World History (H)

Question 1

Colonies 6

Answer 1

A foreign nation or territory, under the control of another nation, without a full the foreign nation being full incorporated, but rather used for resources .

Question 2

Protectorate 6

Answer 2

A country with its own government, but under the control of an outside power - Puppet state

Question 3

Sphere of Influence 6

Answer 3

Area in which an outside power claims exclusive investment or trading privileges

Question 4

Proletariat 7

Answer 4

The working class

Question 5

Simon Bolivar 5

Answer 5

South American Solder and leader in the revolutions against Spain.

Question 6

Fascism 8 + 9?

Answer 6

Centralized, authoritarian government that is not communist whose polices glorify the state.

Question 7

Otto von Bismarck / Franco - Prussian War 5

Answer 7

Otto von Bismarck’s editing of the Ems Dispatch was the tipping point that he planned to cause the war.

Question 8

Giuseppe Garibaldi 5

Answer 8

Nationalist and ally of Mazzini. 1000 Red-shirts and unified Italy.

Question 9

Propaganda 7

Answer 9

Spreading of ideas to promote a cause or to damage an opposing cause.

Question 10

Total War 7

Answer 10

funneling an entire nation’s resources into the war effort

Question 11

Fourteen Points 7

Answer 11

Terms for resolving WWI by Woodrow Wilson in January 1918, included League of Nations.

Question 12

Reparations 7

Answer 12

Payment for war damage or damage caused by imprisonment

Question 13

Militarism 7

Answer 13

Glorifying war and the military

Question 14

Neutrality 7

Answer 14

Policy of supporting neither side in a war

Question 15

Benito Mussolini - Black Shirts 8

Answer 15

Created a fascists Italian Party. Black Shifts were the violent militants.

Question 16

Adolf Hitler 8

Answer 16

Chancellor of German, and WWI Solider. Leader of the Third Reich and of Nazi Germany

Question 17

Toussaint L’Ouverture 5

Answer 17

Leader of the Haitian revolt against slavery. Died, but in 1798 his revolution won.

Question 18

Totalitarian State 8

Answer 18

Government in which a one-part dictatorship regulates a citizen’s everyday life

Question 19

Kristallnacht 8

Answer 19

Night of Broken Glass, Raid of Jewish owned stores and property by Nazi’s in Germany

Question 20

The Holocaust / Nuremberg Laws 8 + 9

Answer 20

Racist and discriminatory laws against the Jewish in Germany. Forbid Jewish to marry non-Jewish, Job restrictions, etc. This lead to the Holocaust because of how they both choose to punish the Jewish, and any else that was against Nazi Germany

Question 21

Lend-Lease Act 8

Answer 21

Allowed FDR to sell or lend war supplies to countries vital to the United States

Question 22

Causes of WWI / Assassination of Franz Ferdinand 7

Answer 22

MAIN Acronym (Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism). The assassination was just the push that causes all of this tension to cause war. Pride, faith in military and allies, and protection over their colonies all caused this . Franz Ferdinand was the heir to the throne. Visiting Bosnia.

Question 23

Allied Powers / Central Powers 7

Answer 23

Germany, Austria Hungary, Ottoman Empire

Great Britain, France, US, Italy, Russia

Question 24

Appeasement 7

Answer 24

Policy of giving in to an aggressor’s demands in order to keep peace

Question 25

Blitzkrieg 9

Answer 25

Lighting war - Fast invasions

Question 26

Pacifism 9

Answer 26

Opposition to all war - No fighting

Question 27

Hiroshima 9

Answer 27

Where the first Atomic Bomb was dropped, August 1945 : Little Boy Uranium

Question 28

Nagasaki 9

Answer 28

Fat Man Plutonium-

Question 29

Superpowers 9

Answer 29

a Nation strong than other powerful nations, US + Soviet Union

Question 30

The Cold War 9

Answer 30

Tension between the United States and the Soviet Union

Question 31

Direct/Indirect Rule 6

Answer 31

Direct Rule - Actively participating or taking over a colony through military means or taking over the government fully (FRANCE) Indirect Rule - Leaving Puppets in the government to enact your rule. (BRITAIN)

Question 32

Realpolitik 5

Answer 32

Realistic Politics based on the needs of the state

Question 33

Causes of the New Imperialism 6

Answer 33

Humanitarian and Religious Goals, Social Darwinism, Industrial Revolution required raw goods.

Question 34

Social Darwinism and its Connection to Imperialism

Answer 34

The idea of natural selection that was thought by some to apply to humans. Foreign Nations were turned into colonies under the thought process of those humans being lesser than and needing to be reformed.

Question 35

Berlin Conference 6

Answer 35

European Powers meeting to avoid bloodshed, by splitting up Africa, with any Africans present.

Question 36

Importance of Ethiopia-Colonialism 6

Answer 36

Italy colonizing Ethiopia showed how weak the League of Nations truly was against any threat and how they weren't that bothered.

Question 37

Meiji Resotration 6

Answer 37

Reign of Emperor Meiji - Rapid Industrialization

Question 38

League of Nations response to Axis Powers Pre-WWII 9

Answer 38

Appeasement, basically

Question 39

Munich Conference 9

Answer 39

A failed attempt to stop WWII before it started. Forced the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland to Hitler, in exchange to stop any expansion

Question 40

Island-Hopping in the Pacific 9

Answer 40

General MacArthur Allied strategy for recaptured Japanese held island, while bypassing others.

Question 41

Laissez-faire 5 + Glossary

Answer 41

Allowing business to operate with minimal government interference

Question 42

Treaty of Versailles 7

Answer 42

Treaty made at the end of WWI, crippling Germany with debt and forcing their military to stay small.

Question 43

Ems Dispatch 5

Answer 43

A Letter from William I edited by Bismarck to make it seem like William had insulted Napoleon III , causing Napoleon to declare war on Prussia

Question 44

Sepoy Rebellion 6

Answer 44

Soldiers, named Sepoy, under the British East India Company due to the take over causing many of their traditions to be forcefully violated (Rifle Cartridge Animal )

Question 45

D-Day - Dwight Eisenhower 9

Answer 45

Code name for June 6 1944, an invasion of France by the Allied powers

Question 46

Allied/Axis Powers 9

Answer 46

Axis - Japan, Germany, Italy Allied - United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France

Question 47

Pearl Harbor 9

Answer 47

Harbor attacked by the Japanese to prevent or slow down the United States from joining WWII, backfired heavily.

Question 48

Zimmerman Note 7

Answer 48

A letter from Germany to Mexico, hoping to gain a military alliance against the United states. WWI

Question 49

VI Lenin 7

Answer 49

Brought into power during Russian Revolutions, signed treaty with Germany allowing for Russia to escape WWI. Brest-Litovsk

Question 50

Joseph Stalin 9

Answer 50

Ruler of the USSR/Soviet Union for 33 Years, and joined forces with German at the start of WWII.

Question 51

Vichy France 9

Answer 51

Where a puppet state governed unoccupied France and the French colonies

Question 52

The Marshall Plan 9

Answer 52

Aid packages from US to Europe, post WWII

Question 53

V-E Day / V-J Day 9

Answer 53

VE - Victory in Europe VJ - Victory in Japan