Terms

Question 1

Great Purge

Answer 1

campaign of terror in the Soviet Union which Stalin wanted to eliminate all the communist party members

Question 2

Holocaust

Answer 2

Mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians carried by the Nazi government of Germany

Question 3

Iron Curtain

Answer 3

Boundary separating the communist nations of Eastern Europe from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe

Question 4

Isolationism

Answer 4

A policy of avoiding political or military involvement with other countries

Question 5

Kamikaze

Answer 5

Japanese suicide pilots trained to sink allied ships

Question 6

League of Nations

Answer 6

International association formed after WWI with the goal of keeping peace among nations

Question 7

Lebensraum

Answer 7

“Living space” the additional territory that Germany needed because it was crowded

Question 8

Long March

Answer 8

A 6,000 mile journey by Chinese communist fleeing from Jiang Jieshis nationalist forces

Question 9

Marshall Plan

Answer 9

A U.S. Program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII

Question 10

Mein Kampf

Answer 10

“My Struggle” a book written by Adolf Hitler while he was in prison

Question 11

Militarism

Answer 11

A policy of glorifying military power and keeping a standing army always prepared for war

Question 12

NATO

Answer 12

Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization

Defensive military alliance formed by 10 European nations , U.S. and Canada

Question 13

Pearl Harbor

Answer 13

Cultural elements : sports , music, food : that reflects a group common background and changing interests

Question 14

Proletariat

Answer 14

The group of workers who would overthrow czar and come to rule Russia

Question 15

Propaganda

Answer 15

Information or material spread to advance a cause or to damage an opponents cause

Question 16

Rationing

Answer 16

Limiting amounts of goods people can buy

Question 17

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 17

Germany’s military plan at the outbreak of WWI

German troops would rapidly defeat France and then move easy to attack Russia

Question 18

Soviets

Answer 18

One of the local representative councils formed in Russia after the downfall of czar Nicholas II

Question 19

Third Reich

Answer 19

The third German empire established by Adolf Hitler

Question 20

Total War

Answer 20

A conflict on which the participation countries devote all their resources to the war effort

Question 21

Triple Alliance

Answer 21

A military alliance between Germany Austria Hungary and Italy in the years preceding WWI

Question 22

Triple Entente

Answer 22

A military alliance between Great Britain, France, and Russia in the years preceding WWI

Question 23

Truman Doctrine

Answer 23

Announced by President Truman in 1947, a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents

Question 24

United Nations

Answer 24

An internal peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world

Question 25

Warsaw Pact

Answer 25

A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries

Question 26

Weimar Republic

Answer 26

The republic that was established in Germany in 1919 and ended 1933