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gr. 12 history
un 4 terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Leaders of the Russian Revolution | Lenin & Trotsky |
| When people become **too** nationalist, and become hostile to other nations | Aggressive Nationalism |
| this group is made up of countries that border the ocean - this pact ensures mutual protection | NATO |
| This cold war era confrontation occurred when US forces discovered USSR nuclear missiles in Cuba | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| This clause in the treaty of Versailles forced Germany to take the blame for WW1 | War Guilt Clause |
| The assassination of this official led to WW1 | Archduke ferdinand |
| This night in germany ended in destruction, arrests, and humiliation for jewish people | Kristallnacht |
| This battle in ww2, fought in normandy, resulted in success for allies and many nazi casualties | D Day |
| This WW1 battle was fought in France, and Canadian troops had massive success | Vimy Ridge |
| This agreement was designed to create peace between Germany and Britain but was ultimately unsuccessful as Germany attacked within a year | Munich Agreement |
| This man was the PM of Britain during the 2nd world war | Winston Churchill |
| This cold war era ideology states that if one country falls to communism, it's neighboring countries are quick to follow | Domino Theory |
| This passenger cruiser ship contained many American civilians, and was sunk leading to America joining the war | Lusitania |
| this was the first multi-country government organization | League of Nations |
| This American President held office during WW1 | Woodrow Wilson |
| These trials were held in order to keep nazi officials responsible for the war crimes they committed | Nuremberg Trials |
| This American president held office during WW2 | Roosevelt |
| The battle on this Hawaiian port, instigated by Japan, led to America joining WW2 | Pearl Harbour |
| This muddy battle in WW1 resulted in many casualties due to poor conditions | Passchendaele |
| This American president succeeded Roosevelt and took office in 1945 | Harry Truman |
| This president succeeded Truman and held office during the cold war | Eisenhower |
| This economic model results in business owners having a lot of money, power, and control over the populations | Capitalism |
| This European defense treaty was created during the cold war in response to Germany joining NATO | Warsaw Pact |
| This treaty was created after WW1 was ended, and focused on punishing Germany for causing the war | Treaty of Versailles |
| This group consists of many nations, and provides help to countries in need | United Nations |
| This book was created by Hitler as a manifesto | Mein Kampf |
| The group of secret police put in place by Hitler during his reign | SS/Gestapo |
| Battle in WW2 when Germany tried to take over Germany using only air force | Battle of Britian |
| Combined forces in rapid succession to win a battle (eg, naval, air, land all at once) | Blitzkreig |
| The code name for the WW2 D Day battle | Operation Overlord |
| The largest concentration camp created to house the jewish genocide | Auschwitz |
| To demilitarize a nation | disarm |
| These schools forced indigenous children to learn catholic values, and attempted to erase them of their cultural identity | Residential Schools |
| This guy was the leader of the USSR once the czar was removed | Stalin |
| The cold war era agreement between USA and USSR with the goal of limiting the number of limiting the number of weapons held by each nation | SALT, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks |
| The German emperor that held power during WW1 | Kaiser Willhelm |
| A person who believes in hitler's ideology is a ____ | Nazi |
| The German dictator through ww2 | Hitler |
| The state of nazi Germany | 3rd Reich |
| This Japanese city was bombed with a nuclear bomb by the USA | Hiroshima |
| This WW1 battle introduced poison gas | Ypres |
| This bomb had never been seen before and caused mass destruction | Atomic Bomb |
| The genocide of the Jewish population is also called the: | Holocaust |
| PM/President of Cuba from the 1950s to 200s | Fidel Castro |
| The race to have more military/weapons than other countries | Arms Race |
| This agreement between the USSR and USA stated that if one country used nuclear weapons, it would certainly destroy both countries | MAD, mutually assured destruction |
| This WW2 battle was disastrous and resulted in many allied forces casualties | Dieppe |
| The last Czar of russia | Czar Nicholas |
| A novel written about what could've happened if Germany won WW2 | Fatherland |
| The second japanese city to be bombed by the USA | Nagasaki |
| This ww1 battle resulted in over 1 million combined casualties | Somme |
| The dictator of Italy during WW2 | Mussolini |
| This wall was created to stop citizens of berlin to flee to the non-germany occupied areas | Berlin Wall |
| This occured between the USSR and USA post WW2, as a result of nuclear power | Cold war |
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