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World Studies EOC
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged | Reparations |
| Rapid increase of prices in post-WWI Germany | Hyperinflation |
| System of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state | Totalitarianism |
| An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization | Fascism |
| National Socialist German Workers Party, that took the Socialist idea of the community and applied it on a nationalist scale. The Nazi party wanted to unify Germany under a collective purpose. | Nazi Ideology |
| When an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized, heroic, and at times worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. | Cult of Personality |
| Break-up of a country over ethnic tensions after the Cold War ended | Yugoslav War |
| Systematic removal/killing of a group of people from a region | Ethnic Cleansing |
| Job seekers, guest workers, and refugees coming to Europe | Immigration |
| Group of countries that allows the free movement of resources and products | European Union |
| Common currency used in some European countries | Euro |
| Islamic attacks on Madrid, Spain and London, England | Terrorism |
| Former KGB officer, becomes president of Russia | Rise of Vladimir Putin |
| Policy of the United Kingdom and France to avoid war at all costs | Appeasement |
| Secret deal between Germany and the Soviet Union not to attack each other | Non-Aggression Pact |
| Country invaded on September 1, 1939; start of WWII | Poland |
| "Lightning War" of overwhelming German military power against an enemy | Blitzkrieg |
| Allied Powers | Alliance of the U.S., U.K., and the Soviet Union |
| Axis Powers | Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan |
| German plan to attack the Soviet Union that began June 22, 1941 | Operation Barbarossa |
| Final Solution | The Nazi policy of exterminating European Jews |
| Slaughter of European civilians, especially Jews, during WWII | Holocaust |
| Invasion of Normandy, France by the Allies on June 6, 1944/Operation Overlord | D-Day |
| Final fight of WWII in Europe won by the Soviets | Battle for Berlin |
| To be a superpower, a nation needs to have a strong economy, an overpowering military, immense international political power and, related to this, a strong national ideology. | Ideology of Superpowers |
| Imaginary wall that divided democratic and communist countries in Europe | Iron Curtain |
| Flying in supplies to a city after the Soviets had cut off access to it | Berlin Blockade/Airlift |
| Idea that if one country goes Communist, others around it would, too | Domino Effect |
| Organization of countries to defend each other from a Soviet Attack | NATO |
| Organization of countries to defend each other from an American attack | Warsaw Pact |
| Idea that the U.S. would help any country fight off Communism | Marshall Plan |
| Rapid attempt between superpowers to be the first to go to space | Space Race |
| Soviet attempt to put missles within 90 miles of the US; forced to remove them | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| Last communist leader of the Soviet Union; reforms to communism failed | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Object built to keep people escaping from a communist city to freedom | Berlin Wall |
| Due to bankruptcy; led to the end of communism in Europe | Collapse of the Soviet Union |
| Nickname for Balkan ethnic tensions | Powder Keg of Europe |
| Cause of WWI | Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914, |
| Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, Assassination | MANIA |
| New Technology/Weapons in WWI | Zeppelins, Machine Guns, Tanks, Poison Gas, Airplanes, Big Bertha, Carrier Pigeons, Motorcycles, Submarines, Bayonets |
| Government plans used to rally support for the war effort | Propaganda |
| A war that is unrestricted in terms of the weapons used, the territory or combatants involved, or the objectives pursued, especially one in which the laws of war are disregarded. | Total Warfare |
| U.S. Entry into WWI | President Woodrow Wilson went before a joint session of Congress to request a declaration of war against Germany. ... The United States later declared war on German ally Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917 |
| American president's plan for what should happen after the war | Fourteen Points |
| End of fighting on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m. | Armistice |
| Formal ending of the war on June 28, 1919 | Treaty of Versailles |
| Tsar Nicholas II of Russia with Tsarina Alexandra and their children Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia, and Tsarevich Alexei | Romanov Family |
| Causes of the Russian Revolution | Collapse of an empire under Tsar Nicholas II and the rise of Marxian socialism under Lenin and his Bolsheviks |
| Event where citizens were fired on by Czar's soldiers when protesting | Bloody Sunday |
| Siberian peasant who seemed to heal Alexei; later murdered | Rasputin |
| Only son of czar and czarina; sufffered from a deadly disease called hemophilia | Alexei |
| Strikes that led to the resignation of the czar and a new government | March Revolution |
| Lenin returns; Bolsheviks take control of the Russian government | October Revolution |
| Motives of the Bolsheviks | The Bolsheviks were born out of Russia's Social Democrat Party. When the party split in 1903 they only had one main leader, Lenin |
| Influences on the Russian Revolution | On 7 November 1917, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a revolt against the ineffective Provisional Government |
| A conflict fought in Russia 1918–21 after the Revolution, between the Bolshevik Red Army and the counter-revolutionary White Russians, the Bolsheviks were ultimately victorious, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established | Russian Civil War |
| Period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity that occurred during the 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe | Agricultural Revolution |
| Walling off fields to create large, independent farms | Field Enclosure |
| Reasons the Industrial Revolution started in the United Kingdom | Cottage industries, Textiles, Spinning mules, Luddites, Industrial espionage, Coal and Iron |
| Natural Resources needed in the Industrial Revolution | Coal and Iron |
| Home based jobs primarily concerned with the design and production of yarn, cloth, clothing, and their distribution | Textile Industry |
| Working Conditions during the Industrial Revolution | Factory owners preferred younger works so they could be paid less, they were beaten with a stick or strap, common diseases were small poxs, tuberculosis and measles |
| Economic system based on the idea of an "invisible hand?" | Capitalism |
| Created the free market economy | Adam Smith |
| A political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole. | Socialism |
| A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. | Communism |
| Described how a controlled economy could work | Karl Marx |
| The process of making an area more urban | Urbanization |
| A policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force | Imperialism |
| Motives for Imperialism | Economic-to make money, control trade, raw materials and cheap labor, Exploratory-explore unknown areas, more scientific research, go on an adventure. Political-gain power, compete with territory, good military force, prestige. |
| Belief that natives would die out if they didn't adapt to new ways | Social Darwinism |
| Moral obligation to bring civilization to the uncivilized | White Man's Burden |
| Explorers->military->missionaries->settlers->new colony | Cycle of Conquest |
| Welsh journalist that traveled 7000 miles through Africa | Henry Stanly |
| Scottish missionary who was "lost" in Africa | David Livingstone |
| Explorer who claimed Australia for the British | James Cook |
| Trade between Africa, Europe and South America | Columbian Exchange |
| War over trade routes in the Ottoman Empire | Crimean War |
| Trade wars between the British and China over the drug Opium | Opium Wars |
| Dropped out of Seminary school to become a revolutionary; Always tried to hide his shortness, small pox scars and short left arm. later his second wife either committed suicide or was murdered after a dinner party | Josef Stalin |
| Was beaten into a two day coma when he was a child; dreamed of being an artist or architect then later wrote a book while he was in prison called "My Struggle" | Adolf Hitler |
| Stabbed a classmate when he was 11yrs old; was an elementary school teacher before becoming a newspaper editor and later signed up for the army | Benito Mussolini |
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