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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalin's 5-Year Plan | Stalin's Five-Year Plan was a series of economic reforms launched in 1928 to improve the Soviet Union's domestic policy. The plan was centered around rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture |
| Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and most of the Allied Powers. |
| How did Hitler think the Allies would react when he violated the Treaty of Versailles? | In the second world war, to avoid war with Hitler's Germany, several violations by Hitler were ignored, with the aim of preserving peace at any cost, thus sacrificing Czechoslovakia. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Instituted in the hope of avoiding war, appeasement was the name given to Britain’s policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. British people – were desperate to avoid the slaughter of another world war. |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler take control of? | The Sudetenland, where 3million German-speaking people lived |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II |
| Mudken Incident | The Manchurian incident, or Mukden incident, was a covert military operation staged by the Japanese military to provoke the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria. |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | Japan was essentially forced to choose between abandoning its ambitions in China, or seizing the natural resources it needed in the Dutch East Indies by force |
| December 7, 1941 | The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor |
| Dunkirk | A port in France from which 300,000 Allied troops were evacuated when their retreat by land was cut off by the German advance in 1940 |
| Blitzkrieg | lightning war |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Soviet Union is very rich in natural resources as well as their ideologies are polar opposite. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | The Battle of Stalingrad was a major battle on the Eastern Front of World War II where Nazi Germany and its allies unsuccessfully fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (later renamed Volgograd) in Southern Russia. |
| Battle of Midway Island | During World War II the atoll became an important strategic objective for the Japanese. The Battle of Midway —fought northeast of the islands on June 3–6, 1942 |
| 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 World War II |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | The Tehran Conference was a meeting between the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom in Tehran, Iran, from November 28 to December 1, 1943 |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | Truman believed that Americans would suffer heavy loss. |
| Nazi's Final Solution | The “Final Solution” was the tragic culmination of the Nazi persecution of Europe’s Jews. As such, it is a key component of the Holocaust (1933–1945). To carry out the “Final Solution,” the Germans coordinated and perpetrated the murder of Europe’s Jews. |
| Extermination camps | Nazi Germany used six extermination camps, also called death camps, or killing centers, in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million people – mostly Jews – in the Holocaust. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, Sinti-Roma peoples, and Slavs but victims also encompassed people identified as social outsiders in the Nazi worldview, such as homosexuals, and political enemies. |
| Marshall Plan | massive aid package offered by the United States the Europe to help countries rebuild after World War II |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should do what? | The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should answer choices freely determine their won governments. |
| Warsaw Pact | mutual-defense alliance between the Soveit Union and seven satellites in eastern Europe set up in 1955 |
| Cold War | state of tension and hostillity between nations aligned with the United States on one side and the Soveit Union on the other that rarly led to direct armed conflict |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | China |
| Truman Doctrine | United States policy, established in 1947 of trying to contain the spread of communism |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Egyptian army officer, prime minister (1954–56), and then president (1956–70) of Egypt who became a controversial leader of the Arab |
| Fascist government | A government ruled by a dictator it involves total government control of political economic cultural religious and social activities |
| Six-Day War | The Six-Day War or June War, also known as the 1967 Arab–Israeli War or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states from 5 to 10 June 1967. |
| Policy of Containment | Policy of containment was a Cold War foreign policy strategy followed by the United States and its allies to stop the expansion of communism abroad |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | The US feared that the Soviet Union had superior nuclear and technological capabilities after the launch of Sputnik-1, the first artificial satellite, in 1957 |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | Protestant unionists (loyalists), who desired the province to remain part of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic nationalists (republicans), who wanted Northern Ireland to become part of the republic of Ireland. |
| Red-Scare Movement | The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, which intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s. |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | The Berlin Wall was built by the East German communist government to stop the mass emigration of its citizens from Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin |
| Gorbachev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | Political reform |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | president jimmy carter responded to the soviet invasion of afghanistan by declaring that military aid would be given to countries bordering the soviet bloc to contain the spread of communism . |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | upheaval as the political consequences of glasnost |
| European Union's first goals | promote peace, values, and wellbeing for citizens |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | he North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which was enacted in 1994 and created a free trade zone for Mexico, Canada, and the United States |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | In 1916, as American troops were deployed to Mexico to hunt down Mexican rebel leader Pancho Villa following his raid on Columbus, New Mexico, concerns about the readiness of the U.S. military grew. |
| Major causes of WWI | militarism, alliances, imperialism and nationalism |
| Military plan by German General von Schlieffen | The Schlieffen Plan was a battle plan proposed by Alfred, graf von Schlieffen in 1905, which suggested that Germany could win a quick Franco-German war while fending off Russia |
| Western front characteristic | The Western front was best characterized by trench warfare. |
| Central Powers | the alliance of Germany, Austria–Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria during World War I. |
| Militarism | glorification of military |
| Third Reich | Official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany; held power from 1933 to 1945 |
| Paris Peace Conference | The 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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