Final

Question 1

Postindustrial economies

Answer 1

A phrase that describes the shift of some major industrial economies in the late twentieth century away from producing goods and toward producing services. (19th century or 1969?)

Question 2

Decolonization

Answer 2

Where countries pull out of the countries that they were colonizing in. (After WWII in 1945)

Question 3

Environmentalism

Answer 3

Started with Silent Spring in 1962. Written by Rachel Carson. Active group for the world that we live in.
Made the Green Party.
Also made news with the greenhouse effect.

Question 4

Greenhouse Effect

Answer 4

The warming of the earth by the effects of greenhouse gases.

Question 5

The Euro

Answer 5

Currency system in a united market in Europe. The euro is the currency for that united market. Introduced in 1999.

Question 6

Postmodernism

Answer 6

As intense stylistic mixing in the arts without a central unifying theme or elite set of standards guiding them.

Question 7

Rachel Carson

Answer 7

Famously wrote Silent Spring in 1962. Specifically the book was written about the use of DDT.

Question 8

Margaret Thatcher

Answer 8

The Iron Lady. Longest time in politics of the U.N.

From 1979-1990 as prime minister.

Question 9

Ronald Reagan

Answer 9

President of the United States during the 80’s. (after Carter in 1981.) known for “Reaganomics.” Majorly against the communist party.

Question 10

Michail Gorbechev

Answer 10

A former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

Question 11

Lech Walesa

Answer 11

is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity (Solidarność), the Soviet bloc’s first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 1995.

Question 12

Velvet Revolution

Answer 12

was a non-violent revolution in Czechoslovakia that took place from November 17 to December 29, 1989. Dominated by student and other popular demonstrations against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, it saw to the collapse of the party’s control of the country, and the subsequent conversion to a parliamentary republic

Question 13

The pill

Answer 13

Birth control that was radically used during the 60’s of their sexual revolution. Made the difference between baby making and emotions that comes from sex.

Question 14

Dien Bien Phu

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was the climactic confrontation of the First Indochina War between the French Union’s French Far East Expeditionary Corps and Viet Minh communist-nationalist revolutionaries. The battle occurred between March and May 1954 and culminated in a comprehensive French defeat that influenced negotiations over the future of Indochina at Geneva

Question 15

Marshall plan

Answer 15

Made my Marshall it was a plan to help out Europe after WWII to enable their economy. (1947)

Question 16

Truman Doctorine

Answer 16

The Truman Doctrine was a policy set forth by the U.S. President Harry Truman in a speech[1] on March 12, 1947 stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid to prevent their falling into the Soviet sphere.

Question 17

Totalitarianism

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This type of government was used to fully control the people. I public and private life. (Total) started by Italian fascists in the 1920’s.

Question 18

Wannsee Conference

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Taken place in Wannsee during WWII, many German war leaders came together to talk about the FINAL SOLUTION. This solution was used to take out the Jews that lived in the German territories. (1942)

Question 19

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 19

Was noticed and heard during the 60’s about the Civil Rights movement.

Question 20

Free Speech Movement (College Students)

Answer 20

was a student protest which took place during the 1964–1965 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.

Question 21

Triple Entente

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was the name given to the alliance between France, Britain, and Russia after the signing of the Anglo-Russian Entente on August 31, 1907.

Question 22

Triple Alliance

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1940 - Germany, Italy and Japan.

Question 23

Blitzkrieg

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An intense military campaign used to effectively go through to victories. (German)

Question 24

Sputnik

Answer 24

1957 - Soviets put up a satellite moving around the earth in space.

Question 25

Vatican II

Answer 25

In 1962 the Catholic Church modernizes with taking out Latin masses to be then replaced by native language masses. The church also replies to many things that were spoken against the church.

Question 26

Enabling Act

Answer 26

When Hitler brought himself into power of German to then cause his ideas of government to come into play. (1933) He’s obviously known as a dictator.

Question 27

Berlin Wall

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was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of the people” in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.

Question 28

Slobodan Milosevic

Answer 28

was the President of Serbia (originally the Socialist Republic of Serbia) from 1989 to 1997 and President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. Amongst his supporters Milosevic was known by the nickname of “Slobo”. He also led the Socialist Party of Serbia from its foundation in 1990. His presidency was marked by the breakup of Yugoslavia and the subsequent Yugoslav Wars. In the midst of the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, Milošević was charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with the wars in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

Question 29

Generation Gap

Answer 29

a term popularized in Western countries during the 1960s referring to differences between people of younger generations and their elders, especially between children and their parents.

Question 30

Valium

Answer 30

Released in the 1960’s and was used as a political drug. Very addicting like some other pain killers. Anti-anxiety pill.

Question 31

The United Nations

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An international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue.

Question 32

European coal and steel community

Answer 32

was a six-nation international organisation serving to unify democratic countries of Europe during the Cold War and create the foundation for the modern-day developments of the European Union.

Question 33

Welfare State

Answer 33

a concept of government in which the state plays a key role in the protection and promotion of the economic and social well-being of its citizens. It is based on the principles of equality of opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for those unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life.

Question 34

Simone de Beauvoir

Answer 34

was a French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist.

Question 35

Suez Crisis

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was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw

Question 36

Warsaw Pact

Answer 36

more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union and signed on 14 May 1955, in Warsaw.

Question 37

NATO

Answer 37

also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.

Question 38

Hiroshima

Answer 38

During World War II, the Second Army and Chugoku Regional Army were headquartered in Hiroshima, and the Army Marine Headquarters was located at Ujina port. The city also had large depots of military supplies, and was a key center for shipping. Dropping of the Atomic Bomb.

Question 39

Displaced Persons

Answer 39

The term was first widely used during World War II and the resulting refugee outflows from Eastern Europe,[1] when it was used to specifically refer to one removed from his or her native country as a refugee, prisoner or a slave laborer.

Question 40

Iron Curtain

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Quote from Winston Churchill. The Iron Curtain symbolized the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945.

Question 41

Nuremberg laws

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of 1935 were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating antisemitism as a form of scientific racism.

Question 42

Lebensraum

Answer 42

“Living room” - WWII.

Question 43

Appeasement

Answer 43

A policy of appeasing to someone or something.

Ex.) when Chamberland made an appeasement with Hitler on the subject of not following the Treaty of Versailles.

Question 44

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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was a peace treaty signed on March 3, 1918, at Brest-Litovsk (now Brest, Belarus) between Russia (the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic) and the Central Powers marking Russia’s exit from World War I.

Question 45

Influenza Pandemic

Answer 45

is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads on a worldwide scale and infects a large proportion of the human population. In contrast to the regular seasonal epidemics of influenza, these pandemics occur irregularly, with the 1918 Spanish flu the most serious pandemic in recent history.

Question 46

Verdun

Answer 46

In Northeastern France where a battle was being taken place. (In 1916 during WWI.)

Question 47

Lenin

Answer 47

was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist who served as the leader of the Russian SFSR from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until 1924.

Question 48

The treaty of Versailles

Answer 48

Dealt specifically with Germany. This was after WWI, and many nations made Germany pay some price for the war that they had to go through.

Question 49

Black and brown shirts.

Answer 49

The black shirts were Musillini’s own police force. The tans were his secret police force.

Question 50

Fascism

Answer 50

A doctrine advocated by Mussolini that glorified the state over the people and their individual or civil rights. Beginning in the 1920’s. politically grounded in an instinctual male voice and opposed to the so-called anti nationalistic socialists movement and parliamentary rule.

Question 51

Armenian Genocide

Answer 51

Happened in the Ottoman Empire during 1915-1923. Was the Ottoman government’s systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland in the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.

Question 52

Grigori Rasputin

Answer 52

Russian monk. Was close with the Tsar’s wife because of Alexie’s hemophilia. This all wash in the works during the first WW. He was killed by Tsar’s loyal man.

Question 53

Freikörpers

Answer 53

After WWI, Freikorps units fought both for and against the German state and formed the vanguard of the Nazi movement.

Question 54

Josef Stalin

Answer 54

Served a powerful position of general secretary of the communist party. Chief general in Lenin’s funeral. Joined Russian and nn Russian regions into the union of socialist republics (USSR). In 1923. Complete control by 1929.

Question 55

Spanish Civil War

Answer 55

When the Spanish overthrew the monarchy in their government in 1936-1939. Hard to gain a certain likeness to one political party during this time. Pro-Republican group won the election. But fascism came into play by Francisco Franco.

Question 56

Multinational corporations

Answer 56

Global market and conducted business worldwide, and had major factories other than their home bases. Popular in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Question 57

Samizdat

Answer 57

Clandestine copying and selling of literature branded by state. Especially from the communist areas in Easter Europe.

Question 58

Détente

Answer 58

The easing of hostility between nations or other countries. (Early 20th century)
This was trying to be used during the time of decolonization.

Question 59

AIDS Crisis

Answer 59

1985 - when the AIDS epidemic broke out.

Question 60

Blacks and tans

Answer 60

Mostly they were former soldiers brought into Ireland by the government in London in 1920. Their role was to assist the royal Irish constabulary in their work.

Question 61

The great purges

Answer 61

was a series of campaigns of political repression and murder in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1939.[1] It involved a large-scale purge of the Communist Party and government officials, repression of peasants, Red Army leadership, and the persecution of unaffiliated persons, characterized by widespread police surveillance, widespread suspicion of “saboteurs”, imprisonment, and arbitrary executions.

Question 62

Valentina Tereshkova

Answer 62

In 1963, she was the first woman to go into space. Part of the Space program in the Soviet Union.