Midterm Review Flashcards
A review for the first midterm for HIST 264 at Yale in Spring 2011. Most based on Encyclopedia Britannica entries.
Black Hand and White Hand
2 military conspiracy groups that carried out assasinations. The Black Hand operated within the army during the early 1900s up to about 1914. King Alexander supported a new group called White Hand during his regime.
Black Hand and White Hand -
2 military conspiracy groups that carried out assasinations. The Black Hand operated within the army during the early 1900s up to about 1914. King Alexander supported a new group called White Hand during his regime.
How were the Fourteen Points important to Eastern Europe?
9-13 are Eastern-Europe-centric. 9) Italy along national lines 10) A-H should get autonomous development 11) Serbia gets access to sea, self-determination/evacuation of other Balkan states 12) Turkish sovereignty 13) independent Poland with access to sea
In what year did Pilsudski return to power by military coup?
1926
In what year was a royal dictatorship established in Yugoslavia?
1929
In what year was the Bolshevik Revolution?
1917
In what year was the Soviet Union established?
1922
Vuk Karadzic
1787-1864. A Serbian poet who thus helped codify the language. Unfortunately for the Croatians, this language was very similar to their main dialect.
What and when was dekulakization?
- Campaign begins end of 1929
- “the liquidation of the kulak as a class.”
- Largely over by 1934.
What does “Ugoda” mean?
It means “settlement” in Polish.
What effect did the Corfu Declaration have on Croats fighting in WWI?
A demonstration of solidarity among the South Slavs, it encouraged Croats fighting in the Austrian army to join the Yugoslav movement and thereby also influenced the attitude of the Triple Entente in favour of the Yugoslavs.
What happened in the Russo-Polish War?
- 1919-1920
- Pilsudski allies with Ukrainian nationalist leader, and their combined forces begin to overrun Ukraine
- They occupy Kiev on May 7
- Soviet Red Army launches successful counteroffensive in summer
- Former Entente powers send a military mission to help Polish army.
- Russians retreat by end of summer 1921.
What is the GPU? When was it formed?
- February 6, 1922
- Cheka transforms into GPU, a department of the NKVD of the Russian SFSR.
What is the significance of Gdynia?
- Gdynia was returned from Germany to Poland by the Treaty of Versailles.
- When the German-controlled legislative assembly in Gdansk barred Poland’s use of that port’s facilities, Poland chose Gdynia as the site for its new port.
- From 1924 to 1939 Gdynia was the major Baltic port, surpassing Gdansk.
What mountain range runs through southeastern Poland, eastern Czechoslovakia, and Romania?
the Carpathians
What percent of electoral support did the Nazis have in 1928?
2.6 percent of the vote, 1928
What percent of the vote did the Nazis get in the 1932 elections?
36.2 percent of the vote
What was “Sanacja”?
- Means “cleansing”
- for Pilsudski, it means an armed demonstration to force former president to dismiss the government
What was the Petka?
- Committee of Five
- an unofficial, semi-constitutional political institution designed to cope with political difficulties during the First Republic of Czechoslovakia.
- founded in September 1920 and was made up of a council of leaders of the coalition parties that made up the Czechoslovak government at that time.
What was the capital of Bulgaria during the interwar period?
Sofia
What was the capital of Czechoslovakia in the interwar period?
Prague
What was the capital of Hungary in the interwar period?
Budapest
What was the capital of Romania in the interwar period?
Bucharest