Last Quiz Flashcards
Allied Troops in 1915
UK, Russia, and France
Allied Troops in 1917
UK, Russia, France, and USA
Central Power (Axis) Troops
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkish Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
What did Czech representatives want prior to WWI in regards to the Austrian-Hungarian Empire?
Autonomy, not independence
Czech’s vision of Austroslavism
The reconsctruction of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire to a Democratic Federation of equal nations
Why did Czechs not like the war?
- Opposed allegiance with Germans
- Threat of Germanization
- Opposed war against French (loved French culture) and Russian (Slavic brothers)
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
Leader of Czech foreign resistance and push for Czech independence
Russia in 1917 and 1918
Created a Communist government and signed a peace treaty with the Central Powers
The death of Franz Josef I occurred when?
1916
Who became emperor of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire in 1917?
Charles I
The Czechoslovak Legions
Czech and Slovak militants as well as A-H empire deserters who
What happened to the empires and monarchies during WWI
They were destroyed and independent states formed
What developed from the extinction of the Russian Empire?
Finland and Baltic states
- Formation of Soviet Union by Lenin
What developed from the extinction of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire?
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia
The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
Negotiations of states who were victorious
Treaty of Versailles of 1919
Germany becoming the Weimar Republic with democratic constitution (until Hitler’s takeover in 1933)
Treaty of Trianon with Hungary of 1920
Hungary was forced to surrender their Slovak territory to Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia’s government system
Parliamentary Democracy (inspired by US and French constitutions)
Czech lands were which part of AH Empire (after WWI)?
Austrian part
Slovakian lands were which part of AH Empire (after WWI)?
Hungarian part
Biggest difference between Slovak and Czech after Czechoslovakia was formed following WWI
Slovaks were poor, uneducated, and were used to an agricultural society
German Minority
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Neville Chamberlain, the main representative of the appeasement policy, was the prime minister of:
Great Britain
Nazi Germany implemented the ANSCHLUSS in March 1938, which was the annexation of?
Austria
Write the names of 4 successor states which were created in the AH territory after WWI (1918)
1) Czechoslovakia
2) Austria
3) Hungary
4) Yugoslavia
A unique Czech style of artitecture, popular in the WWI period:
Cubism
Karel Capek, who introduced the word ‘robot’, was a:
Playwright Dramatist
The Munich agreement, signed in 1938, was was:
THe permission of Great Britain and France for Hitler’s annexation of part of Czechoslovakia
German immigrants settled in the 13th century into the mountains between Austria and Germany into which region?
Sudetenland
German Irredentism
Denial of the right to self-determination
Rise of the Fascist the movement occurred when and was led by who?
1922 Mussolini
What’s the concentration camp called in the Czech Republic?
Terezin
Czechoslovakian soldiers escaped German occupation and did what:
Joined the USSR, France, and Great Britain
- many helped as pilots in the Battle of Britain
Which are the 2 centers for German resistance abroad?
- London, led by Eduard Benes (Czechoslovak democrat)
- Moscow
Nazis did what to Czech universities?
Closed all of them on November 17th, 1939, later declared as ‘International Student’s Day’
What’s the most famous act of Czechoslovak resistance?
Assassination of Heydrich
Village annihilated by Nazis as revenge for Heydrich’s murder:
Lidice
The US Army occupied which Czechoslovak city before liberating West Bohemia?
Pilsen (city of beer)
Post-war political system:
Limited Democracy/People’s democracy led by Eduard Benes
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia
Allied forces authorized the expulsion of over 10 million German citizens
in 1946 who won the Political elections in Czech Republic?
Communist Party (CPC)
After the communists took power of Czechoslovakia in 1946, it became a part of:
The Eastern Soviet Block, eventually becoming 1 of the Satellite States
Which are the Satellite (Communist) States
East Germany Poland Czechoslovakia Hungary Romania Bulgaria USSR
What does the term, ‘Iron Curtain’ mena?
Winston Churchill’s fear of Communism spreading from the East to West
Rejection of the Marshall Plan
Initiative for America to aid Europe post-WWII which was rejected by all satellite states
The Cold War lasted from?
1947 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991
Idelogical struggles in the Cold War (components of Cold War):
- Arms Race (nuclear escalation)
- Espionage (KGB x CIA)
What happened in the 1948 Coup d’etat?
Communist leader Gottwald forced weak President Benes to hand over the government to the Communist regime
When was NATO created
1949
Dictatorship of Proletariat meant:
The birth of real socialism, quick Sovietization (adoption of USSR political system) and CZ declaring itself a People’s Republic
Communist Political Trials:
Communists would torture opposers and force them to admit guilt on publicized media
What was State Security Secret Policy?
Communists trying to repress the people
What is the name of the Communist concentration camp near Prague?
Vojna, where prisoners mined Uranium
When did Stalin die?
1953 (end of the development of Eastern Bloc)
Who was the new leader of the USSR after Stalin died?
Nikita Khrushchev
- Very liberal chill guy
- Eliminated concentration camps
The Warsaw Pact (1955-1991)
Military organization created in the Eastern Bloc to counter NATO
Neo-Stalinism
Going back to Stalin-ism style Communism after removal of Khruschev (end of relative Liberalism)
