World History Exam Flashcards
A tax placed on foreign goods; didn’t work
Smoot Hawley Tariff
He believed the government should have a limited role in the economy
Hoover
A plan to help the U.S. get out of the depression
New Deal
He believed that the government should take an active role in the economy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was the leader of the Bolshevik party
Vladimir Lenin
Decided to lead Russia in WWI with no military experience
Czar Nicholas II
He was an advisor to the royal family who had mystical powers
Rasputi
A trading company that ruled India
The British East India Company
Why was the Sepoy Mutiny significant?
It led to direct British rule in India
How did the British rule affect the Indian textile industry?
The British closed Indian textile factories, which devastated the industry
The day the stock market crashed
Black Tuesday- Oct. 29, 1929
Requiring the use of all society’s resources in war
Total war
Info designed to influence people’s opinions in order to encourage support of the war effort
Propaganda
A formal agreement to stop fighting
Armistice
A treaty named after the French palace of Versailles, punished the Germans
Treaty of Versailles
Took over after the fall of the czar
Aleksandr Kerensky
A top Bolshevik official
Leon Trotsky
A secret message from German diplomat Arthur Zimmerman to officials in Mexico in which Germany proposed that Mexico attack the United States
Zimmerman Note
Fighting from trenches
Trench warfare
Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace
Fourteen Points
The organization Wilson envisioned in his fourteen points
League of Nations
Any ship traveling in waters around Great Britain was subject to attack by German submarines, under this policy
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
The archduke of Austria-Hungary
Franz Ferdinand
Germany, Italy, and Japan were what powers?
The axis powers
Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and later the United States were what powers?
The allied powers
(Blank) is invaded by Germany and starts WWII
Poland
Germany sends thousands of aircrafts over Britain in bombing raids known as…
The Battle of Britain
Czechoslovakia was split up and the Sudetenland was given to Germany
The Munich Conference
Giving in to aggressive demands in order to maintain peace
Appeasement
A war tactic that emphasized speed and close coordination between planes in the air and fast-moving forces on the ground
Blitzkrieg
The desire to avoid involvement in the affairs of other nations
Isolationism
An authoritarian form of government that places the food of the nation above all else
Fascism
Japanese pilots who loaded their planes with explosives and deliberately crashed into Allied ships, sacrificing their own lives in the process
Kamikazes
An agreement in which each side promises not to attack the other
Nonaggression pact
Skipping over Japanese strongholds and capturing weaker targets
Island Hopping
True or False: the militarization of Rhineland violated the Treaty of Versailles
True
True or False: The United States provided military aid to Great Britain before entering the war
True
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
True
True or False: The Atlantic Charter was Roosevelt and Churchill’s joint declaration proclaiming what they viewed as the purpose of going to war
True
True or False: Hitler’s Final Solution included less restrictive laws benefiting Germany’s Jewish population
False
