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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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? | Once hitler violated the treating his allies met his military power with their military power |
| 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 | a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union; |
| Mudken Incident | an explosion destroyed a section of railway track near the city of Mukden. |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | Indochina's raw materials or U.S. oil and scrap iron |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor |
| 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 | Germany's strategy to avoid a long war in the first phase of World War II in Europe. |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come. |
| Battle of Stalingrad | Soviet forces launched a counteroffensive against the Germans arrayed at Stalingrad |
| Battle of Midway Island | the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. |
| Total War | military conflict in which the contenders are willing to make any sacrifice in lives and other resources to obtain a complete victory, |
| Yalta | the Big Three agreed that after Germany's unconditional surrender, it would be divided into four post-war occupation zones, controlled by U.S., British, French and Soviet military forces. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany. |
| 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 murder of all Jews men, women, and children |
| Extermination camps | sole purpose was to kill people on an industrial scale |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | jews |
| Marshall Plan | provided markets for American goods, created reliable trading partners, and supported the development of stable democratic governments in Western 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. |
| Warsaw Pact | a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: |
| Cold War | an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in turn made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | the mainland of china |
| Truman Doctrine | it is to prevent the expansion of communism. |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | was an Egyptian military officer and politician who served as the second president of Egypt |
| Fascist government | a way of organizing a society in which a government ruled by a dictator controls the lives of the people and in which people are not allowed to disagree with the government. |
| Nuremberg Laws | Nürnberg Laws, two race-based measures depriving Jews of rights |
| Six-Day War | israel war against the arabs |
| Policy of Containment | communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries |
| 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? | predominantly Catholic Ireland and predominantly Protestant England |
| Red-Scare Movement | The rounding up and deportation of several hundred immigrants of radical political views by the federal government in 1919 and 1920 |
| 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? | political reform |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | he canceled the US participation in the 1980 Olympic Games |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | too many politicals reforms |
| European Union's first goals | promote peace, its values and the well-being of its citizens |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | she left after a challenge was launched to her leadership, and was succeeded by John Major, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | established a free-trade zone in North America |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | Germany's resumption of submarine attacks on passenger and merchant ships |
| 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 | massive artillery bombardments and massed infantry advances. |
| Central Powers | one of the two main coalitions that fought in World War I |
| Militarism | the opinions or actions of people who believe that a country should use military methods, forces, etc., to gain power and to achieve its goals. |
| Third Reich | the Red Army |
| Paris Peace Conference | it failed in achieving its ultimate objective: the creation of a secure, peaceful, and lasting world order |
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