modern world Flashcards
What nation destabilized the balance of power in Europe in the years before WW1 w it’s increasing military and industry?
Germany
What was the name of the alliance that Germany formed with Italy and Austria Hungary to protect itself from France?
The triple Alliance
As Ottoman power declined the Balkan Peninsula became unstable due to….
Ethnic nationalism among balkan people
How did many Eurpoeans react to the outbreak of war in August 1914?
Welcomed the war with patriotic celebration
With the Schlieffen Plan Germany planned to win the war by….
Quickly knocking out france with the fighting
New military technologies used during WW1 resulted in….
Unprecedented bloodshed
During the war, nations began to print a lot of paper money because…
They had difficulty of paying for the war
9)Why did the US remain neutral when WW1 first broke out?
All of the above
In battle, both sides dug in and the offensive attacks stalled meaning nobody was winning. This is called…….
Stalemate
10) Which German tactic eventually drew the US into WW1?
The US submarines against merchants ships
11) The treaty of Versailles signed by Germany and the Allied Powers…
Required germany to accept the responsibility for starting the war
12) Why did Russia lose territory at the Paris Peace Conference even though it had been on the winning side of ww1?
Russia was to weak to hold on to its empire
13) Which of the following is a reason why the US Senate rejected membership in the League of Nations?
They feared the league would draw the US into foreign wars
14) What happened to the territorial possessions lost by Germany and the Ottoman Empire in Africa & the Middle east?
These territories became mandates under league supervision
The last czar to rule russia was
Nicholas ll
The February Revolution resulted in
Nicholas ll giving up his throne
How did Alexander the ll’s policies inspire revolutionary groups to form
They encouraged critical public discussion of political and social issues
Which of these Best describes attitudes most Russians had towards ww1?
They supported the war at first but protested it after economic hardships
The white armies were hindered during the civil war because they…
Were divided by both geography and the causes for which they were fighting
After the Russian Civil war, the government took over all private businesses and industries and controlled production. This was called..
War communism
Under the new economic policy, Lenin…
Relaxed the policies of war communism
Which statement BEST describes Latin American nations in the early 1800’s?
They were controlled by oligarchies
Economies in Central America and the Caribbean were based on the export of…
Sugar, coffee, and bananas
Which of the following actions might have been taken by a caudillo?
Using force to take power
How did the Mexican revolution affect other Latin American nations?
It influenced them to adopt reforms
Wearing the traditional fez hat was banned in the 1920s in Turkey in an effort to…
Modernize & Westernize
The mandate system created by the League of Nations after ww1 granted control of larger parts of the Middle East to….
Great Britain & France
Britain announced the support for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine in the…
Balfour Declaration
The Ottoman Empire came to an end after…
The allied powers dissolved at the end of world war l
Saudi Arabia earned income from the oil that was discovered there in the 1930’s by…
Partnering with American corporations
The only Arab state to remain truly independent of Western powers between ww1 and 2 was…
Saudi Arabia
One result of the sepoy uprising in 1857 was that the rule of India was transferred to…
To the british monarchy
The uprising in 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China is known as the…
Boxer rebellion
Mohandas Gandhi’s Satyagraha movement urged Indians to resist British rule using…
Civil disobedience, some examples are boycott and Salt march
After capturing Beijing in 1949 Mao Zedong announced…
The creation of people’s republic of china
How did Italian leaders view the peace settlement that ended world war 1?
They were disappointed of f the amount of territory they were awarded
A worldwide economic depression in the 1930’s led Japan to turn to a policy of…
expansion and Militarism
Who organized a new political movement known as fascism in 1919?
38)Benito Mussolini
Mussolini believed Italy’s social and economic problems could only be managed effectively by…
A dictator
Mussolini helped Italy modernize it’s industrial sector by managing the economy according to principles of…
Corporatism
What did Mussolini believe would help restore Italy to the glory days of the ancient Roman Empire…
Invading ethiopia
Many Germans viewed the Weimar Republic as an illegitimate government because it’s leaders…
Signed the treaty of versailles
Which of the following factors helped to radicalize(extreme) German society in the years after ww1?
Out of- control inflation and unemployment
Hitlers goal of establishing a third reich meant that he wanted to…
Create a new german empire
When Hitler took power, most Germans….
Supported, or at least accepted, Nazi rule
The anti Jewish violence that took place throughout Germany on November 9 1938 was known as…
Kristallnact (night of broken glass)
Stallins first five year plan focused on…
Modernizing agriculture and industry
During the great purge in the USSR, top communist leaders…
Were forced to confess fictitious crimes
The regimes led by Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler after WW1 were similar in that they were all…
Totalism
How did the League of Nations respond when Italy invaded ethiopia?
They imposed mild economic sanctions
The term Anschluss refers to Hitler’s….
Annexation of Austria
The agreement made by France, Britain and Germany at the Munich Conference was an example of the policy of…
Appeasement
Which strategy allowed the Germans to achieve remarkable military success at the beginning of ww1?
blitzcrieg
Which nation was the last holdout against Germany’s complete domination of Europe?
Great Britain
This agreement made between Germany, Italy and Japan emphasized the countries’ support for each other.
The Tripartite pact
After Japan’s attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at pearl harbor the United states…
Entered World War ll
How did the Allied forces liberate France from the Nazi’s?
They crossed the English channel and invaded northern France
Why was Hitlers betrayal of Stalin significant in ww2?
It opened another front creating intense battle between Germany & Soviet Union
The nazi final solution was a plan to..
Exterminate The Jews of Europe
Japan surrendered in August 1945 because the U.S…
Dropped atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Historians estimate that the number of people including civilians killed in WW2 may be as high as…
60 million
Why was the Cold War called the cold war?
The two main countries involved avoided direct combat with each other
What was the main purpose of Nato and the Warsaw pact during the cold war?
They were alliances that protected countries from the other alliances
What did Winston Churchill mean by the iron curtain?
The division between communist Eastern europe and democratic Western Europe
65) During the cold war the US followed a policy of ___ to stop the spread of communism to other countries
Containment
66) compared to US goods, the goods the Soviet Union Produced were inferior in quality because…
Socialist practices led to inefficiency and waste when producing goods
