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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalin's 5 year plans were intended to transform Russia not what? | and 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 invasion of what economy. |
| Sudetenland | the area of Czechoslovakia that Hitler was given |
| Britain and France declared war on Germany 2 days after Hitler's invasion of what country? | poland |
| The Muken Incident | an attack on 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 effort by the royal navy and private civilians evacuated 338,000 allied troops |
| Blitzkrieg | Hitlers 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 strengthen 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 est. 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? | the germany surrenders unconditionally |
| The Marchall Plan: | designated to restore the economic stability of europeans nations after WWII |
| What 3 groups were victim 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 Nazis final solution |
| Why 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 gov'ts |
| 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 communist 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 ? | they held free elections to determine their futures |
| What did Egyptian colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser do in 1956? | He seized the suez canal company britain and france |
| Name 3 areas that Isael gained control over during th 6 day war | sinai peninsula, west bank territory and the golan heights |
| What policy did the US adopt toward the Soviet Union tos top the spread of communism? | containment |
| What view does Pan-Africanism promote? | black africans share a common identity |
| 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 missles |
| Who was fighting in Northern Ireland throughout the 1960s and 1970s that the British govt struggled to address? | catholics and protestants |
| Alexander Dubcek | A communist leader who initiated the "Prague Spring" with a series of reform in Czechoslovakia |
| Joseph McCarthy | the US senator responsible for the anti-communist movement known as the "Reds scare" |
| Detente | 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 ecnomically after WWII? | Great Britain |
| In what state did Vladimir Putin used military force to suppress a rebellion ? | chechyna |
| The North American Free Trade Agreement | sought to est. cooperative trade guidelines between Canada, the US and Mexico |
| Why Margaret Thatcher resign? | after her plan to replace local property taxes with a national flat-rate was rejected |
| One of European Unions first goals was the est. of what? | a common European currency |
| Gorbachev realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | Political reform |
| Gorbachev ha dado some serious problems was his reforms. One was... | Mutli-ethnic republics |
| Perestroika | The Russian word that means restructuring used to describe the reform movement 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 decline economy, rising infant mortality, and poor working conditions |
| New tensión arose between Bosnia and Serbia when Serbia refuse to all whom, to continental to exist as an autonomous province | Kosovo |
| What caused the states to join the Allie in fighting WWII? | The German unrestricted us of submarine warfare |
| Name at least 3 thing considered a major cause of WWII | The growth, militarism and internal dissent |
| What kid of warfare was characterized in the western front that kept both sides in virtually the same positions for 4 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 I an attempt to end Russia's involvement in the war? | He signed the treaty of Brest-Litovsk with germany. This gave up a lot of Russian territory |
| What did president Wilson argue for at the pars peace conference? | A league of nations to prevent future wars |
| Treaty of versátiles | Under this treaty, Germany was forced to for war damage, give up land to a new polis state and return alsace and Lorraine to France |
| Nuremberg laws | Laws excluding jews from German citizenship |
| Fascist gov't | A strong central government led by a dictatorial ruler |
| What happened on November 9, 1938 that was left by the Nazi's was destructive rampage against German jews? | The kristallnacht |
| What as Hitler's goal? | To create a 3rd Reich, or German empire |
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