1900-2001 Flashcards
Russian who immigrated into the U.S. who advocated for worker and woman’s rights. Also an Anarchist (1900-2001)
Emma Goldman
What does total war mean? (1900-2001)
It means that everyone in the warring societies is contributing to the war effort and the nations economies are optimized for war
What caused WWI? (1900-2001)
Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (Austrian Prince)
Alliances
Militarism
Industrialisation
Nationalism
Who was in/what as the name of each alliance in WWI? (1900-2001)
Triple Entente: France, Britain, Russia
Triple Alliance: Germany, Austria, Italy
Front between the Allied forces and Germany during WWI. Mostly trench warfare. (1900-2001)
Western Front
What happened to women’s rights when the men went off to war? (1900-2001)
They got better
After the start of WWI, what was anarchy seen as? (1900-2001)
Outdated
Front between Russia and Germany during WWI. There was low Russian morale because Germany had better technology (1900-2001)
Eastern Front
Front in central Asia between Ottomans and Allies during WWI. Ally colonies fought a lot here (1900-2001)
Southern Front
French W. Africans that fought on the Southern Front in WWI (1900-2001)
Senegalese Sharpshooters
Who won/how did they win WWI? (1900-2001)
The Allies because the U.S. joined them
Why did the U.S. join WWI? (1900-2001)
The Germans sank a passenger ship
Conference that ended WWI and resulted in the treaty of Versailles and the formation of the League of nations (1900-2001)
Paris Peace Conference
What country was blamed for WWI? (1900-2001)
Germany, causing them to go into an economic turmoil with reparations payments and have their colonies redistributed
International Organization created after WWI that didn’t have much control (1900-2001)
League of Nations
Democratic Government Germany created after WWI that faced tons of war debts (1900-2001)
Weimar Republic
What happened in Germany as a result of war debts? (1900-2001)
Inflation like crazy
System that redistributed Ottoman and German provinces after WWI (1900-2001)
Mandate System
Attempt by Turks to get rid of Armenians (1900-2001)
Armenian Genocide
Why did Indians fight in WWI? (1900-2001)
Because they thought that they would be made independent
What did the Balfour Declaration say in 1917?
The British have to make a home in Palestine for Jews
Founder of the Republic of China who started the nationalist party (1900-2001)
Sun-Yat Sen
A student led protest in China against imperialism (1900-2001)
May 4th Movement
Leader of the Communist Party of China from 1949 to 1976
Mao Zedong
Russian political party ran by Vladimir Lenin that was communist (1900-2001)
Bolsheviks
Russian policy made by Lenin that was later reversed by Stalin. It allowed for some private businesses (1900-2001)
New Economic Policy
War in Russia between the Communists and the Rich (1900-2001)
Russian Civil war
What ally did not have a vote at the Paris Peace conference because they left the war early (1900-2001)
Russia
Who was Lenin’s successor? (1900-2001)
Joseph Stalin
What is collectivization? (1900-2001)
When a communist government takes over farms (by force) to redistribute the food from that farm all over the state.
Turkish nationalist and novelist who served on Turkish Parlement, taugh English, and served in the Army. Also a Woman (1900-2001)
Halide Edib
Order the major events in the time period 1900-2001 (WW1,globalization,WW2,Cold war,Depression)
WWI
The Great Depression
WWII
The Cold War
globalization
What were the effects of the great depression? (1900-2001)
Deflation and Unemployment
What decade did the great depression happen in?
1930s
Guy that suggested that Governments needed to spend money to revive their economy during the depression (1900-2001)
John Maynard Keynes
U.S. President during the Great Depression and WWII. Created the new deal to get out of the depression (1900-2001)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What is Fascism? (1900-2001)
Extreme nationalism, dictatorship, and militarism
Stalin executed Lenin’s old friends and some old officers to make sure that there was not going to be a coup (1900-2001)
The Great Purges
Charismatic fascist prime minister of Italy who allied with the Nazis and got his funds because he was a not communist or an anarchist (1900-2001)
Benito Mussolini
Leader of the Nazis who persecuted Jews, communists, LGBTQIA+s, and handicapped people and is the person who started WWII (1900-2001)
Adolf Hitler
What were some sudden changes that happened when Hitler rose to power? (1900-2001)
He became a Dictator
Hitler youth instead of boy scouts
Censorship
Restricting Religious leaders
Why was Hitler Elected? (1900-2001)
Because the people of his party thought that they could control him from behind the scenes
What is some good stuff to come out of Nazi Germany? (1900-2001)
Autobahn
low unemployment
big military
Why did Japan invade Manchuria? (1900-2001)
It needed resources because of industrialization
Ottoman who established Turkey in 1923
Mustafa Kemal
Ghandi lead a lot of people to the ocean to make salt in protest of Britain’s monopoly on it (1900-2001)
Salt March
British army fired on a peaceful Indian crowd, which lead to Indians wanting self-governance (1900-2001)
Amritsar Massacre
Muslim political party that advocated for a separate state for Muslims (1900-2001)
Muslim league
Rebellion led by women against British tax. Rebellion done by celebrating cultural traditions (1900-2001)
Igbo Women’s war
Did people think that Hitler was a threat? (1900-2001)
no
Japan occupied the Nanjing providence of China and killed lots of Chinese people because they thought they were racially superior (1900-2001)
Rape of Nanjing
Who did Ethiopia defend against? (1900-2001)
Italy
What was the “prelude to WWII”? (1900-2001)
Spanish civil war
Overall, what happened in the period from 1900-2001?
Global wars
Decolonization
Globalization
The land that Hitler wanted to take over to feed Germany (1900-2001)
Lebensraum
What were the two main reasons for WWII? (1900-2001)
Aggression and apeasement
What was the Munich Conference? (1900-2001)
Conference between Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France to make Czechloslovakia surrender the Sudeten region
Name the 4 non-aligned countries during the Cold War?
Ghana, India, Indonesia, Egypt
What difficult question were new countries faced with during the cold war?
Capatalist or Communist
Person who negotiated independence for Ghana but was then assasinated
Kwame Nkrumah
Leader of the Vietnamese revolution
Ho Chi Minh
How did India not get messed with during the Cold War?
Nukes
Guatemalen President who was overthrown by the CIA because he attempted land reform where lots of bananas were grown
Jacobo Árbenz
Cuban President who was supported by the USSR
Fidel Castro
USSR invaded this place because they wanted them to continue to be communist. A proxy war
Afghanistan
The use of new technologies to increase food supply. Helped a lot in Mexico and India
Green Revolution
Mexican president during the Mexican revolution who was very corrupt and sold land to U.S. business interests
Porferio Diaz
