Twentieth Century Flashcards
Tension and system of alliances ignited when
Year?
Franz Ferdinand assassinated in 1914
Triple alliance:
Who vs who?
Austria-hungry, Germany, Italy
Russia, UK and France
World war 1
Triple allliance
Austria-hungry, Italy, Germany
Russia, UK, France
Trench warfare resulted from battle _
Battle of Marne
Btwn Germany and French and British forces defending France
Germans sank _ killing many American civilians
Lusitania
U.S. intervention in WW1 due to
Called?
Discovery that Germany secretly proposed an alliance with Mexico to attack the U.S.
Zimmerman telegram
Ended WW1
Held Germany accountable for rest of war
Germany forced to pay reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Created to prevent international war
Model for United Nations
League of Nations
Set stage for hitlers rise to power
Economic collapse in Germany after treaty of Versailles
Global and economic collapse = poverty and unemployment
Btwn first and Second World War
Great Depression
Start of WWII (2)
Germany invades Poland
Japan invades Manchuria, China
Turning point ofWWII
Germany defeated at battle of Stalingrad
US joined WWII when
Year?
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor
1941
War in pacific ended when president _ made the decision to _
Truman
Nuclear bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Period of ongoing conflict btwn US and USSR
*never engaged in military confrontation
Cold War
Iron curtain divided:
Eastern Europe (aligned with USSR)
West (aligned with US)
US became involved in Korean War and Vietnam war because
US wanted communism “contained”
Class War is needed to achieve a socialist society
Elimination of private property
Communism
_ established relations btwn communist China and the US
Nixon
Goal to outspend USSR on weapons technology in 1980s
Arms race
Pres. Reagan
Military overspending, soviet war in Afghanistan results in: (2)
Collapse of USSR
Gorbachev overthrown
