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Final exam
World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalins' 5 - Year Plan | His five year plan was too build heavy industries, improving transportation, and increasing farm output. He brought all economic activity under government control. |
| What was Hitler confident about the treaty of Versailles? ` | Hitler was confident that this treaty would bring an end to WW1. |
| Treaty of Versailles | This treaty forced Germany to assume full blame for causing the war. It also imposed huge reparations that would burden an already damaged German Economy. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Appeasement policy of giving into an aggressor's demands in order to keep the peace . |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler want and get? | The part Czechoslovakia that hitler wanted and got was The Sudetenland. |
| Hitlers invasion of Poland | After the invasion on Poland then WW1 started. |
| in 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | Japan was forced to decide what it needed more of. |
| December 7, 1941 | In a desperate gamble, the British sent all available naval vessels, merchant ships, and even fishing and pleasure |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Hitler planned to conquer the Soviet Union because He wanted access to Soviet oil fields to keep his war machine running. |
| Total War | It was a channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort. |
| Yalta | It was a conference meeting between Churchill Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW11. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | It was a meeting with Roosevelt which was also a strategy. |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | They did this because they felt like Americans would experience heavy losses. |
| Nazis final solution | They wanted to get rid of Jewish people. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | the victims of hitler were Jews, Gypsies, Poles and other Slavs, and people with physical or mental disabilities. |
| Warsaw Pact | It was a mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern-Europe set up in 1955. |
| Cold War | It was a state of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soviet Union on the other that rarely led to direct armed conflict |
| What country became communists in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | China |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | He was the second president of Egypt in the 1950's. |
| Numemburg laws | It was laws approved by the Nazi party in 1935, depriving Jews of German citizenship and taking some rights away from them. |
| Policy of containment | It was pursued by the United States in about the 1940's |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | It is a form of government that picks who will be part of the legislative roles. |
| Fascism | It is a government that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights. |
| Kamikaze | They were a special team of military people who flew suicide attacks for the empire of japan. |
| Axis Powers | Axis powers were Japan, Germany, and Italy. |
| Why did United States decide to stay isolated from foreign affairs when WWII started? | It is because they felt that they were dragged into WW1. |
| Pearl Harbor events | This was the attack on the U.S. Naval base in Hawaii. |
| Why did Great Britain and France declare war on Germany? | It was their response to the invasion on Poland that Hitler leaded. |
| What event caused the U.S. to enter WWII? | it was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. |
| Under what plan did the U. S. provided massive financial aid to rebuild European economies and prevent the spread of communism? | The Marshall Plan |
| Capitalist, Communist, Dictatorial, and Socialist meanings and which countries follow which ideals? | |
| Cold War time period | 1948-1953 |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | This happened in 1962 which was almost a nuclear war between the Soviet union and the United States. |
| A state of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union without actual fighting | The Cold War |
| The war that created divisiveness among Americans throughout the 1960s | The Vietnam war |
| How did women help in WWII | Women were armed forces and also worked in the factories. |
| What kind of policy did Martin L. King, Jr., and other members of SCLC encouraged? | It was a march to let all black people have the right to vote. |
| Freedom Riders | they are black and white people who choose to not abide by sitting in a designated part of a segregated bus. |
| Malcolm X | he was a popular figure during the civil rights movement |
| Sit-Ins | It was a form of a nonviolent protest |
| Civil Rights and Martin Luther King, Jr. | Up until his assassination he was a social activist who was had an important role during the civil war. |
| Vietnamization | this was a way to stop the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam war. |
| McCarthyism | This is when you make accusations of treason especially in communism. |
| The Highway Act of 1956 | This was the act of financing and constructing the National System. |
| The two nations divided at the 38th parallel | this was the division of Korea and Panmunjon between 1910 and 1945. |
| Watergate | This was a timeline of Political Scandals |
| How did Truman justified dropping the atomic bomb on Japan? | America was weary and Japan hated their enemy. |
| The Manhattan Project | They produced Nuclear Weapons and was a research development undertaking WW11. |