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Stalins' 5-Year Plan Economic Goals made by Stalin
What was Hitler confident about the Treaty of Versailles? The Western Powers would be peaceful about maintaining the treaty
Treaty of Versailles The Treaty ended the state of war between Central powers and the Allied Powers in WW1.
Great Britain appeasement policy 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 The event that triggered WWII
Mudken Incident an event set up by Japanese soldiers as a reason for invading the northern part of China known as Manchuria in 1931.
In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? Indochina's raw materials or US oil and scrap iron
December 7, 1941 Japanese attacking pearl harbor by bombing it
Dunkirk battle/evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbour of Dunkirk from 26 May to 4 June 1940.
Blitzkrieg Lightning War, also used by hitler to win wars quickly
Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? He always wanted to/communist threats
Battle of Stalengrad The Battle of Stalingrad was a brutal military campaign between Russian forces and those of Nazi Germany and the Axis powers during World War II. Aug 23, 1942 – Feb 2, 1943 WWII
Battle of Midway Island Naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots
Total War Channeling of a nation's entire resources into a war effort
Yalta Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII
Tehran Conference in 1943 The Tehran Conference was the first World War II conference of the “Big Three” Allied leaders. between November 28 and December 1, 1943.
Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? Too many American Deaths, but also didnt want to look too weak
Nazi's Final Solution Genocide of German Jews
Extermination camps Nazi German concentration camp that specialized in the mass annihilation
Who were victims of Hitler? Jews but also included Roma (Gypsies), Slavs, homosexuals, alleged mental defectives, and others.
Marshall Plan Massive aid package offered by the U.S to Europe to help countries rebuild after WWII
The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? Determine their own governments
Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
Cold War State of tension and hostility between nations aligned with the U.S 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? Republic of China
Truman Doctrine United States Policy, established in 1947, of trying to contain the spread of communism
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser the second president of Egypt from 1956 until his death. also he was a colonel in the Egyptian army.
Fascist Government Any centralized, authoritarian government system that is not communist whose policies glorify the state over the individual and are destructive to basic human rights
Numemberg Laws segregated Jews at every level of German society.
Six-Day War third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
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 Their evolution of technology, and the power of the transport of nuclear weapons.
Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? Catholics and Protestants
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? built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies.
Gorbechev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? Gorbachev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without Political reform
How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? instituting a trade embargo and boycotting the 1980 Olympics in Moscow.
By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? Too many political reforms
European Union's first goals Ending frequent wars
Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? She resigned because her leadership was challenged.
North American Free Trade Agreement U.S., Mexico, and Canada made an agreement for trade.
Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? Germany sank a boat containing U.S citizens
Major causes of WWI Militarism, Alliances, Nationalism, Imperialism, and Assassination
Military plan by german general von Schlieffen Schlieffen Plan
Western front characteristic Around Ypres the water table was too high to dig trenches. Instead, defences were constructed using sandbags and wood (called 'breastworks') and were heavily protected by barbed wire,
Central Powers military alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
Militarism Glorification of the military
Third Reich Official name of the Nazi Party for its regime in Germany; Held power from 1933 to 1945
Paris Peace Conference Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers.
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