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World History
Study guide for 10th Grade World History Semester 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stalin's 5-Year Plan | Intended to transform an industrial society. |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany was forced to pay for war damages, give up land for a new Polish state, and return the Alsace-Lorraine region to France. |
| How did Hitler think the Allies would react when he violated the Treaty of Versailles? | He thought they would not use force to maintain the Treaty of Versailles. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Based on British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's belief that Hitler would keep his promises. |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler take control of? | Sudetenland |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | September 1, 1939. |
| Mukden Incident | Attack on a Japanese railway by Japanese soldiers disguised as Chinese citizens. |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | Indochina's raw materials or U.S. oil and scrap iron. |
| December 7, 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor |
| Dunkirk | the rescue of more than 338,000 British and French soldiers from the French port of Dunkirk between 26 May and 4 June 1940. |
| Blitzkrieg | Hitler's form of accelerated attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks. |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | To secure land for Germany and gain Slavic slaves for the Reich. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Battle which turned the tide of the WWII in Europe as the entire German 6th Army was lost. |
| Battle of Midway Island | Turning point of WWII in the Pacific; helped establish U.S. naval superiority. |
| Total War | Involves complete mobilization of resources and people to support the war effort. |
| Yalta | Post-WWII meeting with FDR, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin in February, 1945 to ensure that Germany surrender unconditionally. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | Set in Motion a plan that resulted in Germany being divided along a North-South line after WWII. |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | He believed that Americans would suffer heavy losses in a land invasion. |
| Nazi's Final Solution | Heinrich Himmler |
| Extermination camps | Extermination camps were built when the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Jewish people; Slavic people; Gypsies. |
| Marshall Plan | Designed to 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? | Hold 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 long period of political tension after WWII |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | China |
| Truman Doctrine | Stated that the U.S. would provide money to nations threatened by Communist expansions. |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Seized the Suez Canal from Great Britain and France in 1956. |
| Fascist government | A strong central government led by a dictorial ruler. |
| Nuremberg Laws | The laws excluding jewish people from German citizenship. |
| Six-Day War | Israel took Sinal Peninsula, West Bank Territory, and Golan Heights |
| Policy of Containment | Attempt at preventing countries from becoming communist. |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | They were concerned that the Soviet Union was ahead of the U.S. in the production of missiles. |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | Catholics and Protestants. |
| Red-Scare Movement | Anti-Communist movement started by Joseph McCarthy. |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | To prevent 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? | By canceling U.S. participation in the 1980 Olympic Summer games. |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | Declining economy, rising infant mortality, and poor working conditions. |
| European Union's first goals | Establishment of a common European currency ("Euro"). |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | Her plan to replace local property taxes with national flat-rate tax was rejected. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | Sought to establish cooperation trade guidelines between the United States, Canada, and Mexico. |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | The German's use of unrestricted submarie warfare against American ships. |
| Major causes of WWI | Militarism; Nationalism; Imperialism; Alliances |
| Military plan by German General von Schlieffen | War on two fronts |
| Western front characteristic | System of trench warfare which kept both sides in virtually the same position for years. |
| Central Powers | Austria-Hungary; Germany; Bulgaria; Ottoman Empire |
| Militarism | The agressive preparation for war which was growing along with many nation's armies before WWI. |
| Third Reich | Hitler planned to create a Third Reich or German Empire. |
| Paris Peace Conference | A meeting to discuss a "League of Nations" to prevent future wars. --Was not successful. |
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