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8th grd final exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nationalism | intense loyalty to a country or group |
| central powers WW1 | Austria- Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire |
| Allied Powers WW1 | US, France, Britian, Italy |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | his assassination was a short term cause of WW1, Was assassinated in Serbia by Bosnian nationals |
| Treaty of Versaille | ended WW1 dealt harshly with Germany, considered a contributing factor to WW2 because of the economic impact on Germany |
| League Of Nations | group of nations formed to prevent further wars supported by Wilson but not congress so US did not join |
| Fourteen Points | Wilson's plan for points, League of Nations was the 14th |
| Nineteenth Amendment | Gave Women the right to vote |
| Flappers | liberated women of 1920s |
| Prohibition | Volstead act, it banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of liquor |
| Great Depression | a period of economic depression in the 1930s |
| new deal | Roosevelt's plan to improve the economy |
| on margin | borrowing money to buy stock |
| America's presidents during WW1 | Roosevelt and Truman |
| Churchill | Britain's prime minster |
| Stalin | leader of the soviet union |
| Mussolini | Italy's leader |
| Allied powers WW2 | US, France, Britain, Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers | Germany, Italy |
| Anti- Semitism | hatred of Jews |
| Pearl Harbor | location of Japanese surprise attack on the us, more than 3,400 Americans were killed |
| Manchuria | part of china invaded by the Japanese during the 1930s |
| Munich Conference | Conference where appeasement was used and therefore Hitler was given the Studetenland |
| Stalingrad | city in the soviet union where the battle was a turning point in the war |
| Hiroshima | city where a nuclear bomb was dropped first |
| MacArthur | Allied commander in the Phillippines |
| Eisenhower | American general in Europe |
| Bataan | location of a deadly march of American prisoners of war |
| nuremburg | location of Nazi war trials |
| iron curtain | division between communist and non communist Europe |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, defense org |
| Marshal Plan | Economic aid to war torn Europe |
| Truman Doctrine | aid to countries fighting communism |
| Plessy vs Ferguosn | Supreme court decision upholding segregation |
| Brown vs Board of Education | Supreme Court decision ruling school segregation unconstitutional |
| civil disobedience | peacefully breaking the law |
| Dr. MLK Jr | assassinated on April 4, 1968 |
| Bay of Pigs | a failed invasion of Cuba in Which we tried to overthrow Castro |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | When the soviets tried to install missile launching sites in Cuba and America kept the away |
| Indochina | area in southeast Asia controlled by France, includes Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam |
| Vietcong | pro-communist forces in Vietnam |
| domino theory | belief that if one country in southeast Asia fell to communism, all would |
| Nikita Khrushchev | soviet leader during Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Hot line | communication connection between Moscow and Washington, DC |
| Neil Armstrong | first person to land on the moon |
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