APWH unit 7

Question 1

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 1

The Ottoman Empire started to decline during the late 1800’s when the Egyptians, Greeks, and Bosnians broke away due to nationalism. Failed Tanzimat reforms and Western aggression (Crimean War) were also causes.

Question 2

Collapse of Qing Dynasty

Answer 2

Ethnic tensions between Manchu and Han, western aggression (spheres of influence) and failed Self Strengthening.

Question 3

Collapse of Russian Empire

Answer 3

Russia’s decline as a world power (Crimean and Russo-Japanese Wars). Russia unprepared technologically and economically for WWI, lack of leadership, huge losses to the army, shortages of food and basic goods at home, growing opposition to the tsar

Question 4

Bloody Sunday

Answer 4

1905; peaceful march by russians turned deadly when Czar’s guards fire on crowd, killing hundreds

Question 5

Communist Revolution in Russia

Answer 5

A 1917 revolution in Russia to overthrow the Provisional Government, caused the Bolsheviks to take control and led by Lenin

Question 6

Total War

Answer 6

the channeling of a nation’s entire resources into a war effort

Question 7

Colonial Troops in WWI

Answer 7

European powers brought in soldiers from their colonies to help fight the war

Question 8

WWI Military Technology

Answer 8

machine guns, poison gas, tanks, airplanes, submarines

Question 9

Trench Warfare

Answer 9

Fighting with trenches, mines, and barbed wire. Horrible living conditions, great slaughter, no gains, stalemate, used in WWI.

Question 10

Civilian Targets in WW2

Answer 10

Blitz of London, Dresden firebombing, Hiroshima
Civilians seen as legitimate targets

Question 11

Women’s Suffrage

Answer 11

the right of women to vote - 1893 in New Zealand and 1920 in the US

Question 12

Lost Generation

Answer 12

Americans who became disillusioned with society after World War I

Question 13

Great Depression

Answer 13

the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

Question 14

New Deal

Answer 14

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

Question 15

Soviet 5 year plan

Answer 15

Stalin’s impossibly high quotas to increase steel, coal, electric output

Question 16

Great Famine in Ukraine

Answer 16

Caused by Soviet collectivization of farms as part of the first 5 Year Plan

Question 17

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 17

the treaty imposed on Germany by the Allied powers in 1920 after the end of World War I which demanded exorbitant reparations from the Germans; war guilt clause

Question 18

Mandate System in Middle East

Answer 18

dividing former territory of the Ottoman Empire and giving Britain and France control

Question 19

Japanese “east Asia co-prosperity sphere”

Answer 19

The Japanese claimed they were freeing Asians from Western imperialism, and they called their empire the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere.

Question 20

Armenian Genocide

Answer 20

The massacre of Armenians conducted by Turkey during WWI

Question 21

Holocaust

Answer 21

the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

Question 22

Fascism

Answer 22

A political system headed by a dictator that calls for extreme nationalism and racism and no tolerance of opposition

Question 23

Communism

Answer 23

a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

Question 24

totalitarian state

Answer 24

government in which a one-party dictatorship regulates every aspect of citizens’ lives

Question 25

Propaganda

Answer 25

information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.

Question 26

Authoritarian

Answer 26

A government in which one leader or group of people holds absolute power.

Question 27

Treaty of Versailles - New States

Answer 27

The treaty ending WWI helped create numerous new states in Eastern Europe like Poland and Czechoslovakia but also caused Germany and Russia to want to recapture territory lost to form these states

Question 28

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 28

Wanted to form a League of Nations to prevent future wars; his desire for a fair peace treaty not motivated by revenge was overridden by Britain and France