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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

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Goals to a rapid industrial growth, stronger national defense and the modernization of Soviet economy

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The great purge

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Eliminated anyone opposed to Stalin

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Totalitarian

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Was set up by Joseph Stalin

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Leon Trotsky

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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

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Had secret police, indoctrination,censorship collective farms, and removed all religions

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What two groups did the Marxist split into?

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Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

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Jiang Jieshi

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He promised democracy and political rights to all Chinese military leaders who start revolutions against communism

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Sun Yixian

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The leader of the Kuomintang that starts the revolutionary mood

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Mel Zedong

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Communist leader in China who recruited peasants over to communism

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Salt March

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Gandhi walked 240 in a protest march to evaporate saltwater

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Reza Shah Pahlavi

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Embark on a program of modernization after seizing power in Iran

36
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What happened under the leader of turkey?

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Mustangs Kemal embarked on a program of modernization after becoming the first president

37
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What is the Amritsar massacre?

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Occurred as a result of Indian demonstrators against British Laws

38
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Three principals of the people ; who was it developed by?

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Sun Yixian

39
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What happened when Japan invaded China during the China revolution?

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China’s communist and anti-communists formed a truce to stop fighting each other so they could fight Japan

40
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Weimar Republic

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Uncontrollable inflation and a lack of democratic tradition in Germany

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New Deal

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Ends the great depression in the United States

42
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Who was the interpretation of dreams written by

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Sigmund Freud

43
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Dawes Plan

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Help stabilize the German economy

44
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What did President Franklin Roosevelt do to improve the depression in the United States

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He created large public works programs to increase economy

45
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What was the newest form of music in the 1920s

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Jazz

46
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What was the response to poor production in the United States

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Congress increased tariffs on imports

47
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What’s the key difference between fascism and communism

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Communism had A classless society

48
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Axis powers

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Italy Japan and Germany

49
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When did Germany invade the Rhineland

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In 1963

50
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What was the symbol of the Nazi party

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The swastika

51
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This is a term used to describe the attack on German Jews by Nazi mobs

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Kristallnacht

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The Munich Conference

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A meeting between Germany France Italy and Britain hoping to avoid war

53
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Why did Japan invaded Manchuria

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For its raw materials and Ores

54
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What is the Sudetenland?

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A section of western Czechoslovakia taken by Hitler

55
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What were the SS and the SA

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Hitler special police and protection guards

56
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List the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council

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China, United States, Soviet Union, France, Britian

57
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Kamikaze

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Suicide pilots that targeted US Ships

58
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Who led the victorious battle of El Alamein

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General Bernard Montgomery

59
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How did the allied forces deceive Hitler on D-Day

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By having him think the attack would happen at Calais

60
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Which general drew up the Japanese Constitution

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Douglas MacArther

61
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What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?

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The nazis

62
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What led to the Defeat of Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad?

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The combination of the Russian Winter and Russian troops

63
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The demilitarization was overseen by which country?

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The United States Army

64
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Where were Japanese Americans sent because of their ancestry?

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They were sent to relocation camps

65
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What marked the end of the German offensive?

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The Battle of the Bulge

66
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What was the largest attack and invasion in the history of the world?

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The D-Day invasion

67
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Who was the first leader of the People’s Republic of China?

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Mao Zeadong

68
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The Vietcong were made mostly of…

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Pro-communist south Vietnamese

69
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Why did Chinease either the Korean War?

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When the fighting was nearing the Chinease border

70
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Vietnamization

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Allowed Americans to withdraw themselves fro the Vietnam war

71
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Who was the south Vietnam leader?

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Ngo Dinh Diem

72
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Who was the north Vietnam leader?

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Hi Chi Minh

73
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What brought Great Britain and France into World War ll?

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The invasion of Poland

74
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Atlantic Charter

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Declaration of the right to freedom of trade

75
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What advantage did the British have over the Germans during the blitz on Britain ?

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Britain had a radar and the Germans did not

76
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How did the United States do in response to the Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia?

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They cut oil supplies to Japan

77
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What was the Maginot Line?

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A heavily fortified defense like of the French located between France and Germany

78
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Operation Sea Lion

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Nazi’s plan to invade the United Kingdom after the fall of France

79
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Operation Torch

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British- American invasion of North Africa

80
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Operation Barbarossa

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German invasion of the Soviet Union

81
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Enigma

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The German code cracker machine

82
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Genocide

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The term referring to a large killing of a population of people

83
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Who was the prime minister of Britain that vowed to never give up ?

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Winston Churchill

84
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Charles de Gaulle

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A French general that set up government in Britain

85
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Benito Mussolini

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The fascist leader of Italy this worked a long side Hitler

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