World History II - 20th Century
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| What were the factors that produced World War I? | show 🗑
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| The event that began WW I was | show 🗑
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| World War I began in the year ____, but the US did not enter the war until ____. | show 🗑
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| How did communism rise in Russia? | show 🗑
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| show | Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
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| show | 1) Nationalism, 2) Failure of the Treaty of Versailles, 3) Weakness of the League of Nations, 4) Appeasement, 5) Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in Europe and the United States
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| show | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| WW II Leaders: Who was the US President after the death of FDR? | show 🗑
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| show | Britain and France did not actively oppose the annexations. They stayed quiet, hoping Hitler would not expand futher.
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| show | France and Britain declared war on Germany
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| show | They agreed not to attack Germany if Hitler invaded Poland (which he did a month later.)
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| show | 1939
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| Year? Fall of France | show 🗑
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| Year? Battle of Britain | show 🗑
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| Year? German invasion of the Soviet Union | show 🗑
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| show | December 7, 1941
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| show | 1944
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| Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | show 🗑
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| Name a WWII general who led the invasion of Normandy and later became a US President | show 🗑
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| Name the US WW II general and army Chief of Staff who after the war as Secretary of State came up with a plan to rebuild Europe | show 🗑
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| show | A controversial World War II general who led troops mostly in the Pacific.
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| Who was Winston Churchill? | show 🗑
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| show | Adolph Hitler
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| Who was the most brutal Soviet dictator | show 🗑
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| Why was the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 a surprise to Stalin? | show 🗑
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| show | June 6, 1944 Eisenhower commanded the allied invasion of Normandy, France
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| show | Hiroshima, Nagasaki
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| show | He did not believe Japan would surrender easily without the bomb, and continued fighting would have a great cost in American lives.
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| Who was Hideki Tojo? | show 🗑
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| Who was Hirohito? | show 🗑
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| show | political conditions
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| show | dictators
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| show | Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin
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| show | totalitarian
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| Japan emerged as a world power after World War I and conducted: | show 🗑
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| show | Economic conditions led to unstable political conditions following WW I. The treaty of Versailles put an even greater economic burden on Germany.
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| show | Entrenchment of communism, Stalin's policies (five-year plans, collectivization of farms, state industrialization, secret police) Great Purge
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| show | Inflation and depression, Democratic government weakened, Anti-Semitism, National Socialism (Nazism), German occupation of nearby countries
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| show | The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group
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| Hitler believed in a ____ race | show 🗑
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| What was Hitler's final solution? | show 🗑
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| Name several examples of genocide | show 🗑
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| show | Pol Pot in Cambodia
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| An example of genocide - Tutsi minority by Hutu in - | show 🗑
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| show | former Yugoslavia
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| An example of genocide - Armenians were killed by leaders of the - | show 🗑
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| An example of genocide - Peasants, governments and military leaders, and members of the elite were killed by | show 🗑
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| What were the outcomes of World War II? | show 🗑
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| One outcome of WW II was the establishment of two major powers in the world: | show 🗑
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| show | Iron Curtain
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| show | Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII
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| show | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( a military alliance of the western European democracies)
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| show | A military alliance of the Eastern European countries in the Soviet sphere of influence.
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| What happened to Germany after WW II? | show 🗑
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| show | four Allied powers - US< Britain, Russia, France
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| show | US occupied Japan under MacArthur's administration; Democracy and economic development; Elimination of Japanese offensive military capabilities; United States' guarantee of Japan's security; and Japan emerged as dominant economy in Asia.
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| show | MacArthur
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| Competition between the United States and the USSR laid the foundation for the | show 🗑
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| show | Communism
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| The Cold War began with the ____ Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe. | show 🗑
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| The Cold War was characterized by: Democracy and the free enterprise system versus | show 🗑
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| show | Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania
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| What period of time saw the beginning of the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| show | NATO v. Warsaw Pace; Korean Conflict; Vietnam War; Berlin and significance of Berlin Wall; Cuban Missile Crisis; Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence
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| When did the Soviet Union collapse? | show 🗑
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| show | Soviet economic collapse; Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries; Tearing down of Berlin Wall; Breakup of USSR; Expansion of NATO
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| show | containment
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| show | Korea and Vietnam
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| show | Policy for preventing the expansion of communism
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| show | Division of China into two nations at the end of the Chinese civil war; Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist China (island of Taiwan); Mao Tse-tung Communist China; Continuing conflict between the two Chinas
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| Who became the leader of Nationalist China on the island of Taiwan? | show 🗑
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| show | Mao Tse-tung
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| show | Role of French Imperialism; Leadership of Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam as a divided nation; Influence of policy of containment; The US and the Vietnam War; Vietnam as a reunited communist country today
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| Who was a leader of the Indian independence movement, and what tactics did he use? | show 🗑
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| show | British
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| show | self-determination
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| show | imperialism
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| The US president during WW I was: | show 🗑
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| During WW I Germany was led by - | show 🗑
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| show | attacks by German subs on American ships.
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| Russia withdrew from WW I the same year the US entered the war - | show 🗑
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| WW I resulted in the end of several empires including the - | show 🗑
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| show | independence
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| What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles? | show 🗑
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| show | Defeat in war with Japan in 1905; Landless peasantry; Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II; Military defeats and high casualties in World War I
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| When Russia entered WW i, the country was ruled by a - | show 🗑
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| show | nobility and peasants.
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| show | revolution and an unsuccessful provisional government.
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| A second revolution by the ____ created the communist state that ultimately became the USSR. | show 🗑
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| show | World War I
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| The Russian Revolution occurred in tow phases. In the March Revolution, czar ___ was replaced by a ___ ___. | show 🗑
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| Russia's November Revolution was led by ___ ___, who was leader of the ____ Party. | show 🗑
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| What was the League of Nations? | show 🗑
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| Why did the League of Nations fail? | show 🗑
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