Semester 2 final review Flashcards
Untouchables
Untouchables were people of the lowest class in India.
Surrealism
Surrealism is an attempt to portray the working of the unconscious mind.
Militarism
Militarism is the glorification of the military.
Nationalism
Nationalism is loyalty to one’s country
Imperialism
Imperialism is the rush to plant flags over as many people and as much territory as possible.
Ultimatum
Ultimatum is do this or else.
Flappers
Flappers were young women that rejected old ways in favor of new exciting freedom.
5 years plan
The 5 years plan was a plan to increase industrial output and agricultural output.
Total War
Total war is when all resources go to war effort.
Propaganda
Propaganda is one sided information.
Armistice
Armistice is to cease fire.
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Russian participation in World War I.
Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks were the communist group that took over Russia after the civil war.
Reparations
Reparation is money for war damages.
Boycott
Boycott is to withdraw from an event, commercial, or social relations as a punishment or a protest.
Venustainia Caranza
Venustainia Caranza was the first elected president in Mexico.
Collectivization
Collectivization is the forcible consolidation of peasant farmers into large state controlled farms.
Gulag
Gulag was a system of labor camps in Russia.
United Nations
U.N. is an international organization that helped increase political and economic cooperation among the members.
VE Day
VE day was victory day in Europe.
Chancellor
Chancellor was the title held by the prime minister.
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a poster that promotes women to help out in factories.
Good Neighbor Policy
Good Neighbor was FDR’s promise that the U.S will interfere less with Latin America.
Surrealism
Surrealism is an attempt to portray the working of the unconscious mind.
Nicholas II
Nicholas II was the last czar of Russia.
U boats
U Boats are the nicknames for the German submarines.
Atheism
Atheism is not believing in God.
Duma
Duma was a legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia.
Lenin
Lenin promised to pull Russian troops out of World War I, and he became the first communist president. He promised peace, land, and bread.
Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday was when Russian soldiers shot and killed people marching to Czar’s winter palace.
Provisional Government
The Provisional Government was a temporary government in Russia that stayed in World War I.
Rasputin
Rasputin was an illiterate peasant that self proclaimed himself a “holy man”. The tsarina came to him hoping that he could help her son.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein was best known for being one of the greatest physicists of all time and saying E=mc squared.
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was the father of psychology.
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh was an American aviator who is best known for flying across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, Spirit of St. Louis.
Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic signed the Treaty of Versailles.
Buying on Margin
Margin is buying stocks for 20% of their value.
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a financial panic that started with the stock market crash in the United States, banks closed, under consumption, overproduction, and uneven distribution of wealth.
Gandhi
Gandhi launched several nonviolent actions against British rule.
Appeasement
Appeasement is giving into demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace.
Assembly Line
The assembly line was a new method of production. Workers on an assembly line add parts to a product that moves along a belt from one workstation to the next.
Model T
Model T was one of the most bought cars in the United States that was made using assembly lines and giving many people jobs.
Business Cycle
Business cycle was expansion, peak, contraction, and trough.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini was the fascist leader of Italy.
Nazi - Soviet Pact
Nazi - Soviet Pact bound Hitler and Stalin to peaceful relationships.
Blitzkrieg
Blitzkrieg was the German name for the Lighting war, and Hitler’s strategy for winning battles.
Luftwaffe
Luftwaffe was the Nazi air force.
Vichy
The Vichy was a puppet government in France.
Rosie the Riveter
Rosie the Riveter was a poster that promoted women to help out in factories.
D-Day
D-Day was an invasion by the allies in Normandy France.
Yalta Conference
Yalta Conference was a meeting between FDR, Churchill, and Stalin.
Third Reich
Third Reich was the name for Hitler’s empire.
VE
VE Day was victory day in Europe.
Bataan Death March
Bataan Death March was when Japanese POWs were forced to march miles.
Island Hopping
Island hopping was a strategy used by the United States to get from island to island.
Kamikaze
The Kamikazes were Japanese suicide planes.
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan project was a research and development undertaking during WWII that produced the first nuclear weapons.
Nuremberg
Nuremberg was the center of the Nazi regime.
U.N.
U.N. is an international organization that helped increase political and economic cooperation among the members.
Fascism
Fascism is a government that is led by a dictator.
Maginot Line
The Maginot line was the defense for France.
HJ
HJ was known as HItler’s Youth.
Lebensraum
Lebensraum was the land that the Nazis supposedly needed to grow.
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a surprise attack against the Allied forces.
Ultra
Ultra was the german code breaker.
Big Three
The big three were Stalin, Churchill, and FDR
RAF
RAF is the Royal Air Force in Britain.
Iron Curtain
Iron Curtain was a quote from Winston Churchill describing the east and west European countries.
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift was 324 days of flying supplies into West Berlin.
Khrushchev
Khrushchev came up with de-stalinization.
Brezhenev
Brezhenev was the leader with the idea of re-stalinization.
Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine was U.S aid for countries that weren’t communist in Europe.
Marshall Plan
The Marshall plan was economic aid for everyone.
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier between Eastern and Western Berlin.
Mao Tse-Tung
Mao Tse-tung was the communist leader of China.
Chiang Kia-Shek
Chiang Kai-Shek was a former president of the Republic of China
Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North Korea, South Korea, and the U.S. because the North Korean communist army crossed the 38th parallel.
Vietnam War
Vietnam was the first loss for the United States.
Escelation
Escalation is when LBJ sends more and more men to Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was when the president may do what is necessary in Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi Minh was the communist leader of North Vietnam.
Domino Theory
The Domino Theory is that more countries will become communist if other countries around it do.
Pol Pot
Pol Pot was the former prime minister of Cambodia.
O.P.E.C
O.P.E.C was an organization of petroleum exporting countries.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13 day standoff between the U.S. and the Soviets.
Elastic Good
Elastic goods are one change in a price that leads to a major shift in demand.
Inelastic good
Inelastic goods are a change in price that don’t affect the demand much.
Petrodollars
Petrodollars is money for oil.
Alan B Shepard
Alan B. Shepard was the second and the first American to travel into space and he later walked on the moon.
Saigon
Saigon was the capital of South Vietnam that was captured by the North Vietnamese ending the Vietnam War.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro was the communist leader of Cuba.
Decolonization
Decolonization is independence for colonies. Empires were breaking up.
Geneva Accords
Geneva Accords is when Vietnam was split at the 17th parallel and there will be a national election to unify the country.
Brezhnev Doctrine
Brezhnev Doctrine the Soviets may intervene with satellites at any time.
Counter Culture
Counter Culture was when members of the baby boom went against the normals.
Baby Boom
Baby boom was a population explosion after WWII.
Afrikaners
Afrikaners were Dutch descendants in South Africa.
Apartheid
The Apertheid was the racial segregation between South Africans and Whites.
Shah of Iran
Shah of Iran was the king in Iran.
Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini was the former supreme leader of Iran.
Abdicate
Abdicate is to step down from power.
Solidarity
Solidarity is an independent labor union.
Desert Storm
Desert Storm was an operation to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control.
Gorbachev
Gorbachev made the Soviet Union back into Russia and citizens now had a say.
Glasnost
Glasnost is openness.
Perestroika
Perestroika is restructuring of the government and the country.
Democraticization
Democraticization is the introduction of democratic system and principles.
Boris Yeltsin
Boris Yeltsin was the first president of Russia.
Tiananmen Square
Tiananmen Square is the area where there were student led protests about democracy.
500 Day plan
The 500 day plan was a plan to rescue Russia’s economy.
Hard Liners
Hard Liners was a term used to describe the Soviet’s communism.
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein was the 5th president of Iraq.
Bantustans
Bantustans was a area made for natives or blacks.
Kim Il-Song
Kim Il-Song was the founder of North Korea.
Juche
Juche is the political ideology of North Korea.
Intifada
Intifada is an uprising or rebellion.
