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studyguide for final
study guide for Sem. two final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adolph Hitler | WWII dictator of Germany/Nazi party/fascist type government/ came to power because the bad economy after WWI |
| Chaing Kai Shek (Jiang Jeishi) | leader of china when Japan invaded China during WWII/ fought with Mao Zedong |
| Czar Nicholas II | king of Russia during WWI who gave up his throne because of the bulchevec revolution giving Russia a communist gov. /last leader of the Romanovs’ dynasty |
| Gandhi | Indian leader who led a peaceful revolution that let people know about British treatment of India/ freed India of British rule after WWII |
| Ho Chi Minh | leader of Vietnam during the Vietnam war who made Vietnam communist after it |
| Kim Il Sung | currently leader of Communist North Korea which may or may not have atomic weapons |
| Lenin | first communist leader of Soviet Union during WWII and Bulchevc revolution/ most important historical leader in Russian history |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the communist revolution in China/ divides land up along the long march/ failed great leap forward/ instituted cult of personality which influenced the young minds of the youth |
| Mussolini | fascist leader of Italy after WWI and during WWII/ came to power using mafia style tactics/ invaded Ethiopia before WWII |
| Nelson Mandela | leader of south Africa/ fought against segregation/ member of African national congress who hated aperitif instituted be the white minority/ made a non person for 34 years put in prison/ later becomes leader of South Africa |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister during WWII before Winston Churchill/ ultimately unsuccessful in his serving time as Prime Minister of Britian |
| Osama Bin Laden | mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, head or involved in al-Qaida; from Saudi Arabia |
| Otto Von Bismarck | Prussian, main force behind the unification of Germany; instituted Real Polotic |
| Ronald Reagan | US president during the 80’s; known for being tough on communism; nicknamed Rambo Reagan; in favor of Star Wars |
| Saddam Hussein | Iraq dictator; made the US upset twice; decided to invade Quite and started one of the Gulf Wars; invaded fly zones; thought to have nuclear weapons; hung by his people |
| Stalin | leader of the Communist Soviet Union during WWII; responsible for more deaths than the holocaust; felt he always needed to hold on to his power; very paranoid |
| Trotsky | Stalin’s rival after Lenin dies for leader of Communism; sent to Mexico City and was assonated |
| Truman | US president who used the Atomic Bomb; only world leader who used an Atomic Bomb |
| Winston Churchill | second Prime Minister of Great Britain during WWII; took over after Neville Chamberlain; led GB through battle of Britain; made the term the iron curtain |
| Yasir Arafat | Palestinian Liberation Organization’s(PLO) founder |
| Africa’s A.I.D.S. & Economic Crisis | lack of food because of ability to pay for medicine and other needs; bad economy because of European imperialism and other post colonial events |
| African Instability: Rwanda & Darfur | bad from not used to ruling themselves;after Belgians left the Hutu and the Tutsi started having genocide against each other; part of Sudan is Darfur,government wants to exterminate people so they give young unemployed men guns to shoot people to get land |
| Cold War: Cause and Effects | war of ideal logy; desire to contain the spread of communism to Russia’s satellite nations and China; Vietnam occurred, Cuban missile crisis, space race, Korean war; defeat of communism in 1989, collapse of Berlin wall |
| D-Day | invasion of Normandy, allies invade France, turning point in WWII |
| O.P.E.C. | oil and petroleum export countries, Cartel, influences gas prices |
| Communist Revolution in China | to contain the spread of communism through China |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | during the cold war between the US and Russia when Cuba got in the middle of the war and Russia kept a bomb there too close to the US;closest to WWIII Russia /Fidel Castro puts missiles in Cuba; Russia and us had a Blockade; removed missiles |
| Independence of African nations | After WWII; European countries cannot control overseas empires; bad effect for the new countries |
| India’s Independence & creation of Pakistan | Britain controlled India Gandhi led hunger strikes and peaceful things; Pakistan created for Muslims to release some religion tension' still disputed region of cashmere |
| Iraq invasion of Kuwait/ Persian Gulf War | iraq invaded Quate to stop them from stealing oil; chemical weapons used on Muslims |
| Korean War | fought under policy under the policy of apeasment, was a stalemate, created both NK and SK; NK our ally |
| North Korean economic & military growth | very poor and isolated and seeks to get big military and nuclear weapons |
| Communist Revolution in China | revolution led by Mao Zedong against Chaing Kai Sheck Zedong won and took control of Beijing |
| Partition of Palestine/Israel | UN created Palestine was formerly owned by Britain; Palestine split up into pieces, Israel now its own country; ongoing problems between surrounding nations,yom kippur war, 7 day war; Egypt now recognizes Israel as its own country |
| Rise of Fascism | ultra nationalism, strong central government; Nazi form of fascism rising now; after WWI Germany had to pay reparations and was poor and embarrassed |
| Russian Revolution | During WWI under czar Nicholas II, Rasputin; and then the Bolsheviks and Lenin pushed for the revolution, royal family shot and killed, no longer anyone to reclaim the throne |
| Soviet Blockade of Berlin | Berlin wall and Berlin airlift; in east Germany; Russians cut off supplies to west Berlin, us helps west Berlin |
| Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan | Afghanistan is to the Soviet Union the same as Vietnam is to US |
| Terrorism in Munich (72 Olympics) | when Israeli Olympians are killed because they are from Israel held by PLO |
| The Holocaust | When Germany mass murders millions of Jews because of their religion and beliefs during WWII |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germany forced to pay reparation, poorly written; set the stage for WWII |
| Vietnam War: Causes and Effects | loss for the US, fought under the policy of containment; fought because they didn't want communism to spread, containment, Ho Chi Min; slowed spread of communism, containment works |
| World War I Technology & Trench Warfare | type of fighting during WWI, miles of trenches fought in for years, trench foot, no mans land, barbed wire; machine guns, Colonel Mustard, tanks, submarines, |
| World War I: Causes and Effects | nationalism, imperialism desire for more land, militarism, alliance system; assassination of Franz Ferdinand;reparations for Germany, Britaina nd France superpowers, ise to U S's economy, Russia now Soviet Union, Mussolini comes to power in Italy |
| World War II: Causes and Effects | Germany attacks Poland, Germany is embarrassed, wants revenge, Hitler takes land; Japan wants to dominate as the number one Asian country, pearl harbor; bipolar world order US and Russia, new countries formed, establishment of UN, now the Nuclear Age |
| Alliance System | cause of WWI, domino effect of the nations |
| Apartheid | the policy in SA similar to US that separated the races in the country, ended in 1993 |
| Appeasement | policy toward Hitler when he started to land grab |
| Define Communism vs. Capitalism | capitalist gov. people decide the price, communism gov. decides the price of the cup/command economy |
| Policy & Truman Doctrine | we will try to prevent the spread of communism and contain it to the Soviet Union |
| Domino Theory | one country goes communist all will become the same way in that region |
| Gross domestic/national product (GDP/GNP) | number of wealth, value of the stuff that you manufacture |
| Guerilla warfare | typically used for smaller vs. larger armies, sneak attacks, unsuspecting attacks on the opposing forces, picking off of people |
| Imperialism | desire for an oversees empire |
| Infant mortality rate | Africa has a high mortality rate/ high death rate of children |
| Iron Curtain | used by Churchill to describe the situation in Europe during the Cold War about the Soviet Union |
| Island-hopping | first used by the US against Japan during WWII to invade Japan |
| League of Nations | founded after WWI, Wilson’s idea from the 14 points, failed from no real authority in league |
| United Nations | formed after WWII supported by Roosevelt, dealt well with many crises so far with big problems |
| Militarism | nations desire to have a big military, and the glorification of that military |
| Nationalism | glorification of one’s nation |
| PLO | PALESTINIAN Liberation organization, to destroy Israel, started by Yasir Arafat |
| Propaganda | form of advertisement that had a hidden agenda, form of persuasion |
| Great Purge | used by Stalin to get rid of his enemies |
| Reparation | the payment made by Germany after WWI from the treaty of Versailles cause of WWII |
| Socialism | the Government owns utilities, gas, water, electricity, cars, banks, is room for private investment |
| Super Power | US and the Soviet Union during 1989; strong military and economy |
| Totalitarianism | any situation where there is a dictator with total control |
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