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World History
Final Exam Study Guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| John Maynard Keynes | invest money in the economy (economist) |
| Adolf Hitler | wants to create a racial state(pure aryan)1933 |
| Erich Maria Remarque | author of All Quiet on the Western Front |
| Sigmund Freud | psychoanalysis |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian fascist leader who wants to build up the military to recreate the roman empire |
| John Steinbeck | author of grapes of wrath influenced by Great Depression |
| Pablo Picasso | cubism style of visual art |
| Theory of Special Relativity | einstein |
| Bauhaus | architecture |
| Great Depression | high unemployment and low productivity |
| New Deal | building the country's infrastructure |
| Stock Market Crash | Black thursday oct 24, 1929 |
| Smoot- Hawley Tariff | high import taxes to increase job growth but diminishes world trade |
| New Economic Policy | Russia wants to have a free market with gov't control |
| First Five- Year Plan | Fully industrialized in 5 yrs with collective agriculture |
| Mao Zedong | leader of the chinese communist party in the 1920s |
| Sun Yat- sen | modernized democratic china/peoples republic of china |
| Marcus Garvey | "back to africa" movement |
| Diego Rivera | artist who illustrated the mexican worker..also pro socialist |
| Mahatma Gandhi | non-violent movement |
| Pan- Africanism | a modern africa |
| Good Neighbor Policy | assist latin america economically |
| Manchukuo | seized by Japan for resources |
| Dollar Diplomacy | military to protect american companies in foreign countries (latin america) |
| League of Nations | no real power..chinese occupation of manchuria was opposed but the league of nations was dissolved |
| India Act | muslim(sharia) law/greater autonomy |
| Revolution of 1911 | end of the qing dynasty/republic of china |
| Chinese Civil War | communist vs nationalist / communist victory |
| Erwin Rommel | german general..attempted to keep control of the suez canal in n.africa |
| Winston Churchill | battle of britain..first air battle and germany loses |
| Francisco Franco | fascist leader in Mexico who won with the help of italy and germany (Spanish Civil War) |
| Neville Chamberlain | met with Hitler and Mussolini..Munich Conference |
| Joseph Stalin | Nazi-Soviet pact that will divide poland between russia and germany |
| Tojo Hideki | led the invasion of china by japan (AXIS) |
| Harry S. Truman | responsible for dropping two atomic bombs on japan to end WW2 |
| Charles de Gaulle | president of france |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | reform soviet union by capitalism to revive the country but resulted in its total collapse |
| Betty Friedan | author of the feminine mystique..national organization of women |
| Kim Il Sung | N.Korean leader..seperates north and south korea by the 38th parallel. |
| Appeasement | giving germany czecho-slovakia to appeal to hitler's demands |
| Tripartite Pact | Japan Italy Germany ..AXIS alliance |
| German Blitzkrieg | lightning war strategy against russia |
| Final Solution | jewish extermination (Holocaust) |
| NATO | defensive alliance led by U.S. |
| Warsaw Pact | soviet union, poland, czech republic alliance to rival NATO |
| German Democratic Republic | communist east germany |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | Prague Spring (liberlization of czecho slovakia) |
| Policy of Detente | reducing arms/nuclear weapons around the world |
| The Rape of Nanking | 100000 residents die..20-30000 women raped |
| German Invasion of Poland | begins WW2 since they broke their non-aggression pact |
| Operation Barbarossa | germany fails because of the russian weather |
| Berlin Blockade and Airlift | US helps Berlin with supplies and russia retreats |
| Cuban Missle Crisis | U.S vs soviet union threat of nuclear war..resulted in embargo of cuba |
| SALT Talks | Strategic Arms limitation talks |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | founder of modern day pakistan |
| Ho Chi Minh | capital of vietnam..battleground during vietnam war |
| Lyndon Johnson | sent 10000 troops to vietnam to prevent n.korean influence in democratic s. korea |
| Kwame Nkrumah | leader of Ghana |
| Juan Peron | president of argentina |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | non-allied movement |
| Nelson Mandela | first african president of S.Africa/helped end apartheid |
| Balfour Declaration of 1917 | established the country of israel |
| Palestinian Liberation Organization | first known and recognized terrorist organization |
| Suez Canal Crisis | egyptian kick france and great britain influence and control out of suez canal |
| Great Leap Forward | collective agriculture and small scale industrialization but fails and results in famine for china |
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