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HistoryExam#2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| imperialism | the building of colonies by taking over |
| racism | hatred or intolerance of another race |
| paternalism | a system of managing individuals, businesses, and nations |
| assimilation | the merging of cultural traits from previously distinct cultural groups |
| geopolitics | the combination of geographic and political factors that influence a country |
| pacific rim | the regions, and countries that lie on the shores of the Pacific Ocean |
| annexation | to include a territory into the domain of a city, country, or state |
| Boer war | the name given to the South African Wars of 1880-1 and 1899-1902, that were fought between the British and the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in Africa |
| Crimean war | a war between Great Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia on one side, and Russia on the other, fought chiefly in the Crimea 1853–56. |
| nationalism | the belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation, rather than to a king or empire |
| coalition government | a government controlled by a temporary alliance of several political parties |
| fascism | a political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictorial one- party rule |
| nazism | the policies of the national socialist german workers party, based on totalitarism, a belief in racial superiority and state control of industry |
| appeasement | the making of concessions to an aggressor in order to avoid war |
| isolationism | a policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries |
| developed the theory of relativity | Albert Einstein |
| an austrian physician who believed that much of human behavior is irrational, or beyond reason | Sigmund Freud |
| Urged a return to ancient heroic values of pride, assertiveness, and strength | Fredrich Nietzsche |
| American pilot who made a 33 hour solo flight from new york to paris | Charles Lindbergh |
| US president in 1932 who began the new deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Fascist leader of Italy who took power in 1922 | Benito Mussolini |
| Democratic government established in Germany in 1919 and ended in 1933; named after the city where the national assembly met | Weimar Republic |
| The severe economic slump that followed the collapse of the US stock market in 1929 | Great Depression |
| US economic reform program designed to solve problems created by the great depression | New Deal |
| Night when Nazi mobs attacked Jewish people in their homes and on the streets and destroyed thousands of Jewish owned buildings | Night of the Broken Glass |
| German Empire, established by Adolf Hitler in the 1930s | Third Reich |
| the nations of germany, italy, and japan who formed an alliance in 1936 | Axis Powers |
| a 1938 meeting of representatives from britain, france, italy, and germany, at which britain and france agreed to allow Nazi Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia i return for hitlers pledge to respect Czechoslovakia's new borders | Munich Conference |
| Technologies that changed peoples everyday lives in the 1920s and 1930s | watched the news in a movie theater, radio became popular, packaged foods, refridgerator, washer |
| what caused the stock market crash of 1929 | too much money and not enough jobs |
| Nazi leader of germany during WWII | Adolf Hitler |
| Communist leader of russia during WWII | Joseph Stalin |
| Leader of great britain during WWII; one of the big 3 | Winston Churchill |
| US military leader responsible for the battles in the Pacific and "I shall return" | Douglas McArthur |
| Leader of Japan who gave orders for Japan to be bombed | Hideki Tojo |
| german second in command to hitler; implemented concentration camps | Hermann Goering |
| US president at end of WWII | Harry Truman |
| US military leader who sais "Hit hard, hit fast, hit often" | William "Bull" Halsey |
| US military leader who commanded corps and armies in north africa | George S. Patton |
| US military leader who organized the largest military expansion in US history | George Marshall |
| developed after the end of WWII to allocate Germany to the Allies and to slow/stop the spread of communism | Marshall Plan |
| Another name for the Battle of Normandy; a turning point in WWII for Europe | D-Day |
| Germany dropped numerous bombs in England, to attempt to get the citizens to ask their leaders to withdraw from war | London Blitz |
| The celebration of the end of WWII in Europe | V-E Day |
| Food and other supplies were dropped to citizens in Germany when Russia cut off transportation by rail | Berlin Airlift |
| Hitler's state sponsored plan of genocide against Jews and others | Holocaust |
| Court proceedings against leaders of the axis countries of WWII | Nuremberg Trials |
| Germans were surrounded by the Russians for appx. 3 months and eventually surrender due to starvation, winter, and a large number of deaths | Battle of Stalingrad |
| How did WWII begin? | It began because every country was afraid of another country getting to much power and taking over. |
| What was the role of women in WWII? | The women took men's jobs such as farmers, factory jobs, nurses, and worked on military bases, but they didn't fight |
| State of diplomatic hostility between the US and the Soviet Union following WWII | Cold War |
| Boundary separating the communist nations of eastern Europe and the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe | Iron Curtain |
| Military conflict between North Korea and China and the United Nations | Korean War |
| The line separating North and South Korea | 38th Parallel |
| General during WWII who also led during the Korean War and was removed from his position due to disagreements with Eisenhower | Douglas MacArthur |
| The general who replaced MacArthur during the Korean War | Matthew Ridgeway |
| Portable hospitals used during war | MASH Unit |
| Given credit for introducing Rock n Roll to the world | Allen Freed |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization; a defensive military alliance | NATO |
| Who was the leader of the communist party in the soviet union after the death of Stalin? | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Who is the communist dictator of Cuba? | Fidel Castro |
| What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? | United States demanded the removal of Soviet missiles that were in Cuba |
| Who was the president of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis? | John F Kennedy |
| Who was the ruler of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War and had announces Vietnam's independence from France? | Ho Chi Minh |
| Who became the president of the US after the assassination of John F Kennedy? | Lyndon B Johnson |
| Agent Orange is a... | Herbicide and defoliant chemical used during the Vietnam War that caused cancer in some soldiers |
| The 1st successful artificial satellite launched in 1957 by the Soviets | Sputnik |
| On May 4 1970, members of the National Guard fired into a crowd of demonstrators , killing 4 and wounding 9 students | Kent State Shooting |
| General who favored a fascist style government | Francisco Franco |
| Held on September 9, 1938 | Munich Conference |
| A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war | militarism |
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy | Triple Alliance |
| France, Great Britain, and Russia | Triple Entente |
| A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically | Imperialism |
| The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation | Nationalism |
| An organization of people or countries involved in a pact or treaty | Alliance |
| Opposing armies fight each other from ditches dug in the battlefield | Trench Warfare |
| Limiting the amount of goods that people could buy, often opposed during war time | Rationing |
| One sided information provided to persuade, advance a cause, or damage an opponents cause | Propaganda |
| Germany declared war on Russia because... | Russia began moving its army towards the border |
| Germany declared war on France because... | Germany thought France was going to help Russia |
| Great Britain declared war on Germany because... | Germany invaded the neutral country of Belgium |
| The central power included... | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria |
| The allies included... | Great Britain, France, Italy, Russia, Japan, and US |
| Germany announced that any ship that entered their waters without permission would be sunk is known as... | Unrestricted submarine warfare |
| The compromise between Germany and the Allies on June 28, 1919 to end the war was... | Treaty of Versailles |
| The fourteen point in the treaty that ended WWI created a group that wanted to keep peace is known as... | League of Nations |
| What is the Western Front? | an imaginary line that kept moving. Germany and Austria-Hungary border |
| What is the Eastern Front? | an imaginary line that kept moving. Germany and Russia border |
| New Technologies used during WWI... | Machine guns, hot air balloons, poison gas, u boats, submarines, and tanks |
| Berlin Conference | international meeting aimed at settling the problems connected with European colonies in Africa |
| Suez Canal importance | because of the timely transport of oil and nuclear weapons. |
| Southeast Asia in the 1800s | The French ruled Modern day Vietnam and Laos |
| Reparations | the making of amends for wrong or injury done |
| Mandate System | System established by the League of Nations |
| Warsaw Pact | alliance set up under a mutual defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland, in 1955 by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,and East Germany |
| Viet Cong | War tatics used in Vietnam |
| Khmer Rouge | name given to native Cambodian Communists |
| Third World | Countris where resources are limited |
| Richard Nixon | 37th president; only president to resign from office under threat of impeachment. |
| Communism | a theory and was considered to be a major social and political group |
| Alexander Dubcek | launched a series of political reforms which ultimately became known as "Prague Spring." |
| Culture | the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group |
| Ronald Regan | President during the space race |
| Star War | space race |
| Gulf War | a conflict between Iraq and the United States and its allies to expel Iraq from Kuwait |
| Green Revolution | an increase in food production, especially in underdeveloped and developing nations, through the introduction of high-yield crop varieties and application of modern agricultural techniques. |
| Terrorism | the use of violence and threats to intimidate people |
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