Unit 2: The Twentieth Century Crisis Flashcards
After the war, Britain ruled Iraq and Palestine as what?
mandates
How did Mohandas Gandhi protest British laws?
civil disobedience to protest unjust laws
Quickly turning the USSR from an agricultural to an industrial economy was done by…
Stalin
Trench warfare caused the immobilization of troops on what?
the Western Front
Under whose leadership, did the Bolsheviks become a party dedicated to violent revolution?
Lenin’s
What country did Hitler invade that resulted in Britain and France declaring war on Germany?
Poland
What did Japan do to address labor shortages?
brought in Korean and Chinese workers
What did Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill agree to do at the Tehran Conference?
agreed to a partition of postwar Germany
What does a fascist government do?
a strong central government controlled by a dictator
What does the concept of total war mean?
it involves complete mobilization of resources and people
What is the Cold War?
a period of political tension following WWII
What was Great Britain’s policy of appeasement?
was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe
What was Hitler’s form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks called?
blitzkrieg, or ‘lightning war’
What was Roosevelt’s Good Neighbor Policy?
rejected the use of U.S military force in Latin America
What was the official party of the Mexican Revolution known as?
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
What was the slaughter of European Jews by the Nazis known as?
the Holocaust
Who became the spokesperson for a new world order based on democracy and international cooperation?
Woodrow Wilson
Who did Mao Zedong lead on the Long March?
People’s Liberation Army
Who introduced many modern reforms in Turkey?
Ataturk
Who invaded Manchuria?
an extremists group of middle level Japanese officers acting without government approval
Who used methods of civil disobedience to protest unjust laws?
Ghandi
Why was the battle of Stalingrad a crushing defeat for Germany?
the entire German Sixth Army was lost
What did the Cheka begin?
Lenin’s secret police that destroyed all those who opposed the new regime
What area did Hitler demand in Northwestern Czechoslovakia?
Sudetenland
What is the Iron Curtain?
Imaginary division between Europe and the USSR
What is the Potsdam Period?
A conference in 1945 at which Truman suggested free elections throughout Eastern Europe for new govs
What was a provision of Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles?
That Germany was responsible for WWI
