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Chapter 16 Flashcards

1
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Hitler’s plans

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  • Slavic people would be slaves

- communism and capitalism would be eliminated

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events leading up to declaration of war in WWII

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  • Germany withdrew from league of nations
  • rearmament
  • Rome-Berlin axis (Italy and Ethiopia)
  • occupies Rhineland
  • annex Austria
  • Munich crisis over Sudetenland
  • Germans occupy Prague (Czechoslovakia)
  • Germany invade Poland
  • declare war
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Durnick

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WWII

  • after Germany invaded France
  • British barely escaped
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WWII in Africa and Greece

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  • Italy joined the axis and invaded North Africa and Greece (fail)
  • Germany to come in and capture Yugoslavia and Greece
  • axis failed to captured Cairo and Suez canal
  • this events delayed the invasion of Russia
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Japan in WWII

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  • invaded pearl harbor, Singapore, Philippines, dutch east indies
  • these provoked Roosevelt’s trade embargo on oil
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US and Britain’s plan for WWII

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  • offense in Europe

- defense in Asia

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Making peace in WWII

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  • conferences included Yalta and Potsdam
  • there was little Britain and USA could do to restrain Stalin unless they wanted WWIII
  • unconditional surrender (prevent Stalin from making separate peace)
  • united nations
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countries absorbed by soviet control after WWIII

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-Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria

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Italy after WWII

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  • no more monarchy and democracy
  • christian democrats
  • rebuilt economy (economic miracle)
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Yugoslavia and Albania after WWII

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  • went communist

- Tito (resistant to soviets)

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Greece after WWII

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-Greece fought civil war and defeated communists

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France after WWII

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-4th republic (horrible, Algerian conflict) , but then de gaulle took over

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causes of the cold war

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  • Russia wanted to control Germany and Poland to prevent a repeat of German attacks/communists empire in making
  • west didn’t want communist parties to win elections, but most were just hero and did good in elections
  • vast communist conspiracy (china, Korean war)
  • soviets mad about west not launching a second front/ west wanted stuffing knocked out of USSR
  • Marshall plan seen as plot to bribe Europeans
  • Berlin blockade attempt to push west out of Germany
  • enormous wealth of west was danger to communism
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NATO

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offense against Russia

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Warsaw pact

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soviet offense against west

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16
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Marshall plan

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  • helped promote the recovery of Europe
  • policy of containment (american influence)
  • seen by Russia as a way to bribe Europeans
17
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Truman doctrine

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  • block expansion of soviet influence into Greece and Turkey
  • help countries
18
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MAD

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mutually assured destruction

-prevented another general war so long as no accidents or another Hitler came into power

19
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Soviet union postwar world

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  • Khrushchev (destalinization, Cuban missile crisis)

- Brezhnev (detente, heavy industry)

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Britain postwar world

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  • welfare state
  • labor party
  • medical care
21
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5th republic

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Created by de gaulle after WWII

-after 4th republic

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Germany postwar world

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  • Adenauer

- economic miracle recovery

23
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Adenearu

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led Germany postwar Germany

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Poland after WWII

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  • communism
  • revolt
  • more harsh communist policies (Gomulka)
25
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Hungary after WWII

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  • open revolt led by imre Nagy

- suppressed by Russian invasion

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Czechoslovakia after WWII

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  • Prague spring
  • soviet invasion
  • suppression of reforms
27
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decolonization

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  • Britain withdrew from India (Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India)
  • dutch left Indonesia
  • french fought communism in Vietnam (unsuccessful)
  • British gave up African colonies
  • Philippines independent
  • Suez canal
  • south Africa (apartheid)
  • Belgian Congo (European and African successor government were bad)
28
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Balfour delcaration

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WWI

-promised support for Jewish national homeland

29
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existentialism

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-we are alone and condemned to be free, take action!

30
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Simone de beauvoir

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  • “second sex”
  • women must demand stuff
  • women discrimination went far deeper than political and legal issues

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