests, secret police |
| What is fascism? | fascism is a government that promotes extreme nationalism |
| What national crisis led to Hitler's rise to power? | depression |
| Why did the treaty or Versailles anger so many Germans? | They were forced to pay reparations |
| Who is associated with the rise of fascism in Italy? | Mussolini associated with the rise of fascism |
| What did they fear? | they feared communism |
| What was the Rape of Nanking? | Japanese abuse of Chinese civil right before and during WWII |
| What was the purpose of Stalin's Five Year Plans? | to modernize Russia |
| What was the Great Purge? | putting Russians into labor camps |
| What one characteristic was common to Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist Soviet Union? | They all had one party system that denied human rights |
| Anschluss | annexation of Austrillia |
| Sudetenland | land taken by Hitler, lost in WWII |
| Munich Conference | Chamberland agreed to appease Hitler with the Sudetenland |
| Appeasement | cooperating with an aggressor to keep the peace |
| Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact | a pact to divide Poland |
| Start of WWII | invasion of Poland by Germany and invasion of china by Japan |
| Allied powers | Great Britain and France |
| Axis Powers | Italy, Japan and Germany |
| Blitzkrieg | Lightning war |
| Operation Barbarossa | German invasion of the soviet union |
| Battle of Stalingrad | the turning point of WWII when the soviets defeated the germans |
| D-Day | Invasion of Normandy France |
| Island Hopping | A strategy of going to one island to another |
| Kamikaze | Japanese suicide pilots |
| What event led to the US officially entering WWII? | Pearl Harbor |
| What violations of civil rights was committed by the US during WWII against Japanese Americans? | Japanese were placed in internment camps |
| What caused Japan to surrender? | When the atom bombs were dropped on Hiroshima & Nagaska |
| What ended WWII in the pacific? | The Japanese surrendered to the US |
| Genocide | the mass killing of people based on race religion or social class to illiminate them |
| Ghettos | a place where jews were forced to live |
| Kristallnacht | night of broken glass |
| Final Solution | the final plan to kill all the Jews in Europe |
| Mein Kampf | Book written by Hitler in jail |
| Anti-Semitism | Hitlers belief about jewish people |
| In what ways did people resist during the holocaust? | escaping, surviving and destroying Natzi buildings |
| What international organization was created after WWII to promote peace, protect human rights, and improve quality of life for developing nations? | The united nations |
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