World History ll - Final Exam Flashcards

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What did Otto Von Bismarck believe about the greatest threat to Europe?

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He believed France was the greatest threat to Europe

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How did Gavrilo Princip spark the war?

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By shooting the arch duke

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What country originally joined the triple alliance but would later switch sides in the war?

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Italy

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What was Russia’s the greatest military asset

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The big population

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Why did Britain join the war (The Great War?)

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For the protection of neutral Belgium

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Describe imperialism

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Bigger countries forcing African assimilation countries to fight with them for more military power

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Describe nationalism

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One country thinks they are better than another

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Define militarism

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Countries building up military weapons to intimidate another country

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The schlieffen plan

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A German plan to take the French out of the war and then take on the slower moving Russians

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Triple alliance

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Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy

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Triple Entente

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Britain France and Russia

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Trench warfare

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Only fought on the Western front

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League of Nations

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Members invited to the Treaty of Paris

Involved Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau

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What brought an end to the First World War?

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Armistice Paris in 1918

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Rationing

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Limited the purchase of consumer goods

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Gavrilo Princip

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Serbian member of the black hand that assassinated Franz Ferdinand

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Unrestricted submarine warfear

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Kept cargo ships from reaching Great Britain

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Propaganda

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The campaign used to influence public opinion

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14 points

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A plan for the postwar world

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Zimmerman Note

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Promised that Germany would help Mexico regain US territory

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Treaty of Breast-Litovsk

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Ended the war between Russia and Germany

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Lusitania

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A British luxury ship sunk by the Germans

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War guilt clause

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Britain and France wanted to punish Germany and to accept the war guilt clause

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NEP

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Created by Lenin to establish Russian economy and life

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Stalins five-year plan
Goals to a rapid industrial growth, stronger national defense and the modernization of Soviet economy
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The great purge
Eliminated anyone opposed to Stalin
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Totalitarian
Was set up by Joseph Stalin
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Leon Trotsky
Struggled for leadership control against Joseph Stalin after the death of Lenin
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What are some ways stolen maintain take control of Soviet affairs
Had secret police, indoctrination,censorship collective farms, and removed all religions
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What two groups did the Marxist split into?
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
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Jiang Jieshi
He promised democracy and political rights to all Chinese military leaders who start revolutions against communism
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Sun Yixian
The leader of the Kuomintang that starts the revolutionary mood
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Mel Zedong
Communist leader in China who recruited peasants over to communism
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Salt March
Gandhi walked 240 in a protest march to evaporate saltwater
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
Embark on a program of modernization after seizing power in Iran
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What happened under the leader of turkey?
Mustangs Kemal embarked on a program of modernization after becoming the first president
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What is the Amritsar massacre?
Occurred as a result of Indian demonstrators against British Laws
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Three principals of the people ; who was it developed by?
Sun Yixian
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What happened when Japan invaded China during the China revolution?
China's communist and anti-communists formed a truce to stop fighting each other so they could fight Japan
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Weimar Republic
Uncontrollable inflation and a lack of democratic tradition in Germany
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New Deal
Ends the great depression in the United States
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Who was the interpretation of dreams written by
Sigmund Freud
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Dawes Plan
Help stabilize the German economy
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What did President Franklin Roosevelt do to improve the depression in the United States
He created large public works programs to increase economy
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What was the newest form of music in the 1920s
Jazz
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What was the response to poor production in the United States
Congress increased tariffs on imports
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What's the key difference between fascism and communism
Communism had A classless society
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Axis powers
Italy Japan and Germany
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When did Germany invade the Rhineland
In 1963
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What was the symbol of the Nazi party
The swastika
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This is a term used to describe the attack on German Jews by Nazi mobs
Kristallnacht
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The Munich Conference
A meeting between Germany France Italy and Britain hoping to avoid war
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Why did Japan invaded Manchuria
For its raw materials and Ores
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What is the Sudetenland?
A section of western Czechoslovakia taken by Hitler
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What were the SS and the SA
Hitler special police and protection guards
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List the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
China, United States, Soviet Union, France, Britian
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Kamikaze
Suicide pilots that targeted US Ships
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Who led the victorious battle of El Alamein
General Bernard Montgomery
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How did the allied forces deceive Hitler on D-Day
By having him think the attack would happen at Calais
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Which general drew up the Japanese Constitution
Douglas MacArther
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What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
The nazis
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What led to the Defeat of Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad?
The combination of the Russian Winter and Russian troops
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The demilitarization was overseen by which country?
The United States Army
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Where were Japanese Americans sent because of their ancestry?
They were sent to relocation camps
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What marked the end of the German offensive?
The Battle of the Bulge
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What was the largest attack and invasion in the history of the world?
The D-Day invasion
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Who was the first leader of the People's Republic of China?
Mao Zeadong
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The Vietcong were made mostly of...
Pro-communist south Vietnamese
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Why did Chinease either the Korean War?
When the fighting was nearing the Chinease border
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Vietnamization
Allowed Americans to withdraw themselves fro the Vietnam war
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Who was the south Vietnam leader?
Ngo Dinh Diem
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Who was the north Vietnam leader?
Hi Chi Minh
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What brought Great Britain and France into World War ll?
The invasion of Poland
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Atlantic Charter
Declaration of the right to freedom of trade
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What advantage did the British have over the Germans during the blitz on Britain ?
Britain had a radar and the Germans did not
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How did the United States do in response to the Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia?
They cut oil supplies to Japan
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What was the Maginot Line?
A heavily fortified defense like of the French located between France and Germany
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Operation Sea Lion
Nazi's plan to invade the United Kingdom after the fall of France
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Operation Torch
British- American invasion of North Africa
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Operation Barbarossa
German invasion of the Soviet Union
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Enigma
The German code cracker machine
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Genocide
The term referring to a large killing of a population of people
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Who was the prime minister of Britain that vowed to never give up ?
Winston Churchill
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Charles de Gaulle
A French general that set up government in Britain
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Benito Mussolini
The fascist leader of Italy this worked a long side Hitler