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WH CP1 Final Rev
CP1 Final Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Queen Victoria | Ruled over Britain’s largest empire |
| Napoleon III | Emperor of France in the mid-1800’s |
| Alfred Dreyfus | a Jewish officer in the French army falsely accused of treason |
| Veto | to cancel a law passed |
| Parliament | a legislature modeled after that of Great Britain |
| Repeal | declare null and void |
| Franco-Prussian War | France lost to a unified Germany |
| Coalition | alliances of various parties to form a majority and pass laws |
| Anti Semitism | prejudice against Jews |
| Progressives | Reformers who wanted change to help common people |
| King Leopold | His activities in the Congo set off a scramble among other European nations |
| Boers | They were Dutch farmers who migrated north to avoid British control |
| Zulu nation | This native group fought many wars for domination of South Africa |
| Sepoys | These soldiers were Hindus and Muslims employed by the British East India Company |
| Sun Yixian | 1st president of Chinese republic |
| Imperialism | the domination by one country of the political |
| Spheres of Influence | An area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges. |
| Racism | belief that one race is superior to others |
| Berlin Conference | European powers agreed on how divide Africa without fighting amongst themselves at this “conference.” |
| Genocide | This is a deliberate attempt to destroy a group of people |
| Isolationism | a policy of limited involvement in world affairs |
| Opium | The British looked for a product the Chinese would want |
| Extraterritorial rights | These were granted to GB after the Opium Wars. British citizens were not bound by China's laws |
| Opium Wars | China fought to stop the importation of opium |
| Perry | Responsible for opening trade between us and Japan |
| John A MacDonald | Canada’s first Prime Minister |
| Theodore Roosevelt | US President responsible for building the Panama Canal |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japan defeated Russia |
| Japanese imperialism | Japan needed resources to fuel its economy |
| Buffer zone | This is the term for a neutral zone between two rival powers |
| Latin America | This is the name given to the lands south of the United States that include: Central America |
| Monroe Doctrine | stated: the American continents were no longer open to colonization by any European powers |
| Archduke Francis Ferdinand | His assassination started World War I |
| Gavrilo Princip Assassin | he killed the heir to the throne of A-H |
| Alfred von Schlieffen | He created a plan to help Germany avoid a long two-front war. |
| Arthur Zimmerman | German foreign minister who asked Mexico to attack the US |
| Woodrow Wilson | US president who issued the Fourteen Points |
| Balkans | Region controlled by the Ottoman Empire from the 16th C until the 19th C. |
| Militarism | the glorification of the military |
| Alliances | formal agreements between countries to achieve common goals |
| Black Hand | secret society of Slavic extremists (a revolutionary nationalist movement) |
| Mobilize | to get troops into position for war. |
| Nationalism | This is a peoples’ desire for self-rule |
| Trench warfare | Slow |
| Propaganda | spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause. |
| Self-Determination | the right of people to choose their own form of government |
| Armistice | An agreement to end fighting |
| Nicholas II | He was Russia’s last czar |
| Alexander Kerensky | After the czar abdicated |
| Lenin | He was the Marxist leader of the Russian Revolution |
| Stalin | Ruthless Soviet leader who industrialized the Soviet Union |
| Serfs | These “peasants” made up 80% of Russia’s population and were treated little better than slaves |
| Autocrats | rulers with unlimited power |
| Bloody Sunday | This is the name given to the day Russian Soldiers killed peaceful protesters asking the czar for reform |
| Command economy | govt. manages economy to achieve state’s goals |
| Totalitarian state | The government controls all aspects of life |
| USSR | or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics |
| Communism | economic system in which the means of production and distribution are controlled by the state |
| Mustafa Kemal | the father of modern Turkey |
| Gandhi | Indian nationalist who combined religion with politics |
| Mao | this Chinese communist leader believed peasants could launch successful revolution. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | The US reserved the right to intervene if their political security or economic interests were threatened |
| Nationalization | government takeover of resources |
| Zionism | Jewish nationalist movement |
| Mandates | territories administered by European nations |
| Balfour Declaration | This carefully worded statement supported the idea of Jewish homeland |
| Swaraj | This is the Indian word for self-rule |
| Pakistan | “Land of the Pure” |
| Guomindang | the Nationalist People’s Party of China |
| Ultranationalists | Japan’s extreme nationalists who blamed the government for yielding to western demands to stop overseas expansion. |
| Herbert Hoover | US president on Black Thursday |
| Franklin D Roosevelt | His policies pulled the US out of the Great Depression |
| Benito Mussolini | An Italian fascist |
| Adolf Hitler | He was the leader of Germany’s Nazi Party |
| Francisco Franco | This fascist started a Civil War in Spain and was supported by Germany and Italy |
| Neville Chamberlain | British Prime Minister who appeased Hitler for “peace in our time” |
| Winston Churchill | Great Britain’s leader during World War II |
| Great Depression | a severe worldwide economic slump that lasted from 1929 to the early 1940s. |
| Black Thursday | the day the US stock market crashed and billions of dollars in paper wealth vanished |
| Standard of living | peoples’ access to necessities and comforts – drastically declined |
| Fascism | This political philosophy believes in an extreme form of nationalism and denies individuals of rights |
| Swastika | This became the symbol of the Nazi party |
| Nuremberg laws | racist and anti-Semitic laws passed to discriminate against Jews |
| Kristallnacht | Translated as “The Night of Broken Glass |
| Axis Powers | This was a military alliance between Germany |
| Manchuria | In 1931 Japanese troops invaded this Chinese province |
| Appeasement | A policy of making concessions to keep the peace |
| Poland | After Germany invaded this country (Poland) GB & France declared war on them |
| Blitzkrieg | In this type of warfare |
| Dunkirk | GB rescued nearly 400 |
| Battle of Britain | the name given to the air campaign waged by the German Air Force against GB during the summer & autumn of 1940 |
| Normandy | Site of D-Day |
| Kamikazes | Japanese suicide bombers |
| Pearl Harbor | On Dec. 7 |
| Aircraft carriers | This new type of naval vessel dominated the war of the Pacific. |
| Battle of the Coral Sea | This battle |
| Battle of Midway | Seen as the turning point in the War of the Pacific |
| Atom Bomb | These “super weapons” destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki in minutes and led to the surrender of Japan |
| New Deal | a program of relief & reform |
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