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Final 2nd semester
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Comitern | Encouraged world-wide communist revolution |
| Kulaks | Were a class of wealthy farmers whom Stalin destroyed |
| Kellog-Briand Pact | Renounced war as an instrument of policy |
| Gestapo | Nazi secret police or Brown Shirts |
| Totalitarian State | Is a one-party dictatorship that tries to regulate all aspects of its citizens' lives |
| Kristallnacht | "Night of Broken Glass" |
| Black Shirts | Were militant supporters of Benito Mussolini |
| Flappers | Were liberated young women of the Jazz Age |
| Surrealism | Was an artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious |
| Gulag | A system of over 90 brutal Russian labor camps |
| Harlem Renaissance | An African American cultural awakening |
| Prohibition | U.S. ban on the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages |
| New Deal | A massive package of economic and social programs |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader |
| Third Reich | Hitler believed his German government would rule Europe for a thousand years |
| Nuremberg Laws | Revoked Jews' German citizenship |
| What was the result of prohibition, which was made law in the United States in 1919? | An increase in organized crime. |
| How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | It condemned Japan's actions but did nothing to stop it. |
| U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of depression relief called the | New Deal. |
| What was the key characteristics of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | Supremacy of the state. |
| On Stalin's collectives, | The government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed/ |
| Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of | Russification |
| What 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided U.S. loans to Germany? | Dawes Plan |
| In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which | Deprived Jews of German citizenship |
| Which statement best characterizes the mood of much of the world at the end of World War I? | The sense of optimism has been shattered. |
| The country that emerged from World War I in the best financial shape was | United States |
| One important cause of the Great Depression was | Overproduction and falling demand in the United States. |
| What 1929 event aggravated the economic decline in the United States? | The stock market crash |
| One appeal of Fascism to Italians was its | Promise of an independent judicial system |
| In what ways did Fascists differ from Communists? | Communists wanted to spread communism internationally, Fascists wanted to strengthen their own nation. |
| How did Hitler come to power? | He was elected |
| Site of Allied war strategy meeting | Yalta |
| The state of tension after WWII | Cold War |
| Name for the German airforce | Luftwaffe |
| Program to develop the Atomic bomb | Manhattan Project |
| The Soviet Union formed a military alliance by this name | Warsaw Pact |
| Location of the first U.S. atomic bombing | Hiroshima |
| German cities in which Allies held war crime trials | Nuremberg |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan | Axis Powers |
| Giving into an aggressor's demands to maintain peace | Appeasement |
| Military alliance of the United States, Canada, and nine European Allies | NATO |
| Women factory workers | Rosie the Riviter |
| Allowed the U.S. president to aid the American allies | Lend-Lease Act |
| The Allied Invasion of France | D-Day |
| "Lightning War" | Blitzkrieg |
| Site of the major Russian victory over German troops | Stalingrad |
| Hitler's plan for the Union of Austria and Germany | Anschluss |
| What was the one reason giver for dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | To end the war without invading Japan |
| Why did Germany invade the Soviet Union? | Hitler wanted the country's natural resources |
| What was important about the Battle of the Bulge? | It delayed the Allied advance from the west |
| The U.S. strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific | Allowed the U.S. to gradually move north toward Japan |
| Hitler's blitzkrieg tactics | Allowed Germany to take over much of Europe by 1940 |
| The Truman Doctrine stated the United States would | help rebuild Western Europe |
| How did Germany's location affect it's chances to win the war? | It had to fight on several fronts |
| "The Big Three" were | Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill |
| Hitler's "Final Solution" was his plan to | Ruthlessly murder all European Jews |
| Midway and the Coral Sea were | Sites of the United States victories over Japan |
| What events marked the beginning of WWII? | The German invasion of Poland |
| What was one of Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II? | To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments |
| The belief that one communist victory would lead to many others | Domino Theory |
| Nations that are stronger than other powerful nations | Superpowers |
| American-supported ruler of South Vietnam | Ngo Dinh Diem |
| Communist ruler of North Vietnam after 1954 | Ho Chi Minh |
| Brought on high taxes and greater government regulation | Welfare state |
| Seen as a particular threat to the balance of terror during the SALT talks | Anti-ballistic missiles |
| Led the Cuban Revolution in 1959 | Fidel Castro |
| The Soviet leader after Stalin | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Brought the world to brink of nuclear war in 1962 | Cuban missile crisis |
| A relaxaqtion of tensions | Detente |
| What aspect of the Cold War arms race made it so terrifying? | The weapons were more powerful than ever before. |
| A "red scare" was the fear of | Communists in the United States. |
| After World War II, the United States offered assistance to war-torn European nations through which of the following? | The Marshall Plan |
| The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were social reform programs led by which leader? | Mao Zedong |
| What was the result of Gorbachev's perestroika? | Shortages grew worse and prices soared |
| During the Korean War, which nation provided hundreds of thousands of troops to help North Korea? | China |
| Which alliance was dedicated to the security of communist nations in Europe during the Cold War? | The Warsaw Pact |
| The purpose of the SALT talks and the START treaty was | To limit the number of nuclear weapons help by the superpowers |
| The American strategy under detente was to | Restrain the Soviets through diplomatic agreements |
| What kind of government did Japan adopt after World War II? | A parliamentary democrady |
| When the North Koreans overran South Korea in the summer of 1950, United Nations forces stopped their advance at | The Pusan Perimeter |
| During the Vietnam War. the Tet Offensive | Turned American public opinion against the war |
| The Khmer Rouge was responsible for | Committing genocide in Cambodia |
| What conflict was called the Soviet Union's "Vietnam"? | The war in Afghanistan |
| After the Soviet Union split up and communism was defeated in Easter Europe, China accelerated its embrace of | Capitalism |
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