2nd Final Flashcards
Austria Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire became known as what powers
Central powers
During WWII the western front was characterized by what type of warfare
Trench warfare
The Germans were especially unhappy with the ___________ that stated that Germany was responsible for starting the war
War guilt clause
Germany, Austria, and Italy were known as what alliance
Triple
What is NOT considered a major cause of WWI
Impressionism
During WWII many men entered into the military, and so new roles were created for who?
Women
What did they call huge German airships
Zeppelin
What is the complete mobilization of resources and people called
Total war
What are the ideas that influence public opinion
Propaganda
What is the aggressive preparation for war
Militarism
Warfare based on protected lines of ditches is called?
Trance warfare
What is warfare based on wearing down opponents called?
War of attrition
What is a government called that aims to control the political, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural lives of its citizens.
Totalitarian
What was the destructive Nazi rampage against Jews called
Kristallnacht
A period of low economic activity and rising unemployment is called
Economic depression
What were the laws called that excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Jews and Germans?
Nuremberg Laws
What was one of the factors that triggered the Great Depression?
Economic downturns
What group promised the German people peace in a time of turmoil?
Nazis
The Great Depression was caused primarily by economic downturns and the what?
Stock market crash
Hitlerʼs birthplace
Austria
Legislation that gave Hitler supreme power?
Enabling act
Hitlerʼs philosophical work?
Mein Kampf
What was the National Socialist German Workersʼ Party called?
Nazi
What term describes Hitlerʼs right of superior nations to “living space”?
Lebensraum
Who is Mao Zedong? What was he the leader of?
A communist leader in China
What is the “Domino Theory?” How does that impact the US involvement of the conflicts in Vietnam and Korea?
It led to other countries getting involved because they’re involved in. If one country falls to communism, they all fall
What was the result of the Korean War?
The Korean War led to the armistice of 1953 to end the war. the U.S. Got involved to stop the spread of communism and North Korea was dived into 2 north and South Korea. ( it was never settled, north remained communist south remain capitalism
Who were the Vietcong? What was the result of the Vietnam war
The Viet Cong were Vietnamese supporters of the communist National Liberation Front cfought for south Vietnam and it was never settled
What policy was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe?
Appeasement
Roosevelt favored the idea of ____________________ for European states following the war.
Self determination
The German air force?
Luftwaffe
Hitlerʼs “lightning war,” using airsupported panzer divisions is called?
Blitzkrieg
Series of fortifications along Franceʼs German border?
Maginot Line
Target of Japanese attack December 7, 1941?
Pearl Harbor
Site of Alliesʼ DDay invasion?
Normandy
Hitlerʼs Final Solution for the Jew
Genocide
Had the task of administering the Final Solution?
Reinhard Heydrich
Hitlerʼs largest extermination center in Poland?
Aushwitz
The mass slaughter of European Jews?
Holocaust
Crowded, designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews?
Ghettos
Site of Trumanʼs demands for free elections in Eastern Europe?
Postdam
Assembling and preparing for war?
Mobilization
“Divine wind” or suicide bombers?
Kamikaze
British name for German air raids?
Blitz
Postwar ideological conflict between the United States and the USSR
Cold War
What was launched that had many americans fear that the Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in the production of missiles?
Sputnik 1
What was it called when the U.S. attempted to overthrow the Cuban government?
Bay of pigs
What was built in order to prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany?
Berlin Wall
To stop the spread of communism, the United States adopted a policy toward the Soviet Union of?
Containment
Military alliance of Soviet allies?
Warsaw Pact
Tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade?
Berlin airlift
Country with both military powers and political influence?
Superpowers
U.S. policy of support against communism?
Truman doctrine
U.S. effort to rebuild wartorn Europe?
Marshall plan
What new source of energy fueled the Industrial Revolution?
Coal
Before the Industrial Revolution, how were goods produced?
By hand in cottages
In which country did the industrial Revolution start?
Great Britain
What was the invention that could spin many threads at one time, saving labor and time?
Spinning Jenny
Why did the Industrial Revolution start in Britain?
Because Britain could sell products to their colonies
What is “capital” in the economic sense?
Means of production such as land/money/ machines
The building of cities and the movement of people to cities is called what?
Urbanization
What is imperialism?
Country controls the government of another country
“An area in which an outside power claims exclusive trading privileges,” describes which of the following?
Sphere of influence
