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WH CP2 Final Rev
CP2 Final Review Data
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Imperialism | Policy of conquering lands to build an empire |
| Racism | Belief that one race is superior to others |
| Suez Canal | Connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea |
| Isolationism | Policy of avoiding political or economic interaction with foreign countries |
| Russo-Japanese War | This conflict dramatically changed the balance of power in East Asia |
| The Roosevelt Corollary | This asserted the right of the U.S. to intervene in Latin American affairs |
| Henry Bessemer | Inventor of a cost-effective steel making process |
| Thomas Edison | Inventor of the light bulb |
| Mass Culture | Arts and entertainment became available to the lower-classes |
| Archduke Franz Ferdinand | His assassination led to World War I |
| Woodrow Wilson | Represented the U.S. at the Treaty of Versailles |
| Gavrilo Princip | Assassin and member of the Black Hand |
| Otto von Bismarck | Prussian chancellor |
| Alfred von Schlieffen | Author of German plan to avoid a two front war |
| Ultimatum | refers to a demand that |
| Schlieffen Plan | Germany’s plan to avoid a two front war |
| Trench Warfare | A form of warfare where combatants have fortified positions and fixed fighting lines. |
| Zimmerman Telegram | Message from Germany asking Mexico to attack the U.S. |
| Eleventh – WWI ended on the ______ hour of the ____ day of the ____ month | 1918 |
| BRAT | Acronym to remember the terms of the Treaty of Versailles |
| Big Three | Wilson |
| Autocrat | ruler with unlimited power |
| Nihilists | believed society & govt. must be destroyed to create a better society |
| Narodniki | students who spread revolutionary ideas to peasants |
| Vladimar Lenin | Leader of the Bolsheviks |
| Cheka | The Bolshevik secret police |
| Leon Trotsky | Leader of the Red Army |
| Joseph Stalin | Led the Soviet Union to become a superpower |
| Command economy | This is a government manages the economy |
| Satyagraha | Gandhi’s peaceful methods of resisting the British |
| Mohandas Gandhi | Leading Indian nationalist |
| Mustafa Kemal | Father of modern Turkey |
| Palestine | Ancient Holy Land to Muslims |
| Dreyfus Affair | French political scandal |
| Zionism | Jewish nationalist movement |
| Balfour Declaration | Statement regarding a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
| Good Neighbor Policy | Policy to improve US relations with Latin America |
| Nationalization | Government control of industries and resources |
| Kuomintang | China’ Nationalist Peoples’ Party |
| Long March | Long journey taken by Mao and his forces |
| Weimar Republic | Democratic government of post-WWI Germany |
| Inflation | An overall rise in the prices of goods & services |
| Global economy | Interdependence of international economies |
| Standard of living | Measure of access to needs and wants |
| New Deal | A Depression-era program of relief & reform |
| Franklin D Roosevelt | US president during WWII |
| Fascism | belief in an extreme nationalism & denial of individual rights |
| Adolf Hitler | Leader of Nazi Germany |
| Nazi Party | Germany’s National Socialist Party |
| Nuremberg laws | Germany’s anti-Semitic laws |
| Kristallnacht | Night of Broken Glass |
| Wannsee Decision | Hitler’s solution to the “Jewish problem” |
| Manchuria | Japan invaded this Chinese territory in 1931 |
| Neville Chamberlain | Appeased Hitler for “Peace in our time” |
| Blitzkrieg | “Lightning war” |
| Dunkirk | Rescue by a combined naval and civilian fleet |
| Winston Churchill | British PM during WWII |
| Lend-lease Act | Allowed US ships to deliver war supplies to the Allies |
| Pearl Harbor | Japan attacked this US base on Dec. 7 |
| Aircraft carriers | This naval vessel dominated War of the Pacific in WWII |
| Battle of Midway | The turning point in the War of the Pacific |
| Battle of El Alamein | The battle to save the Suez Canal |
| D-Day | The largest seaborne invasion ever |
| Harry Truman | US president who dropped the A-bomb on Japan |
| Genocide | Violent crimes committed against groups to destroy the group |
| Internment Camps | Prison-like camps for Japanese-Americans |
| Cold War | A state of rivalry and tension between the superpowers |
| Arms Race | Competition to develop more powerful weapons |
| Buffer Zone | A neutral area between rival nations |
| Truman Doctrine | Also known as Containment policy |
| Iron Curtain | symbolic and physical boundary dividing Europe |
| George Marshall | developed a plan to provide aid to European nations |
| Berlin airlift | ordered to counter Stalin’s blockade of Berlin |
| East European satellites | nations dominated by the USSR |
| Konrad Adenauer | first chancellor of Germany |
| European Community | European economic association formed in 1957 |
| European Union | Western European trade organization |
| Soviet dissidents | Soviet citizens who protested government policies |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | Soviet policy to control its eastern European satellites |
| Technology | Japan embraced new ___________ to build their economy |
| Saving | Japanese businesses benefit from high rates of ________ |
| People's Republic of China | Name of Mao’s communist China |
| Taiwan | Chiang fled to this country after defeat by the communists |
| The United Nations | South Korea appealed to The UN after being invaded by North Korea |
| Korea | A partial land-bridge between China & Japan |
| Five Year Plan | Mao’s Five Year Plan was a big success |
| The Great Leap Forward | Mao’s Great Leap Forward was a Great Big Failure |
| Cultural Revolution | Attempt to purify Chinese communism |
| Red Guards | Military-like groups to purify China |
| Tiananmen | Tank Man’s Square |
| Partition | GB divided the Subcontinent to reduce bloodshed |
| Pakistan | Land of the pure |
| Non-alignment | Policy of not choosing sides between the superpowers |
| Emerging | _______ or Third World nations |
| Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh led this country to independence |
| John Foster Dulles | Anticommunist US Secretary of State |
| Viet Cong | made up of cadres |
| Khmer Rouge | Pol Pots’ party |
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