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Chapter 15 AP World
Chapter 15 Vocabulary AP World History
Question | Answer |
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The German term for the 1938 takeover of Austria by Nazi Germany. | Anschluss |
An idea put forth early in the Cold War in which all countries would pledge not to make atomic bombs and to allow international inspections; it was rejected by the Soviet Union | Baruch Plan |
The 1948 Р 1949 attempt to squeeze the Western allies out of occupied Berlin by the USSR; it failed because of the successful Berlin Airlift of food and supplies the United States and Britain. | Berlin blockade |
The ten-foot-high concrete wall and "death zone" erected by the Communist East Germans in 1961 to prevent further illegal emigration to the West. | Berlin Wall |
("lightning war") A war conducted with great speed and force, as in Germanyґs advance into Poland at the beginning of World War II. | Blitzkrieg |
June 5, 1944; the invasion of France from the English Channel by combined British and American forces. | D Day |
An organization begun after World War II, it fostered economic cooperation among member states, eventually becoming todayґs European Union. | European Economic Community |
A political movement in the twentieth century that embraced totalitarian government policies to achieve a unity of people and leader; first experienced in Mussoliniґs Italy. | Fascism |
Hitlerґs secret police, responsible for intimidating the population and helping to rid Germany of "undesirables" such as Jews and leftists. | Gestapo |
The mass executions perpetrated by the Nazi regime of Germany during World War II; its chief victims were 6 million Jews, but hundreds of thousands of gypsies, homosexuals, and others also perished. | Holocaust |
A metaphor coined by Winston Churchill early in the Cold War, it refers to the divide between western and eastern Europe caused by Soviet domination in the latter region. | Iron curtain |
The nationalist party headed by Chiang Kai-shek during the 1930s and 1940s in China. | Kuomintang (KMT) |
"living space". The doctrine, adopted by Hitler, that a nation's power depends on the amount of land it occupies; thus, a nation must expand to be strong. | Lebensraum |
A program proposed by the U.S. secretary of state George Marshall and implemented from 1947 to 1951 to aid western Europeґs recovery from World War II. | Marshall Plan |
(My Struggle); Hitlerґs credo, written while serving a prison term in 1924. | Mein Kampf |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a military alliance formed in 1949 in which the signatories (Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States) agreed to provide mutua | NATO |
The German variant of fascism created by Hitler. | Nazism |
Trials conducted in Germany after World War II to determine and punish war guilt among high German officials, resulting in several executions. | Nuremberg Trials |
A surprise attack on December 7, 1941, by Japanese planes on the U.S. navy at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; it brought war between the United States and Japan. | Pearl Harbor, bombing of |
Conflict in Spain lasting from 1936 to 1939 in which authoritarian forces led by Generalissimo Francisco Franco, with the help of Hitler and Mussolini, triumphed over Republican forces. | Spanish Civil War |
The third German empire, self-proclaimed by Hitler. The first was the empire of Charlemagne, the second that of 1871Р1918. | Third Reich |
The commitment of the U.S. government in 1947 to defend any noncommunist state against attempted communist takeover; proposed by President Harry Truman. | Truman Doctrine |
Created in 1945, it is the worldґs most extensive international organization. | United Nations |
A puppet state in the south of France during World War II, its leaders generally did the bidding of Nazi Germany. | Vichy regime |
a military alliance, formed in 1955, in which Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union agreed to provide mutual assistance. | Warsaw Pact |