Exam Review Flashcards
What were the two alliances systems called before WW1?
Triple Entente, and the Triple Alliance
The Schliefen Plan was meant to avoid this king of war
two front war
whose assassination started WW1?
Archduke Franz
What 1914 battle stopped the German advance near Paris?
Battle of the Marne
What was the largest sea battle of WW1?
Jutland
What treaty took Russia out of WW1?
Brest-Litovsk
Name the four empires destroyed by WW1?
Russia, Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman
What are the jobs of the league of nations?
Disarmament, preventing war through collective security
Which party seized control in the Nov. Revolution in Russia?
Bolshevik
What policy did Stalin force on the farmers?
New economic Policy
what was the name for rich farmers?
Kulak
What was the main foal of the five year plans?
industrialization
What laws did Ghandi protest in South Africa?
Segregation
What was Ghandi’s method for gaining independence
Civil disobedience
Who was in charge of the Muslim League and what was his goal?
Jinnah, advocate fo a separate muslim-majority nation
What event brought Mussolini to power?
March on Rome
What was the Washington naval agreement?
Prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction
the Locarno Pacts guaranteed what in Western Europe?
Peace
Collectively, what were the FDR’s economic policies know as?
Keynesian economic theory
What finally ended the Depression in US?
WW2
What were Mussolini’s combat squads also known as?
Blackshirts
What political philosophy was Mussolini a proponent?
Fascism
What was the acronym for Hitlers Brown Shirts?
SS
Who was in charge of the SS?
Hitler
What were the anti-semitic laws passed by Hitler?
Nuremberg Laws
Who was the main architect of the policy of appeasement?
Neville Chamberlin
at which conference did the Uk and France betray their Czech Allies?
Western Betrayal in Munich
Stalin used this persons murder as an excuse to unleash the purges
Kirov
As a result of the purges what happened to all the old Bolshevik leaders?
murdered or imprisoned
What country was targeted by the Nazi-Soviet Pact?
Poland
What was the name for the German Army strategy early in WW2?
Blitzkrieg
Through which forest did the German army advance into France?
Ardennes
Where did the BEF evacuate from in 1940?
Dunkirk
What economic policy brought the US and Japan into conflict?
expansionist
Where was the bulk of the US pacific navy fleet stationed?
Pearl harbour
Name the conflict in 1939/40 that demonstrated the weakness of the red Army
Winter War
Give the code name for the German invasion of the USSr
Barbossa
What was the turning point in the battle of the US Navy in the Pacific?
Midway
The final solution intensified after the German invasion of
Poland
Following WW2 the war crimes trials were held in
Nuremberg
What defensive alliance was formed to prevent Soviet expansion in Europe?
Warsaw Pact
Name the Permanent members of the UN security council
China, France, UK, US and Russia
Which Soviet bloc country tried to rise up against Russian rule in 1956?
Hungary
Who took power in the USSR after the death of Stalin?
Khrushchev
Which middle eastern country was supported militarily by the USSR in the 1950s?
Egypt
What was the immediate result of the declaration of the State of Israel in 1948?
Arab-Israeli War
Why was the Sputnik launch so frightening for the west?
Soviets Technological advances
Failure to provide nuclear technology and peaceful coexistence led to the __ Soviet Split
Sino-Soviet Split
whose gov was overthrown by Castros Cuban revolution?
Authoritarian
What happened to American businesses in Cuba after the revolution?
Economic embargo
Where was the failed US backed invasion of Cuba
Bay of Pigs
What court decision ended school segregation in the US?
The Civil rights Act
Whee were French forces decisively beaten in Vietnam
Dien Bien Phu
What style of warfare was practiced by the Viet Cong?
Guerilla
What term means an easing of Cold War tensions?
Detente
Nixon finally recognized this country in 1972
China
What was the arms control agreement signed in 1972?
SALT
The Moscow Olympic Boycott was the result of Soviet invasion of this country
Afghanistan
This was one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War
Berlin Wall
Nelson Mandela was opposed to this political system
Apartheid
During which war did Israel capture, the Sinai, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights?
Six Day War
Which war saw Israel surprised and almost defeated
Yom Kippur
With which country did Iraq fight during the 1980s?
Iran
What is the Iranian term for king?
Shah
What 1956 crisis involved Egypt, Israel, Britain, and France?
Suez
Which country was invaded by Iraq starting the 1990 Gulf War?
Kuwait
Two famous battles of attrition on the Western Front
Verdun, Somme
What German strategy brought the USA into WW1?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Which wartime leader proposed national self determination for people in seated empires?
Wilson
What was the fatal error of the provisional government after the March revolution in Russia?
To continue fighting in WW1
Once the Russian civil war began Lenin instituted this economic plan
War communism
Who was thought to be the most likely successor to Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Name the US policy of the 1920s that kept it from being involved in World Affairs
Isolationism
Unregulated banking, buying on margin, and tariffs all contributed to this event
Stock market crash
Upon becoming president, FDR immediately called a __ holiday to build confidence
Bank
How did the US Supreme Court respond to many of Rosevelt’s actions?
Thwart his plans
TorF, US immigration policies in the 1920s increased the number of immigrants
True
Why was the Soviet Union less affected by the Great Depression
Soviet economy was not intertwined with the economics of Capitalist nations
What did Italy and Germany have in common when it came to the results of the Paris Peace Conference?
Both Mistreated
TorF, the Weimar Republic was known for its political stability
False
Who led the right wing Putsch in Berlin 1919?
Wolfgang Kapp and Walter Von Lutwitz
Which group supported Hitler more, trade unions or nationalists?
Nationalists
What was Hitler’s policy about war reparations?
Don’t pay
What group did Stalin target?
Intellectuals
In WW1 and WW2, Britain relied on food and supplies from which continent?
North America
What was the main threat to these supplies in both wars?
Enemy submarines
The period from October 1939 until the Spring of 1940, is known as the __ War
Phony
What was the order in which France, Poland, Uk and USSr attacked by Germany?
Poland, France, Uk, USSR
Following the civil war, Lenin introduced a policy to allow some private business. What was it called?
New economic policy
As party secretary, what power did Stalin have?
Allowed him access to party official documents and gave him a seat at the politburo
Protestors in Poland and the Czech in 1989 wanted this form of government
democracy
Dubcek’s ‘Socialism with a human face’ is associated with reforms in which communist country?
Czechoslovakia
Khrushchevs policy towards competition with the west?
Peaceful coexistence
In exchange for France’s vote on Korea, the Us had to support France’s war in
Vietnam
Which of these did not occur in 1949; USSR gets the bomb, China goes communist, Berlin Blockade, Sputnik Launched
Sputnik launched
When Stalin blockaded Berlin in 1949, how was it supplied by the west?
Airlift
What three cities were primary targets for Germany in Russia?
Leningrad, Stalingrad, Moscow
Which enemy did FDR give priority to upon entering WW2?
Japanese
What incident resulted in the dramatic increase of American troops in Vietnam
Gulf of Tonkin
what French term refers to president hoovers attitude towards business?
laissez faire
