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Stalin's 5-Year Plan concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of a drastic fall in consumer goods.
Treaty of Versailles formally ending World War One.
How did Hitler think the Allies would react when he violated the Treaty of Versailles He and other patriotic Germans were outraged and humiliated by the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles,
Great Britain appeasement policy allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked.
What part of Czechoslovakia did Hitler take control of? the Sudetenland
Hitler's invasion of Poland Hitler's invasion of Poland
Mudken Incident Mudken Incident
In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what?
December 7, 1941 pearl harbor attack
Dunkirk Image result for Dunkirk Operation Dynamo, the evacuation from Dunkirk, involved 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 an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.
Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? He intended to destroy what he saw as Stalin's 'Jewish Bolshevist' regime and establish Nazi hegemony.
Battle of Stalingrad one of the most decisive battles on the Eastern Front in the Second World War.
Battle of Midway Island battle to secure dominance in the Pacific in World War II. Learn more about the strategies employed during this battle.
Total War Total War is a series of strategy games developed by British developer Creative Assembly for personal computers. T
Yalta Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula in Ukraine surrounded by the Black Sea
Tehran Conference in 1943 The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943,
Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? afraid that an invasion of Japan would look like "Okinawa from one end of Japan to the other."
Nazi's Final Solution The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the genocide of individuals they defined as Jews during World War II.
Extermination camps From 1933 to 1945, Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe.
Who were victims of Hitler? Holocaust victims were people targeted by the government of Nazi Germany based on their ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, and/or sexual orientation
Marshall Plan proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
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 freely determine their own governments. to prevent the spread of communism, provided close to $13 billion to rebuild wartorn Europe.
Warsaw Pact The Warsaw Pact, formally the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May
Cold War The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc
What country became communist in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? mainland China
Truman Doctrine the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by
Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein (15 January 1918 – 28 September 1970) was an Egyptian politician who served as the second president of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970.
Fascist government Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism,
Nuremberg Laws The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party.
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 The Truman Doctrine, also known as the policy of containment, was President Harry Truman's foreign policy that the US would provide political, military, and economic aid to democratic countries under the threat of communist influences in order to prevent
America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 the U.S. military had generally fallen behind in developing new technology.
Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? the Catholic “nationalists” versus the Protestant “loyalists.
Red-Scare Movement A Red Scare is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism, anarchism or other leftist ideologies by a society or state. The term is most often used to refer to two periods in the history of the United States which are referred to
Why was the Berlin Wall built? to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state,
Gorbachev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what .. Gorbachev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without.
How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? The United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted by US President Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The embargo remained in effect until Ronald Reagan ended it in 1981 upon t
By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from?
European Union's first goals European Union's first goals
Why did Margaret Thatcher resign Why did Margaret Thatcher resign?
North American Free Trade Agreement established a free-trade zone in North America;
Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? Wilson cited Germany's violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.
Major causes of WWI the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary.
Military plan by German General von Schlieffen in case of the outbreak of war, Germany would attack France first and then Russia.
Western front characteristic bloodshed and stalemate
Central Powers Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire
Militarism the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests.
Third Reich Nazi Germany was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life we
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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