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1945B World history
Final Exam study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalin's 5-Year Plan | An Industrial society |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany was forced to pay for war damage, give up land to a new Polish state and return Alsace and Lorraine to France. |
| How did Hitler think the Allies would react when he violated the Treaty of Versailles? | Confident/force |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | It was based on Prime Minister Chamberlain's belief in Adolf Hitler's promises |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler take control of? | Sudetenland |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | Britain and France declared war on Germany days after Hitler invasion |
| Mudken Incident | Attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | If Indochina's raw materials or US oil and scrap iron was needed more |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor, Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet |
| Dunkirk | Royal Navy and private civilians evacuated 338,00 Allied troops |
| Blitzkrieg | Hitler's form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | To secure land and Slavic slaves to strengthen the Reich |
| Battle of Stalingrad | The German Sixth Army was lost |
| Battle of Midway Island | Turning point of the war in Asia that established US naval superiority over Japan |
| Total War | It involved a complete mobilization of resources of people |
| Yalta | The USSR, the US, and Great Britain all insisted that German surrenders unconditionally |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | A result in German being divided along a north-south line into East and West |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | Americans would suffer heavy losses |
| Nazi's Final Solution | Heinrich Himmler |
| Extermination camps | Camps in Poland were built when Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Jews, Slavic people,Gypsies |
| Marshall Plan | restore the economic stability of European nations after WWII |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? | They held free elections to determine their futures |
| Warsaw Pact | sought to create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations |
| Cold War | A period of political tension following WWII |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | China |
| Truman Doctrine | Prevent the spread of Communism in the aftermath of WWII by providing US support to countries thought to be targets of influence by the Soviet Union |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Seized the Suez Canal company from Britain and France |
| Fascist government | Strong central government led by dictatorial ruler |
| Nuremberg Laws | Laws excluding Jews from German citizenship |
| Six-Day War | Israel gained control of Sinai Peninsula, West Bank territory, and Goan Heights |
| Policy of Containment | US adopt toward the Soviet Union to stop the spread communism |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | Soviet Union was ahead of the US in the production of missiles |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | Protestants and Catholics |
| Red-Scare Movement | The US senator Joseph McCarthy is responsible for the anti-Communist movement |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | To divide East Germans from defecting to West Germany |
| Gorbachev 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? | Declining economy,rising infant mortality, and poor working conditions |
| European Union's first goals | A common European currency |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | After her plan to replace local property taxes with national flat-rate tax was rejected |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | To establish cooperative trade guidelines between Canada, the US, and Mexico |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | The Germans unrestricted use of submarine warfare |
| Major causes of WWI | The growth of Nationalism, Militarism, Internal Dissent |
| Military plan by German General von Schlieffen | War on two fronts |
| Western front characteristic | Trench Warfare |
| Central Powers | Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire |
| Militarism | Aggressive preparation for war which was growing along with nations armies |
| Third Reich | Hitler's goal |
| Paris Peace Conference | A league of Nations to prevent future wars |
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