Unit 1 Flash Cards

Question 1

Tsar

Answer 1

Absolute Monarch or ruler of Russia

Question 2

Proletariat

Answer 2

The lowest class in a society, referring mostly to industrial workers

Question 3

Bourgeoisie

Answer 3

The middle class

Question 4

Bolsheviek

Answer 4

Communist majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party

Question 5

Karl Marx

Answer 5

Writer of the Communist Manifesto and Ideological leader of the party

Question 6

What happened on Bloody Sunday

Answer 6

Thousands of discontented urban workers & poor peasants came to peacefully protest to petition the czar for better working conditions & suffrage. The czar’s guards ended up firing into the crowd, which sparked widespread strikes and uprisings. In this the Duma (Russian Congress) was allowed more power temporarily until he crushed the rest of the people revolting and then dissolved the Duma within weeks.

Question 7

Who was Rasputin and what was his role in the monarchy?

Answer 7

He was a mystical and self proclaimed “holy man” who did very inappropriate and bad things and had inappropriate and bad behavior. His role in the monarchy was that he very much influenced them as they came for him for advice and overall served to hurt the reputation of the monarchy.

Question 8

Who was Vladimir Lenin and what was his role in the Revolution?

Answer 8

He was the leading Marxist revolutionary committed to class struggle and revolution and his role was the leader of the Bolshevik rebels.

Question 9

Why was it called the Soviet Union

Answer 9

Because it was a union of works councils who ran one country.

Question 10

What was the result of the Russian Revolution?

Answer 10

It made Russia Communist.

Question 11

What was Executive Order 9066?

Answer 11

It was the forced relocation of Japanese Americans on the west coast to internment camps.

Question 12

Why does the U.S. enact a draft

Answer 12

To ramp up our military in terms of personnel and to spread militarism through the country.

Question 13

How did businesses change their output during wartime production?

Answer 13

They went from making their standard products to making wartime products.

Question 14

What are War Bonds?

Answer 14

They were loans where the people give the government money and the government gives them back the money with interest after the war.

Question 15

What was the purpose of Victory Gardens?

Answer 15

The purpose was to get people to grow their own food so more could go to the military.

Question 16

Choose two Cold War Technologies from our station’s assignment and tell me what their use was for and what their impact on the war was…

Answer 16

The Atomic Bomb use was to evaporate cities and create mass destruction and was used as a sign of strength. Its impact was that it ended the war and the Pacific and showed the U.S. was powerful. Higgins’s boat was used for naval invasions and its effect was that it liberated islands in the Pacific and made both D.Day’s possible making the war end much sooner if not at all.

Question 17

Who was Alan Turing?

Answer 17

He was the head of the team of scientists, mathematics, and cryptography that were tasked with breaking the Enigma Code.

Question 18

What made the Enigma Code so difficult to break?

Answer 18

It was difficult because it changed the letter numerous times and created an intricate cipher that could only be broken with another Enigma Machine using the same settings

Question 19

What was the GI Bill?

Answer 19

It was a bill that provided education, unemployment compensation, low cost home and low cost business loans for soldiers coming home from war. It also spurred the growth of the economy in the 1950s.

Question 20

What invention was able to allow Americans to move to the Southwest?

Answer 20

Air Conditioning

Question 21

What was a driving force behind the economic boom of the 1950’s?

Answer 21

Increased consumer demand from Americans buying more goods and services and legislature that leaded to more consumer spending which increased the value of the American economy.

Question 22

Who won the Presidency in 1952?

Answer 22

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Question 23

What was Truman’s Fair Deal?

Answer 23

It was social reform that increased minimum wage, rights for African Americans, and national health insurance through the housing act of 1949 and many other acts.

Question 24

What was the 22nd Amendment?

Answer 24

It was an amendment that limited presidents to 2 terms or 10 years maximum with Truman as the only exception.

Question 25

What two states are added in 1949 and 1950?

Answer 25

Alaska and Hawaii

Question 26

What was the baby boom?

Answer 26

It was a massive increase in birth rate due to the soilders returning home once the war ended.

Question 27

What is the idea of the American Dream?

Answer 27

The American Dream is the belief that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity.

Question 28

What did the idea of the nuclear family strengthen?

Answer 28

It strengthens the model for American life.

Question 29

What is Consumerism?

Answer 29

Protection and promotion of the interests of the consumer.

Question 30

What were the two sides of the Cold War?

Answer 30

The West/NATO/US vs. The East/the Warsaw Pact/Soveit Union

Question 31

What is “Containment”?

Answer 31

The policy by the US that says Communism can exist where it already is but is not allowed to spread.

Question 32

NATO

Answer 32

It was an military alliance between western nations meant to protect themselves from communism.

Question 33

Warsaw Pact

Answer 33

It was a defense alliance with the Soviet Union and its other satellite states meant to be a counter to NATO.

Question 34

Truman Doctrine

Answer 34

It was a statement that established that the United States would be dedicated to protecting the world from communism.

Question 35

United Nations

Answer 35

It is an international organization committed to maintaining international peace and security making the world a better place.

Question 36

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 36

It was a mass transportation of supplies to West Berlin to keep them alive caused when the Soviet Union blocked the West from transporting supplies to west berlin and in turn tried to starve the West out of west berlin

Question 37

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Answer 37

It was a crisis which happened when the Soviet Union moved missiles to Cuba to one, protect Cuba, and two, threaten the U.S. where then Kennedy desperately tried to get the missiles out of Cuba.

Question 38

What was the result of the Korean War?

Answer 38

The result was that the South was able to hold against the North with the help of the U.S. and push them back to almost the exact same place the border was at the beginning.

Question 39

What was the result of the Vietnam War?

Answer 39

The US pulled out of Vietnam which causes South Vietnam to surrender 2 years later which then made all of Vietnam turn Communist

Question 40

How does the Cold War end?

Answer 40

The Collapse of the Soviet Union

Question 41

Who won the Cold War? OPINION

Answer 41

The West because the Soviet Union collapsed and most major “communist countries” like China are not really communist and or are turning away from it.