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Final WH
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Balance of Power | One purpose of a balance of power in foreign policy is to keep countries/alliances at similar strengths so war is avoided |
| Allied powers vs central powers | 1. B and F were strong democracies 2. E. Euro was authoritarian 3. It./G were new countries interested in acquiring colonies 4. Russia was not industrialized 5. CP= G/AH, AP= B/F/R 6. Allies had better industries & stronger financial systems |
| Franz-Ferdinand | should have been the next leader of AH and was murdered by a Serbian |
| Invasion of Belgium | The reason why Britain entered WWI in August 1917 was because G did this |
| Western Front | B/G: Passchendaele battle/3rd battle of Ypres; B won, F/G: battle of verdun; F won, B&F/G: battle of marne (1st); F won, G's last offensive |
| Eastern Front and battle at Tannenberg | Battle of Tannenberg: R/G; Gs won |
| Unrestricted submarine warfare | sinking any ship headed from/to a country considered the enemy |
| Gallipoli | Allowed OE to control Black sea |
| Armenian genocide | no one was punished for the mass murder of an ethnic group |
| Balfour Declaration | called for the creation of a homeland for Jews |
| US entry in WWI: Zimmerman Telegram, sinking of Lusitania | The Lusitania, ZT, and making the world "safe for democracy" are all associated with American entry into WWI |
| Wilson’s 14 Point Plan | Wilson wanted peace in order to avoid another war |
| Armistice | When Germany agreed to an armistice/treaty: The G were starving across Germany, the G army was beginning to mutiny bc of awful conditions, there were no occupying Allied forces in G |
| Weimar government | the provisional government established in Germany in the waning days of WWI |
| Treaty of Versailles | a treaty that the defeated thought too harsh and the victors thought too lenient |
| Treaty of Versailles: Mandate system | directed France and Britain to help former colonies establish representative govts |
| Treaty of Versailles: territorial changes | Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia were involved. Greece was not |
| Russo-Japanese war’s importance | R's losses in this war were the immediate cause of the 1905 Russian Revolution |
| Czar Nicholas II | as a result of the 1905 rev, Tsar Nicholas II agreed to create a national legislative assembly |
| February Revolution of 1917 | Put the provisional govt in charge of R's govt: Kerensky was leader |
| Provisional Government | Failed bc it continued to pursue an unpopular war |
| October Revolution of 1917 | Put the Bolsheviks in charge of the Russian govt: Lenin was leader |
| Marxist-Leninist economic and political ideas | Unlike Marx, Lenin emphasized that the working class, on its own, would not develop a revolutionary consciousness |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | Lenin was not willing to risk his limited power base through further struggle against a foreign enemy, so the Bolshevik govt signed the treaty of Brest Litovsk |
| Cheka | The soviet version of govt controlled enforcers |
| “enemies of the state”, cult of personality, etc | Totalitarianism traits: cult of personality around leaders, use of terror & secret police 2 crush opposition, identification of a scapegoat->enemies of the state, loyalty to the state is more important than individualism-->PRIVATE OWNERSHIP IS STILL LEGAL |
| Command economy | govt rules instructing businesses what to produce |
| Great Purge | trials and executions of "old bolsheviks" by stalin |
| “enemies" of the state/soviet regime were jailed in ____ | gulags |
| Kulaks and collective farms | kulaks (rich/successful farmers/peasants) revolted against regime's practice of collectivization of agriculture |
| Holodomor | terror against ethnic group (Ukrainians) |
| Cult of personality | promoting leaders as great people |
| Hitler | Beliefs: liberalism dangerous, Jews/Slavs inferior races, G needed lebensraum, nationalism important. ~1 yr jail: led revolt against govt. Won control of G bc convinced ppl govt stabbed them in the back & business leaders thought he would rid communists |
| Nuremberg Laws | deprived Jewish Germans of their human rights |
| Kristallnacht | an event in which Jewish property was destroyed by Germans |
| Night of the Long Knives | Many members of the SA were killed |
| Concordat with Vatican | Hitler was eager to sign this bc he wanted to gain legitimacy in the eyes of world leaders |
| Rome-Berlin Axis | btwn Hitler & Mussolini & was a military alliance |
| D-Day | Allied invasion of France started on the beaches of Normandy |
| Nagasaki and Hiroshima | 2 cities destroyed by atomic bombs dropped by US military |
| Manchuria ,Manchukuo | first part of china colonized by Japan in the 1930s |
| Communism/command economy vs capitalism | Communism: economic/political system of the USSR, Capitalism: economic system of the US |
| Communism vs democracy | Communism: govt officials are not elected but they control the economy, economic/political system of the USSR. Democracy: govt officials are elected but they allow private businesses to control the economy, political system of the US |
| Brinkmanship | When 2 powers take increasing risks to beat each other |
| General idea of conferences at Tehran, Yalta, and Potsdam | obvious that US/USSR had different visions for post war Europe |
| Iron Curtain | the ideological boundary between communism and democracy in europe |
| containment | the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.] |
| Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan | helped promote stability and capitalism in western europe |
| Truman, Stalin, and Khrushchev | Truman: leader of US at the beginning of the cold war, Stalin: leader of USSR at the beginning of the cold war, Khruschev: leader of USSR after Stalin died in the early cold war |
| Berlin blockade and airlift | Berlin airlift: Allies moved supplies to support Berlin during a Soviet blockade |
| NATO and Warsaw Pact | Warsaw pact was made as a direct response to NATO |
| Prague spring | Czechoslovakia's attempt to rid of communism, failure but young leaders of PS were elected leaders Czechoslovakia when it emerged from communism |
| Gorbachev | Leader of USSR who sparked the end of communism |
| glasnost | openess/transparency: prompted a series of political changes that triggered the end of communism in europe |
| perestroika | changed the economic system of the soviet union |
| Keynes and deficit spending | Keynes suggested using deficit spending during economically difficult times because only the govt had the money to increase factory production & employment |
| Hayek and economic control = political control | Hayek thought that govt regulations of the economy would lead to the govt placing rules on other parts of citizen's lives |
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