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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| show | Rise of communism, Bolshevik Revolution and civil war, Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy, and Lenin's successor - Joseph Stalin
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| show | Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands.
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| 5 Causes of WWII- Aggression by totalitarian powers: | show 🗑
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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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| WW II - After Hitler annexed Austria and Czecholslavkia to Germany, Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement. What does that mean? | show 🗑
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| show | France and Britain declared war on Germany
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| What did the Soviet Union agree in the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in 1939? | show 🗑
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| Year? German invasion of Poland | show 🗑
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| show | 1940
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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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| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | show 🗑
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| show | 1944
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| show | 1945
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| show | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| show | George Marshall
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| Who was Douglas MacArthur? | show 🗑
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| Who was Winston Churchill? | show 🗑
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| Who was the Nazi dictator of Germany? | show 🗑
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| Who was the most brutal Soviet dictator | show 🗑
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| show | Two years earlier they had signed the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact.
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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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| show | Emperor of Japan who fearing his monarchy would be destroyed, did not prevent the military's aggressive policies.
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| Economic dislocations following World War I led unstable: | show 🗑
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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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| Describe Stalin's policies in the USSR between the wars. | show 🗑
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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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| What is genocide? | show 🗑
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| show | master
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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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| show | Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union
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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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| One outcome of WWII was the ___ ___, a division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. | show 🗑
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| show | Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII
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| What is NATO? | show 🗑
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| show | A military alliance of the Eastern European countries in the Soviet sphere of influence.
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| show | Democartic government installed in West Germany and West Berlin; Germany and Berlin divided amoung the four Allied powers; Emergency of West Germany as economic power in postwar Europe
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| After WW II, Germany and Berlin were divided among - | show 🗑
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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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| show | Cold War
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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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| show | dictatorship and communism
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| What were some of the Soviet Satellite nations after WW II? | show 🗑
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| show | 1945 - 1948
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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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| show | 1989
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| What were the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union? | show 🗑
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| After World War II, the United States pursued a policy of ____ against communism. | show 🗑
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| The Cold War led to armed conflict in: | show 🗑
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| show | Policy for preventing the expansion of communism
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| How did China split after the end of the Chinese civil war? | show 🗑
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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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| show | Mohandas Ghandi - civil disobedience and passive resistance
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| People in India wanted freedom from ___ rule. | show 🗑
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| show | self-determination
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| Independence movements in Africa challenged European: | show 🗑
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| show | Woodrow Wilson
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| show | Kaiser Wilhelm II
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| At first America declared neutrality and refused to enter the fighting in Europe. The US declared war on Germany after - | show 🗑
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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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| show | Forced Germany to accept guilt for war and loss of territory and pay reparations; Limited the German military
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| What were the causes of the 1917 revolutions in Russia? | show 🗑
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| When Russia entered WW i, the country was ruled by a - | show 🗑
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| Before World War I, there were sharp divisions in Russia between the: | show 🗑
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| show | revolution and an unsuccessful provisional government.
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| show | Bolsheviks
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| ____ ____ pushed the Russian economy into chaos, quickening the collapse of the czarist regime and leading to the Russian Revolution. | show 🗑
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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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| show | United States not a member; Failure of League because it did not have power to enforce its decisions
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