Final Review 2nd Semester Flashcards
Monroe Doctrine
President Monroe announced “The American continents aren’t to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”
Roosevelt Corollary
European nations shouldn’t intervene in countries to the south of the US
Militarism
Building up glorification of the military
Nationalism
Belief that one’s greatest loyalty should be to one’s country
Imperialism
Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country
Ultimatum
Do this or else
Flapper
Rebellious girl of the 20s who goes against the norms
5 Years Plans
Stalin’s idea to increase industry and agriculture
Total war
all resources go to the war effort
Propaganda
One-sided information
Armistice
Cease-fire
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Brought peace between Russia and Germany
Bolsheviks
Communists
Reparations
Money for war damages
Boycott
Refuse to buy
Fascism
One party; dictatorship; Limited rights; Extreme nationalism
Collectivization
Large state-controlled farms
Gulag
Soviet prison camps
United Nations
International organization created after World War II to maintain peace
VE day
Victory in Europe day; May 7, 1945; Gen. Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender
Chancellor
Prime Minister of Germany
Rosie the Riveter
Symbol for working women
Good neighbor policy
FDR would interfere less with Latin American issues
Surrealism
Artistic attempt to portray workings of the unconscious mind
Nicholas II
Last czar of Russia
U Boat
Name for submarines Germans made
Atheism
Doesn’t believe in God
Duma
Russian assembly
Lenin
First Communist leader Of Soviet Union
Bloody Sunday
Peaceful march through streets of St. Petersburg To the czar’s winter palace
Provisional Government
Temporary government in Russia
Rasputin
Priest believed to have saved Alexis
Albert Einstein
German scientist
Sigmund Freud
Father of psychology
Charles Lindbergh
First to fly solo nonstop from New York to Paris
Weimer republic
Weak Government of Germany post-World War II
Buying on margin
Buying stocks for only 20% of the value
Great depression
Severe economic trouble after stock market crash
Gandhi
Used nonviolence to get British out of India
Appeasement
Giving into commands to keep peace
Assembly line
Workers add parts to a product that moves along
Model T
Ford’s first car
Business cycle
Expansion, Peak, contraction, trough, repeat
Benito Mussolini
Fascist leader of Italy
Adolf Hitler
Fascist leader of Germany
Mein Kampf
Book written by Hitler
Kristallnacht
Night of the broken glass
Munich conference
Appease Hitler with Northern Czechoslovakia
Nonaggression pact
Germany and Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other
Blitzkrieg
Lightning war; planes, tanks, infantry
Maginot line
French defense system built after world War II
Battle of Midway
Stops Japanese drive to Hawaii
Battle of the Bulge
Germany’s last offensive
D day
Allies invaded France at Normandy “operation overload”
Kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Japanese cities A-bomb by the US in World War II
Manhattan Project
Codename for development of the atomic bomb
Pearl Harbor
I date which will live in infamy
Stalin
Dictator of Soviet Union
Truman
President after FDR dies; atomic bombs
FDR
Pres. of the US during World War II
Churchhill
England’s Prime Minister during World War II
Third Reich
Name of Hitler’s Empire
Island hopping
The allies strategy to win back territory
Cold War
Climate of icy tension that existed between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty organization; anti-Soviet military alliance
Warsaw Pact
Communist military alliance between Soviet Union and s
Iron Curtain
Churchill said that this fell across eastern Europe
Berlin airlift
United States flies in supplies for nearly one year in Germany
Khrushchev
De-Stalinization
Brezhnev
Re-Stalinization
Truman doctrine
US will help any country against communism
Marshall plan
Money to aid Europe after World War II
Berlin wall
Built in 1961 to keep people from leaving East Germany
Mao Tse-Tung
Leader of Chinese communists
Chang Kai-shek
Pres. of nationalistic Republic of China ends up in Taiwan
Korean War
North Korea attacks out; ends in the 38th parallel
Vietnam War
North attacks South first and only lost for US
Escalation
Sending more Men to Vietnam LBJ
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Congress gave LBJ the authority to do what’s necessary in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of Vietnam
Domino theory
Believe that the fall of one S. East Asian country to communism would need to the fall of its neighbors
Pol Pot
Communist leader of Cambodia
OPEC
Organization of petroleum exporting countries
Cuban missile Crisis
13 days standoff between US and Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba
Elastic good
Substitutes available
Inelastic good
Necessity insulin
Petrodollars
Money for oil
Alan Shepard
First American in space
Saigon
Capital of South Vietnam
Fidel Castro
Communist leader of Cuba
Decolonization
Empires breaking up, Independence for colonies
Geneva Accords
Vietnam split at 17th parallel and there’ll be a national election to unite country
Brezhnev doctrine
Soviets may intervene in satellites at any time
Counterculture
Go against Norm, hippies
Baby boom
Population explosion after World War II
Afrikaners
Dutch descendents in south Africa
Apartheid
Segregation in South Africa
Abdicate
To step down from power
Shah of Iran
Dictator of Iran and the US supports
Ayatollah Khomeini
Overthrew the shah and leader during the Iran hostage crisis
Solidarity
Polish labor union
Desert Storm
US and allies versus Iraq during the 90s
Gorbachev
Soviet leader after Andropov; says glasnost, perestroika, and democraticization
Glasnost
Openness
Perestroika
Economic reforms
Democraticization
Free elections
Boris Yeltsin
First elected leader of Russia
Tiananmen Square
Student protests for individual rights that is broken up by the military
500 day plan
Gorbachev’s program to overcome the economic crisis in the Soviet Union by transitioning into market economy
Hardliners
Communist conservatives who oppose change
Operation restore hope
US military involvement in Somalia trying to feed people
Bantustans
Black homelands in South Africa