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final history test 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Lend-Lease | major US program 1940-5. enabled US to provide Britain, Russia, China, and other allied nations with war material. transfers not to be repaid. -->success of allies in ww2 |
| Second Front | Churchill and Roosevelt and western allies worked quickly to open a 2nd front to relieve pressure on the soviets. united in this goal |
| Tehran Conference | 1st WW2 conference among the big 3 in which stalin was present. plan final strategy for war against nazi germany and its allies. discussed 2nd front |
| Big 3 | Roosevelt (US), Churchill (UK), and Stalin (soviet union) |
| Yalta Conference | 2nd meeting of big 3. discuss europe's post war reorganization |
| Postdam Conference | big 3 gathered to decide how to administer punishment to the defeated Nazi Germany. goals: est post war order, peace treaty issues, and countering the effects of war. |
| V-E Day | May 5. Nazi Germany agreed to surrender |
| United Nations | 26 allied nations that were fighting against the axis powers. Replaced the League of Nations. |
| Axis Powers | Germany Japan and Italy |
| Security Council | maintains interantional peace and security. authorizes military action |
| Reunited Germany | german democratic republic joined the federal republic of germany and berlin united inot a single city. "die Wende" the turning point |
| Iron curtain | boundary dividing europe into 2 seperate areas from the end of ww2 in 1945 to the end of the cold war in 1991. 1. western allies= west 2. soviets= east |
| containment | us policy using military, economic and diplomatic strategies to temper the spread of communism |
| Truman Doctrine | 1947. cold war strategy of containment vs soviet union and expansion of communism |
| Marshall Plan | primary program of the us for rebuilding and creating a stronger economic foundation for the countries of western europe. offered the same aid to the ussr and its allies but they didnt accept it |
| Berlin Blockade | soviets blocked all alnd and water transport to berlin from the west. allies supplied west berlin by air. -->soviets removed blockade. didnt want to risk american nuclear weapons |
| COMECON | economic bloc coordinated by the soviet union. response to the marshall plan. soviet union and other eastern european countries would work together to trade |
| NATO | North atlantic treaty organization. us and allies constructed this alliance for mutual assistance |
| Berlin wall | barrier built by the german democratic republic (GDR- east germany) that enclosed the city of west berlin separating it from east germany and east berlin. "anti-fascist protection wall" |
| Warsaw Pact | 1955. military alliance of the soviet bloc. fomalized the already existing unified military command in soviet- dominated eastern europe. lasted until 1989. was soviet unions response to west germany joining nato |
| Roosevelt died | Truman took over. he was not aware of the creation of atom bombs or the agreementts roosevelt made with the big 3 |
| who pressured the soviet union to leave europe? | truman. us agreed to help soviet union rebuild if they pulled their troops out. |
| who allowed elections in soviet union? results? | stalin. results: vecame a mixed gov in soviet union |
| _______ made a speech about an IRON CURTAIN haven fallen between eastern and western europe | churchill |
| by ______ there were few signs of conflict and the economies of west europe thrived while east europe reconstructed but led more poor lives (they were less free and proseperous) | 1950 |
| _____ germany was communist and ______ germany was not | east comm, west not comm |
| ____% of functioning industry after ww2 was in the us | 60 |
| comecon + nato = | people aware that europe was on the verge of hot war. |
| great patriotic war | stalin promised a better life once the germans were defeated and called the war with germany the great patriotic war |
| after the war the soviet union... | rebuilt heavy industry, but didnt make a lot of consumer goods. media heavily controlled and citizens couldnt leave |
| 1953 stalin died ______ was head of com party by 1955 | khruschev. he traveled to other parts of the world and was much more outgoing than stalin. main goal = improve the lives of the soviet union |
| Agra-cities | khrushchev wanted to build them. wanted to grow maize on the virgin lands, but maize does not grow quickly or well in the environment of the soviet union. also wanted to cut military costs |
| Khrushchev was overthrown in | 1964 |
| Brezhnev | came to power in 1964. wanted to continue the soviet union as it was and make it a major military power. |
| stagnation | period of 1964-1982. nothing changed |
| gas reserves began to give out | in the 1970s |
| Baikal-Amur Magistral (BAM) | was an attempt to exploit vast natural resources. the gov began infrastructure to east russia and went further into debt |
| welfare state | the state supported education and healthcare. there was a network of support. the people of europe paid higher taxes but felt more taken care of |
| european women | wanted to work |
| equality movements | young people wanted more equality |
| Lipen | founded the nationalist party. they did not like immigrants and felt that the growth of people threatened the national culture |
| immigration problems in europe | large number. birth rates also began to fall and there was a labor shortage |
| problems of colonialism | 1. economy-only wealthy could afford goods made. 2. administration-people in colonies didnt know how to rule themselves. 3. human factor-racial attitude toward colonies. 4. wars |
| woodrow wilson | put pressure on the european countries about giving up empires. league of nations mandates that colonies should be administered for the better of the people in them |
| westernized intellectuals | group of men that met from 1920-70 they came from privileged backgrounds, good educations, learned the languages of europe and understood the ideas of european countries. holding colonies=wrong |
| iraq | first colony to achieve independece from gb in 1932 |
| decolonization | came after ww2 and was over by 1970. many violent resistance movements |
| indian national congress | wanted independence from great britain. leaders: nehru and gandhi |
| self rule | taken from india. in the 1920s local elections were introduced and the muslims and hindues began to fued |
| india | the jewel in the crown |
| turkey | the ottoman empire allied with germany and when the empire collapsed it became the country of turkey |
| kemel attaturk | helped lead turkey to defend themselves and became president soon after. he believed in secular state and a western style gov |
| persia | produces luxury goods. they made a constitution in 1906 and in 1907 russia and british occupied the country. after ww1, russia and britain withdrew |
| reza pahlavi | ruled persia |
| mossadeq | prime minister of iran. wanted to nationalize the oil industry. overthrown and shahs brought back to power |
| muslims | sunnis= majority. felt western culture was immoral |
| ayatolli knomeni | religious leader and returned to as the head of state and muslim religion. |
| saddam hussein | attacked iran because he wanted the territory to access the persian gulf. war through the 1980s. |
| balfour declaration | allowed jewish people to move to palestine safely. |
| irgun | jewish group formed in 1947 that used terrorism against the british. jewish population grew |
| 1967 6 days war | israel won and took the west bank and gaza strip |
| yom kippur war | egypt surprise attacked isreal with an air force. |
| jomo kenyata | leader of the independence movement in kenya. was a graduate of the london school of economics. britain didnt want to leave kenya and from 1950-60 there was a lengthy struggle |
| scrambled africa | africa divided into many separate countries. minority ethnic groups were not happy with elections because the majority of whatever ethnicity was in a particular country was usually the winner of election |
| africa in cold war | given weapons in exchange for control of the resources there. many ethnic rivalries |
| cape colony | south africa. dutch settled there and created ports. |
| boers | people that lived in africa and engaged in agriculture. used slave labor. |
| allende | pres of chile. socialist interested in nationalizing industries. |
| pinochet | overthrew allende. ran a dictatorship. no nationalization under him |
| scret police and military | made many radicals disappear |
| spiritual socialism | spoken about and for moral reasons people began to discuass the neeed for reform |
| pres arbenz | elected under the basis of land reform. us didnt like land reform because it was bad for our economy. cia organized a coup and arbenz was overthrown |
| neoimperialism | when coutries interfere for their own benefit like the us did in guatemala |
| batista | pres of cuba. bad ruler. us supported him |
| castro | overthrew batista |
| Bay of pigs | american cuban refugees were landed in cuba to overthrow castro. unsuccessful and the cubans were not happy with us interference |
| after bay of pigs | castro asked soviet union leader khrushchev to put missles on cuba pointed towards us. us collected info from the spy plane u2 and confirmed the missles |
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