Final pt 2

Question 1

Gandhi

Answer 1

believed in non-violent, civil-disobedience tactics

President of the Indian National Congress

opposed British rule

led the salt march to oppose the salt tax

Question 2

Japan

Answer 2

with the allies in WW1

expansionist tendencies led to a deterioration in its diplomatic position

Question 3

factors contributing to the outbreak of WW1

Answer 3

German/British rivalry

The European balance of power was upset (Germany became too strong)

European Nationalism

Conflict between Austria & the kingdom of Serbia

Question 4

Serbia’s WW1 outlook

Answer 4

desired a Greater Serbia, wanted to unite with the millions of southern Slavs

Question 5

Russia’s WW1 outlook

Answer 5

Pan-slavism:

called for the solidarity of Russians with their Slavic cousins in E. Europe

Question 6

Western Front

Answer 6

in france

had trenches

Question 7

Zimmerman’s note

Answer 7

intercepted message between Mexico and Germany saying Mexico should side with Germany

Question 8

reasons for US intervention in WW1

Answer 8

unrestricted submarine warfare

Zimmerman note

Question 9

the big 4 at the paris peace talks

Answer 9

Orlando(IT)
Lloyd-George(GB)
Clemenceau(FR)
Wilson(US)

Question 10

Wilson’s error

Answer 10

failed to include even one Republican senator in his delegation

Question 11

soviet

Answer 11

elected governing council in the former Soviet Union

Question 12

Bolsheviks

Answer 12

“majority”

they were confirmed atheists who believed God had no place in their vision of a better society

Question 13

Revolutions of 1917

Answer 13

hardships/losses during WW I led to widespread discontent

Question 14

Soviet Union

Answer 14

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 15

War communism

Answer 15

the state took over the means of production and devestated the economy

Question 16

NEP

Answer 16

in soviet union

allowed the remainder of the economic system to return to private enterprise

Question 17

Stalin

Answer 17

began a series of Five-Year Plans for industry development

Question 18

Russian industrialization

Answer 18

constructed: railroads, power plants, steel mills

Question 19

Russian purges

Answer 19

Stalin was paranoid about threats from within the Communist Party

Question 20

Great depression causes

Answer 20

lack of industrial diversification

overproduction

agricultural surplus and the consequent fall of prices

an overexpansion of credit

Question 21

Great depression effects on other countries

Answer 21

Japan: strengthened militarist groups

Question 22

Merchants response to the great depression

Answer 22

reduce prices

Question 23

The New Deal

Answer 23

bold experimentation

unprecedented heavy federal government intervention

stressed its principles in the three R’s: Relief, Recovery, Reform

Question 24

the Hundred Days

Answer 24

FDR summons Congress into special session

Question 25

Facism

Answer 25

a form of totalitarian government where the state is the focus of life

Question 26

Mussolini

Answer 26

made Italy the first Fascist State & transformed it into a dictatorship

Question 27

Nazis

Answer 27

Germans were entitled to conquer/subjugate other races The Jew is enemy

Question 28

The Munich Conference

Answer 28

Hitler demands the Sudetenland GB & FR let him have it thought this avoided a world war

Question 29

Sudetenland

Answer 29

Czechoslovakian territory

Question 30

spanish civil war

Answer 30

proves to be a “dress rehearsal” for further conflict

Question 31

German invasion of Poland

Answer 31

blitzkrieg conquered in 4 weeks partitioned

Question 32

declarations of war

Answer 32

Italy declares war on France in 1940 Germany declares war on the US in 1941

Question 33

Ardennes Forrest

Answer 33

Germany goes through this to out-flank the Maginot line

Question 34

Phony War

Answer 34

Germany relocates from their victorious eastern position to the western area

Question 35

Leningrad

Answer 35

sieged by the Germans lasts 900 days

Question 36

Stalingrad

Answer 36

furthest advance of Germany into Russia

Question 37

George Patton

Answer 37

his forces rescue the 101st during the battle of the bulge

Question 38

Jewish experience in Warsaw

Answer 38

disease and malnutrition

Question 39

Battle of the Bulge

Answer 39

surprise German offensive under the cover of fog

Question 40

Operation Overlord

Answer 40

largest amphibious invasion in history lead into D-Day

Question 41

US fire-bombing of cities

Answer 41

Tokyo where a ton of people die Nagoya Kobe Osaka

Question 42

Bataan death march

Answer 42

Filipino troops forced to march to POW camps

Question 43

Okinawa

Answer 43

site of US amphibious landing ideal base for final assault US faces kamikaze attacks tons of Japanese die

Question 44

Midway

Answer 44

helps preserve the safety of Pearl Harbor Japan essentially relinquishes Pacific naval advantage

Question 45

The Red army

Answer 45

comprised of dedicated Bolsheviks