200-219 vt terms

Question 1

1. Open diplomacy without secret treaties
2. Economic free trade on the seas during war and peace
3. Equal trade conditions
4. Decrease armaments among all nations
5. Adjust colonial claims
6. Evacuation of all Central Powers from Russia and allow it to define its own independence
7. Belgium to be evacuated and restored
8. Return of Alsace-Lorraine region and all French territories
9. Readjust Italian borders
10. Austria-Hungary to be provided an opportunity for self-determination
11. Redraw the borders of the Balkan region creating Romania, Serbia and Montenegro
12. Creation of a Turkish state with guaranteed free trade in the Dardanelles
13. Creation of an independent Polish state
14. Creation of the League of Nations

Answer 1

Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points

Question 2

A form of far-right, authoritarian ultra-nationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy, which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.

Answer 2

Fascism

Question 3

A form of government characterized by a single leader or group of leaders that hold government power promised to the people and little or no toleration for political pluralism or independent media.

Answer 3

Dictatorship

Question 4

An art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by these artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature. Raoul Hausmann.. the folly of war.. the horror of war ..it was a peace movement, not unlike the Anti Vietnam music of the 1960s .

Answer 4

Dadaism

Question 5

Those who supported Weimar Republic mainly socialists, Catholics, democrats as they were thought to be responsible for treaty of Versailles. It was the Weimar Republic who accepted and signed the treaty of Versailles with the Allies.

Answer 5

November Criminals

Question 6

Germany’s government from 1919 to 1933, the period after World War I until the rise of Nazi Germany. It was named after the town of Weimar where Germany’s new government was formed by a national assembly after Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated.

Answer 6

Weimar Republic

Question 7

A German World War I military commander and president. He fought in the Austro-Prussian War and in the Franco-German War, and retired as a general in 1911.

Answer 7

General Hindenburg (Paul Von Hindenburg)

Question 8

A German general, politician and military theorist. He achieved fame during World War I for his central role in the German victories at Liège and Tannenberg in 1914.

Answer 8

Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff

Question 9

This term has been in occasional and varied use as a metaphor since the 19th century, but it came to prominence only after it was used by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, U.S., on March 5, 1946, when he said of the communist states, “From Stettin in the Baltic…

Answer 9

Iron Curtain

Question 10

Fascist dictator of the 3rd Reich

Answer 10

Adolph Hitler

Question 11

The USA, Great Britain, Russia, France, Canada, Australia, China, with cooperation for many other nations.

(The US President was FDR, the UK Prime Minister was Churchill, and the Russian leader was Joe Stalin)

Answer 11

Allied Powers

Question 12

Germany, Japan, Italy…

Remember Churchill’s WW I job as head of the Royal Navy, and that he was a POW in the Boer War.

Answer 12

Axis Powers

Question 13

These were nations that wanted to revise or overthrow the terms of the post–Great War peace, (Versailles).

Answer 13

Revisionist powers

Question 14

Fascist Dictator of Italy (Il Duce)

Answer 14

Benito Mussolini

Question 15

While WW 2 raged, Japan was attacking China.

Answer 15

Japan’s war in China

Question 16

A place to keep prisoners of war, and prisoners of Pogroms… Germany was infamous for theirs, but the US had interment camps as well.

Answer 16

Concentration camps

Question 17

The largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. Over 1.1 million men, women, and children lost their lives.

Answer 17

Auschwitz

Question 18

December 1937, Japan launches a brutal assault on Nanjing.

Answer 18

The rape of Nan Jing

Question 19

The act of purposely trying to change long standing and peer reviewed historical accounts.

Answer 19

Revisionist historians

Question 20

The government of Japan aligned itself with the other revisionist nations, Germany and Italy, by signing this, a ten-year military and economic pact, in September 1940.

Answer 20

Tripartite Pact