Final exam study guide Flashcards
this person:
Goal; peace
End militarism
Self-termination
Letting states determine their government
Woodrow wilson
Old empires became new counties
Germany
War guilt clause
Land loss
Reparations
Limited military
Treaty of Versailles
designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue, and to inspire the Allies to victory
14 points
ship that was for people but had munition on it that was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life
Lusitania
Place people discuss problems before having wars
League of Nations
the last Tsar of Russia
Nicholas II
Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future
Rasputin
It granted control over former German and Ottoman territories to members of the League of Nations after World War I
Mandate System
USSR, Bolsheviks
Industrialization
was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union
Josef Stalin
FDR’s __________
Socialist programs
Stronger executive (president)
Stronger national govt
new deal
Forced industrialization - catch up to the west
Agricultural collectivization
Kulaks targeted
No supply/demand
Quotas (coal oil steel electric wheat)
Five-year plans
the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies
Holodomor
person
Austria/Germany
wwI
Anti-semitism
National socialist German workers party (nazis)
Beer ha;; putsch 1923
Mein Kampf
Adolf hitler
person
presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor
Hirohito
a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons.
gulags
Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.
Vladimir Lenin
Inflated real estate
Spreads to other countries trade with the us
Worker shortage
great depression effects
stock market crash, world trade, bank failures
great depression causes
Fascism vs. communism
While communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society, fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles that is ruled by an all-powerful dictator.
founder of Italian Fascism, march on rome
Benito Mussolini
The night of broken glass
Kristallnacht
Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.
Munich Accord
treaty thing: Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.
Munich Accord
Made by Hitler and means - Lightning war
Hit hard and fast as well as a takeover
Sept 3-Britain & France declare war
Sept 17 - USSR invades Poland
Blitzkrieg
a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe
NATO
8 months
43k civilians killed
Incendiary bombs
the blitz
Japan Germany Italy were the
axis
a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (
Kamikaze
an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the US entry into World War II.
Pearl Harbor
a day set for launching an operation. specifically : June 6, 1944, on which Allied forces began the invasion of France in World War II
D-Day
The —– were a decade of fear in Japan, characterized by the resurgence of right-wing patriotism, the weakening of democratic forces,
1930s japan
Children relocated to places that were “safer” like Narnia or Paddington Bear movies
Sleeping in subway tunnels
Operation Pied Piper
the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.
Truman Doctrine
proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
Marshall Plan
Ussr nuclear in 1949
Mutually assured destruction
A cold war with hot spots and proxy (substitute) wars
Brinkmanship
Heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, motorized transport vehicles, high explosives, chemical weapons, airplanes, field radios
technologies of WWI
Attacks three most important areas of the soviet union.
Leningrad, Moscow, Rostov
Operation Barbarossa
purpose was to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
an unprecedented, top-secret World War II government program in which the United States rushed to develop and deploy the world’s first atomic weapons before Nazi Germany.
Manhattan Project
an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin
Berlin Blockade
a goodwill mission to drop candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949
Operation Little Vittles
a U.S. air raid during World War II that targeted major cities in Japan.
Doolittle Raid
The impact of the _____ was that it divided Germany and Berlin into four allied zones. These later became West and East German States. It also allowed to Poland fall under Soviet communist power
Yalta Conference
a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other
Nonaggression Pact
soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan (1941–44) during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes.
gen Tojo
combing air, land, and sea forces to navigate the challenging geography and distances
Island Hopping
Easter Parade - April 15-16. 1949
Pilots drop as much coal as they can in a day and it drops Russian morale.
Operation Vittles
the job is to make sure people don’t sneak people across the wall
stasi
a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China (PRC),
Mao Zedong
there is only one sovereign state under the name ____, with the PRC serving as the sole legitimate government of that ____
One-China Policy
Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
Xi Jinping
Turkic nomads living north of the Gobi Desert, ruled over a powerful empire between 744 and 840. Its capital was Karabalghasun on the upper Orhon River in Mongolia
Uighurs
AOS 2ND FIVE-YEAR PLAN
INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE 1958-63
COLLECTIVIZATION
Backyard steel furnaces
Grain and cotton production
Great Leap Forward
Cult of Mao - the little red book
End to elitism
Red guards
Cultural Revolution
Outside China, the ______ ________ is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown
Tiananmen Square
was a Korean politician and the founder of North Korea
Kim Il Sung
North Korean politician who has been the Supreme Leader of North Korea
Kim Jong-Un
a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula
38th Parallel
led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent.
Ho Chi Minh
suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos
Domino Theory
1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion
Bay of Pigs
a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Missile Crisis
a formal system to coordinate repression among the countries of the Southern Cone that operated from the mid-1970s until the early eighties
Operation Condor
Ussr premier 68-64
De Stalinization reforms
Tried to compete with us
We will bury you
Nikita Khrushchev
ost soviet leader
Glasnost openness
Perestroika = economic restructuring
“The old system collapsed before the new one had time to begin working”
Mikhail Gorbachev
In 1990, he was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
.Boris Yeltsin
a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008
Vladimir Putin
this Sunni Iraqi militant organization that first gained international attention in late 2004. The group is vehemently anti-American and seeks to overthrow the Iraqi government, which it views as an American and Iranian puppet.
Mujahideen
process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.
Decolonization
the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people
Western Wall
Jewish homeland
Ca 1900
Return to Israel
1948 Israel
Zionism
Tried to do but failed
Israel for Jews Palestine for Muslims
Separate countries
Complete sovereignty for both
problems/questions
Borders
Jerusalem
Refuges
Security for Israel
Two-state Solution
An Islamic terrorist and the head of the Al Qaeda network of terrorists
Osama bin Laden
a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy:
al-Qaeda
