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World History Exam Flashcards

1
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A tax placed on foreign goods; didn’t work

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Smoot Hawley Tariff

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2
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He believed the government should have a limited role in the economy

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Hoover

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3
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A plan to help the U.S. get out of the depression

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New Deal

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4
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He believed that the government should take an active role in the economy

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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5
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He was the leader of the Bolshevik party

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Vladimir Lenin

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6
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Decided to lead Russia in WWI with no military experience

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Czar Nicholas II

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7
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He was an advisor to the royal family who had mystical powers

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Rasputi

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8
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A trading company that ruled India

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The British East India Company

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9
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Why was the Sepoy Mutiny significant?

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It led to direct British rule in India

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10
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How did the British rule affect the Indian textile industry?

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The British closed Indian textile factories, which devastated the industry

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11
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The day the stock market crashed

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Black Tuesday- Oct. 29, 1929

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12
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Requiring the use of all society’s resources in war

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Total war

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13
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Info designed to influence people’s opinions in order to encourage support of the war effort

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Propaganda

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14
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A formal agreement to stop fighting

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Armistice

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15
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A treaty named after the French palace of Versailles, punished the Germans

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Treaty of Versailles

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16
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Took over after the fall of the czar

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Aleksandr Kerensky

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17
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A top Bolshevik official

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Leon Trotsky

18
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A secret message from German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman to officials in Mexico in which Germany proposed that Mexico attack the United States

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Zimmerman Note

19
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Fighting from trenches

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Trench warfare

20
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Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace

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Fourteen Points

21
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The organization Wilson envisioned in his fourteen points

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League of Nations

22
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Any ship traveling in waters around Great Britain was subject to attack by German submarines, under this policy

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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare

23
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The archduke of Austria-Hungary

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Franz Ferdinand

24
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Germany, Italy, and Japan were what powers?

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The axis powers

25
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Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and later the United States were what powers?

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The allied powers

26
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(Blank) is invaded by Germany and starts WWII

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Poland

27
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Germany sends thousands of aircrafts over Britain in bombing raids known as…

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The Battle of Britain

28
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Czechoslovakia was split up and the Sudetenland was given to Germany

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The Munich Conference

29
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Giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace

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Appeasement

30
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A war tactic that emphasized speed and close coordination between planes in the air and fast-moving forces on the ground

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Blitzkrieg

31
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The desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations

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Isolationism

32
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An authoritarian form of government that places the food of the nation above all else

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Fascism

33
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Japanese pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into Allied ships, sacrificing their own lives in the process

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Kamikazes

34
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An agreement in which each side promises not to attack the other

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Nonaggression pact

35
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Skipping over Japanese strongholds and capturing weaker targets

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Island Hopping

36
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True or False: the militarization of Rhineland violated the Treaty of Versailles

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True

37
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True or False: The United States provided military aid to Great Britain before entering the war

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True

38
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True or False: Many German Jews could not flee Nazi Germany because the United States and many European nations would not allow them to enter

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True

39
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True or False: The Atlantic Charter was Roosevelt and Churchill’s joint declaration proclaiming what they viewed as the purpose of going to war

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True

40
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True or False: Hitler’s Final Solution included less restrictive laws benefiting Germany’s Jewish population

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False

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