Final Study Guide Flashcards
The three countries of the triple Entente
Russia, France, and Britain
The three counties of the Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire
What were the details of the Schlieffen Plan in WWI
was the German military strategy to
Quickly defeat France and then focus on Russia in the east
Although the Allies won the War, what country did not enjoy the benefits because it surrendered to Germany almost a year before Germany was defeated?
Russia
The spark that started the War occurred when the future leader of what region was assassinated?
Austria-Hungary
On which front did the Germans battle the French?
western
the estimated human costs on the WWI battlefields according to your book
8.5 million dead soldiers, 21 million wounded
What treaty between the Allied powers and Germany was signed exactly 5 years after the assassination of Francis Ferdinand?
Treaty of Versailles
What was the final straw that brought the U.S. into WWI against Germany? What was the name of the message from Germany to Mexico?
Zimmerman telegram promising that Germany will help Mexico recover the Texas land they lost
The Boom refers to the decade of the
1920s
The Bust refers to the decade of the
1930s
The War that followed the Bust is
WWII
80 percent of Americans in 1929 have no ________ at all.
savings
A major cause of the Great Depression was the ___ artificially manipulating interest rates.
FED
The AAA (a New Deal Agency) had __________ pigs slaughtered and burned at a time when many Americans were hungry and out of work.
6 million
What comes the closest to the highest rate of unemployment during the Great Depression?
25%;1 in 4 people
states that were directly affected by the “Dust Bowl” that hit the Great Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
Colorado
Kansas
What were “Hoovervilles”?
shanty towns built by unemployed Americans during the Great Depression. Mostly made of cardboard
What was the Bonus Army?
veterans who wanted immediate pay for their military service during the great depression
During the mid-to-late 1920s (even before the Great Depression Started), how were farmers affected by the low prices of wheat?
wheat prices decreased over 50% due to customer demand, and farmers suffered from low income due to price demands.
What is “Buying on margin”?
Investing with loans
What is Social Security”?
Most popular New Deal Program that still exists today. Old age pension
Name the 2 the presidents during the Great Depression
Herbert Hoover and FDR
What is a Flapper?
young western women who had bobbed hair and worse skirts, danced a lot to jazz music
“The chief business of the American people is __________.” (who said it?)
business, Calvin Coolidge
This section featured information about the New Deal
Great Depression parts 1 & 2
This section focused on Communism and its spread to the USA
Red Scare
This section was about the first Transatlantic flight
Lucky Lindy
This section described and incident where science came into conflict with religious belief
Monkey Trial
This section featured information about Louis Armstrong
All that Jazz
these countries were ruled by fascist dictators by the end of the 1930s.
Spain
Italy
Germany
The earliest incident leading up to WWII in Asia was Japan invading _________ in 1931. It is a region of China.
Manchuria
These two world leaders signed a nonaggression pact one week before the invasion of Poland that started WWII. (Also, they secretly divided Poland among themselves)
Stalin and Hitler
the 3 following factors that kept countries from challenging the expanding Axis empires
A global depression
Memories of WWI
The belief in isolationism
What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938? Did Hitler keep his promise?
The leaders of Britain, France, and Italy agreed to the German annexation of the Sudetenland in exchange for a pledge of peace from Hitler. Hitler did not keep his promise of peace when he later occupied the rest of czechoslovakia.
the 3 major Axis Powers in WWII
Germany, Italy, and Japan
why the Maginot Line failed and what it was
It was an array of defenses that France built along its border with Germany in the 1930s, designed to prevent an invasion. It failed because it was not mobile and it assumed that the Ardennes (rough terrain) was impenetrable.
D-Day refers to who invades whom?
The allies invading Normandy, which was occupied by Germany
What was the German war strategy used in WWII to overwhelm the enemy?
Blitzkrieg
What battle is considered the major turning point in the war against Japan in the Pacific
Battle of Midway, Allied victory