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1945B World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalins' 5-Year Plan | Plan 1: Rapid industrialization of the economy-drastic fall in consumer goods.Plan 2: Continuation of first plan-led to famine especially in Ukraine.Plan 3: Emphasized the production of armaments.Plan 4: Stressed heavy industry and military buildup |
| What was Hitler confident about the Treaty of Versailles | Force wouldn't be used to maintain it |
| Treaty of Versailles | Peace treaty that brought World War 1 to an end |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Given the name appeasement in order to avoid war. Allowed Hitler to expand German territory unchecked |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler want and get? | Hitler wanted to unite all Germans into one nation, went after Sudetenland and the 3 million Germans living in the area |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | September 1, 1939 Marked the beginning of WW2 and happened a week after the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union |
| Mudken Incident | Event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the military invasion in 1931 of northeastern China |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | What it needed more of, idochina's raw materials or oil and scrap iron |
| December 7, 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor - surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States |
| Dunkirk | The defense and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forced in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940 |
| Blitzkrieg | Method of warfare where the attacker, spearheaded using a force concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support. Breaks opponents defense with short, fast, powerful attacks. |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Stated that the German people needed to secure living space to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Fight between the Soviet Union and Germany and its allies for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia |
| Battle of Midway Island | US Navy defeated a Japanese attack against Midway Atoll, turning point in the war in the Pacific Theater |
| Total War | Conflict in which contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain complete victory |
| Yalta | Divided into four post-war occupation zones controlled by US, British, France and Soviet military forces. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | Strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from November 28 to December 1, 1943. |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | 1. Avoid land invasion since it would lead to the deaths of many Americans. 2. Determined to impose unconditional surrender on the Japanese since anything else would've mad him appear weak. |
| Nazi's Final Solution | Mass murder of Europe's Jews |
| Extermination camps | Specialized in mass annihilation of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Many victims were Jewish, soviet citizens, soviet POWs, and the polish |
| Marshall Plan | US program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of WW2. |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? | Freely determine their own governments in order to prevent the spread of communism |
| Warsaw Pact | Treaty of Friendship. |
| Cold War | Period of geological tension between the Soviet Union and the United states and their respective allies |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in tern made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | China became communist in 1949 |
| Truman Doctrine | American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geological expansion during the Cold War |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Second president of Egypt, led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year |
| Fascist Government | Form of far-right, authoritarian untranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy |
| Numemberg Laws | Antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany |
| Six-Day War | A series of border disputes that eventually sparked the war, spurred on further by Soviet intelligence reports that indicated Israel was planning a military campaign against Syria. |
| Policy of containment | Geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the US. Loosely related to the term cordon sanitarian which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | The US military had feared that they had fallen behind in developing new technology |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | Nationalists (Irish or Roman Catholic) and Unionists (British or Protestant) |
| Red-Scare Movement | Promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | To stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. |
| Gorbechev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | Political reform |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | Canceling US participation in the 1980 Olympic Games |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | too many political reforms |
| European Union's first goals | The establishment of a common European currency |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | She resigned after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | Agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | The Zimmerman telegram made the American public outrage and the resumption of submarine attacked lead to the US joining |
| Major causes of WWI | Politics, secret alliances, imperialism, nationalistic pride, and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria |
| Military plan by German general von Schlieffen | Designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two front-war |
| Western front characteristic | Living in midden trenches while constantly being pounded by artillery and lice |
| Central Powers | One of the two main coalitions that fought World War 1. Consisted of Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria |
| Militarism | The belief of the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressive to expand national interests and/or values |
| Third Reich | The German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party controlled the country which transformed into a dictatorship |
| Paris Peace Conference | Meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War l to set peace terms for the defeated Central Powers |
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