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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalins' 5-Year Plan | The first five-year plan of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a list of economic goals, created by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. |
| What was Hitler confident about the Treaty of Versailles? | not use force to maintain it |
| Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did HItler want and get? | Sudetenland |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II (though by 1939 Japan and China were already at war). |
| Mudken Incident | The Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, was an event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria. |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | indochina's raw materials or u.s. oil and scrap iron |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| Dunkirk | Dunkirk is a small town on the coast of France that was the scene of a massive military campaign during World War II. |
| Blitzkrieg | an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory. |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Racial policies of Nazi Germany. |
| Battle of Stalengrad | In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. Wikipedia |
| Battle of Midway Island | The Battle of Midway, fought in World War II, took place on June 5, 1942 (June 4-June 7 in US time zones). |
| Total War | The American-English Dictionary defines total war as “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.” |
| Yalta | Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | First, Truman wanted to avoid a land invasion of Japan, which would have killed thousands of Americans. |
| Nazi's Final Solution | was a euphemism used by Nazi Germany's leaders. It referred to the mass murder of Europe's Jews. |
| Extermination camps | Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Jews |
| Marshall Plan | The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? | The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should freely determine their own governments. |
| Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Pact, formally Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, (May 14, 1955–July 1, 1991) treaty establishing a mutual-defense |
| Cold War | The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in tern made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | In 1949, a Communist-backed government, led by Mao Zedong, was instated in China (officially becoming the People's Republic of China). |
| Truman Doctrine | The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1954 until his death in 1970. |
| Fascist Government | They threatened to march on Rome in 1922. The government tried to placate Mussolini by naming him prime minister, but in 1925, he established |
| Numemberg Laws | The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." |
| Six-Day War | The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel. |
| Policy of containment | Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world's |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | "The Troubles" refers to the three-decade conflict between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and unionists (mainly self-identified as British or Protestant). |
| Red-Scare Movement | A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or ... immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution and political radicalism. |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. Between 1949 and 1961 more than 2.6 million East Germans, out of a total population of 17 million, had escaped. |
| Gorbechev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | President Reagan did all of the following EXCEPT. sign the Brezhnev Doctrine. Gorbachev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without. |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | Carter reacts to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan. In a very strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet military intervention into Afghanista. |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | By 1980, the Soviet Union was ailing from all of the following causes EXCEPT one |
| European Union's first goals | The European Union is set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | She resigned as prime minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | The NAFTA followed, entering into force on January 1, 1994. Tariffs were eliminated progressively and all duties and quantitative restrictions. |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | In 1917, Germany, determined to win its war of attrition against the Allies, announced the resumption of unrestricted warfare in war-zone waters. |
| Military plan by german general von Schlieffen | Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war. |
| Western front characteristic | Men, at least on the Allied side, lived in midden trenches while constantly being pounded by artillery. |
| Central Powers | The Central Powers were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I. |
| Militarism | the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. |
| Third Reich | Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945, |
| Paris Peace Conference | The Paris Peace Conference, also known as the Versailles Peace Conference, was the meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I |
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