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Wh Final pt. 4
questions and answers
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spanish American War | resulted in U.S. becoming imperial power |
| What was Stalin's opinion after Truman's election? | War between USA and USSR was certain |
| Why was the Suez Canal seized by Britain? | because Egypt could not pay its foreign debt |
| Sukarno overthrown | caused by political, not religious, conflict |
| Television and mass media | provided visual record of current worldwide events |
| Thriving economy tied to democracy | economic opportunity gives citizens a stake in country's welfare |
| Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | allowed Germany to focus all efforts on the Western Front |
| Treaty of Versailles | Germans turned against Weimar Republic because of this |
| Trench warfare | intended to protect soldiers from enemy in WWI |
| Triple Alliance and Triple Entente | caused by Bismark's fear of France and Britains fear of Germany |
| Truman Doctrine and containment | worked to produce similar goals |
| Why did Truman drop an atomic bomb? | to bring the war to the quickest possible end |
| Turkey | Nationalist lead succesful rebellion against the sultan |
| Two China policy made Cold War worse because | China and USSR were allies, fights over Korea, US supported Rep. of China and USSR supported People's Rep. of China |
| U.S. citizens interned in camps during WWII | Japanese falsely labeled as enemies |
| U.S. response to Japanese aggression in S.E. Asia in mid 1940s | broke off peace talks |
| U.S./Soviet alliance broke down because | Stalin's unfulfilled promise of free elections |
| U.S./Soviet cooperation space exploration | led to expansion of satellite use and global communications |
| United Nation's aid to world peace | provided public forum, meeting places, skilled mediators and soldiers |
| Upper and Lower Canada problems | cultural conflicts between the British and French |
| Vietnam in postwar period | accepted foreign investment from the USA |
| What widened WWI? | attacks on African colonies, revolt of Arabs, colonial soldiers recruited |
| Wilson's vision for Peace | Britain and France showed little sign of agreement, were concerned with strengthening their own security and wanted to strip German of war-making abilities |
| Women's suffrage struggle | women participated in hunger strikes |
| Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat's assassinations are similar because | killers of each man came from their own religions |
| Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were different because | Czech was peaceful, Yugoslavia was violent |
| Why did Zaire form? | because Belgian mine owners opposed Lumumba |