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World History Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | Pride in country, country over individual |
| Who is associated with unification of Italy and Germany? | Otto von Bismark- was able to because of nationalism |
| Berlin Conference | European powers met to discuss how they would take over Africa, divided African land among the Europeans |
| Effects of imperialism | War, famine, start of new civilizations, trade, rebellion, angry people, people's culture changes |
| Motives for imperialism | wanted resources land, nationalism, trading, to spread religion |
| White man's burden | European nations felt the need to bring their culture to uncivilized land (Asia/ Africa) and make people white |
| Bolsheviks | Russian communists who took over government and went against Czar Nicholas |
| Russian Revolution | Uprising of Russian communists, killed Czar Nicholas and his family, took over government |
| Causes of World war 1 | assassination of archduke ferdinand, militarism, alliances, imperialism, nationalism |
| Who assassinated Archduke ferdinand? | Gavrilo Princip (Black Hand) |
| Balkan region- why referred to as "powder keg of Europe"? | Gun powder, In serbia-- diff ethnicities wanted to be nationsm this German imperialism is refferred to powder keg bc small ethnicities were angry with large ethnicities and fought for power. |
| Impact of Versailles treaty on Germany | made German money worthless, hyperinflatiion, German reparations, depression, rise of hitler |
| Communism- society over individual- everyone gets same resources | Type of government |
| Allied powers in WW1 | France, UK, US, USSR |
| Central powers (AXIS) | Ottoman empire, Germany, Austria hungary, italy |
| War of attrition | repeated attacks to wear opponent down, high casualties and ending in bloody stalemate |
| trench warfare | no-mans land inbetween trenches, used for fighting in WW1 |
| New weapons of WW1 | tanks, u-boats, guns, chemical warfare, submarines, planes, barbed wire |
| Nurembourg laws | Legally allowed discrimination against Jews |
| Nuremburg Trials | Punished for war crimes, hearing held to punish nazis |
| Stalin 5 year plan | Russua economy improves over a 5 year span |
| WHy did Japan expand before WW2? | imperialism leads to gain of resources, Meiji restoration-period of Japanese hsitory,a n attempt to make Japan |
| fascism | capitalist, nationalist, violence and terror |
| Nazi-Soviet Pact split which country? | poland, split by hitler and stalin (nonaggression pact) |
| Pearl harbor | led US into war, attack on dec. 7 |
| What starts WW2? | MAIN, plus appeasement and germany fighting treaty of versailles |
| Where did D-Day occur | Normandy france |
| What happened at Kristallnacht- Night of the Broken glass? | Nazis broke glass in Jewish shopkeeper's windows |
| Who commited the holocast | nazis and hitler |
| Hearings held to punish nazis | nuremburg trials |
| Tension between RUssia and US after WW2 | COld War |
| Nato | against communism |
| warsaw | pro-communism |
| east europe | filled with communists |
| arms race | build your own weapons |
| WHy did Korean war happen? | North korea invaded south korea to make it communist |
| ethnic conflict | same geographic location- diff ethnicities (rwanda, ww1) |
| global issues | UN (genocide, human rights, issues between countries), UN makes peace, resolves these issues |
| UN? | pacekeepers |
| league of nations | primitive UN |
| UN purpose | to prevent world war |
| security council | US, UK,USSR< France (allied) |
| Energy sources | cold war- soviets against US, people try to look for alternative sources of energy |
| Atlantic charter | US and UN coming together to outline their goals |
| Yalta conference | free elections and stuff |
| potsdam conference | discussed how to divide and conquer |
| containment | consisted of iron curtain, restricted communism |
| COmmon themes of European imperialism | WHiteman's burden, rick take over poor, too much power |
| COnsequences of european influence in china | china lost money in opium wars, chinese revolution, chinese are being exploited |
| Triple entente members | UK, US, USSR France, Italy |
| Triple alliance | Germany, AUstria-Hungary, Ottoman empire, Bulgaria, ROmania |
| What type of fighting developed in the Western front? | trench warfare |
| Peace keeping group that Woodrow WIlson proposed | league of nations |
| DId Russian imperialism grow after Russian revolution? | no russia only looks afte ritself |
| Lenins political party | Bolsheviks/ communist/marxist |
| league of nations | defense, couldn't punish each other, leave themselves |
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