World History ll - Final Exam Flashcards
What did Otto Von Bismarck believe about the greatest threat to Europe?
He believed France was the greatest threat to Europe
How did Gavrilo Princip spark the war?
By shooting the arch duke
What country originally joined the triple alliance but would later switch sides in the war?
Italy
What was Russia’s the greatest military asset
The big population
Why did Britain join the war (The Great War?)
For the protection of neutral Belgium
Describe imperialism
Bigger countries forcing African assimilation countries to fight with them for more military power
Describe nationalism
One country thinks they are better than another
Define militarism
Countries building up military weapons to intimidate another country
The schlieffen plan
A German plan to take the French out of the war and then take on the slower moving Russians
Triple alliance
Germany Austria-Hungary and Italy
Triple Entente
Britain France and Russia
Trench warfare
Only fought on the Western front
League of Nations
Members invited to the Treaty of Paris
Involved Woodrow Wilson David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau
What brought an end to the First World War?
Armistice Paris in 1918
Rationing
Limited the purchase of consumer goods
Gavrilo Princip
Serbian member of the black hand that assassinated Franz Ferdinand
Unrestricted submarine warfear
Kept cargo ships from reaching Great Britain
Propaganda
The campaign used to influence public opinion
14 points
A plan for the postwar world
Zimmerman Note
Promised that Germany would help Mexico regain US territory
Treaty of Breast-Litovsk
Ended the war between Russia and Germany
Lusitania
A British luxury ship sunk by the Germans
War guilt clause
Britain and France wanted to punish Germany and to accept the war guilt clause
NEP
Created by Lenin to establish Russian economy and life
Stalins five-year plan
Goals to a rapid industrial growth, stronger national defense and the modernization of Soviet economy
The great purge
Eliminated anyone opposed to Stalin
Totalitarian
Was set up by Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Struggled for leadership control against Joseph Stalin after the death of Lenin
What are some ways stolen maintain take control of Soviet affairs
Had secret police, indoctrination,censorship collective farms, and removed all religions
What two groups did the Marxist split into?
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks
Jiang Jieshi
He promised democracy and political rights to all Chinese military leaders who start revolutions against communism
Sun Yixian
The leader of the Kuomintang that starts the revolutionary mood
Mel Zedong
Communist leader in China who recruited peasants over to communism
Salt March
Gandhi walked 240 in a protest march to evaporate saltwater
Reza Shah Pahlavi
Embark on a program of modernization after seizing power in Iran
What happened under the leader of turkey?
Mustangs Kemal embarked on a program of modernization after becoming the first president
What is the Amritsar massacre?
Occurred as a result of Indian demonstrators against British Laws
Three principals of the people ; who was it developed by?
Sun Yixian
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
Weimar Republic
Uncontrollable inflation and a lack of democratic tradition in Germany
New Deal
Ends the great depression in the United States
Who was the interpretation of dreams written by
Sigmund Freud
Dawes Plan
Help stabilize the German economy
What did President Franklin Roosevelt do to improve the depression in the United States
He created large public works programs to increase economy
What was the newest form of music in the 1920s
Jazz
What was the response to poor production in the United States
Congress increased tariffs on imports
What’s the key difference between fascism and communism
Communism had A classless society
Axis powers
Italy Japan and Germany
When did Germany invade the Rhineland
In 1963
What was the symbol of the Nazi party
The swastika
This is a term used to describe the attack on German Jews by Nazi mobs
Kristallnacht
The Munich Conference
A meeting between Germany France Italy and Britain hoping to avoid war
Why did Japan invaded Manchuria
For its raw materials and Ores
What is the Sudetenland?
A section of western Czechoslovakia taken by Hitler
What were the SS and the SA
Hitler special police and protection guards
List the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council
China, United States, Soviet Union, France, Britian
Kamikaze
Suicide pilots that targeted US Ships
Who led the victorious battle of El Alamein
General Bernard Montgomery
How did the allied forces deceive Hitler on D-Day
By having him think the attack would happen at Calais
Which general drew up the Japanese Constitution
Douglas MacArther
What group was tried at the Nuremberg Trials?
The nazis
What led to the Defeat of Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad?
The combination of the Russian Winter and Russian troops
The demilitarization was overseen by which country?
The United States Army
Where were Japanese Americans sent because of their ancestry?
They were sent to relocation camps
What marked the end of the German offensive?
The Battle of the Bulge
What was the largest attack and invasion in the history of the world?
The D-Day invasion
Who was the first leader of the People’s Republic of China?
Mao Zeadong
The Vietcong were made mostly of…
Pro-communist south Vietnamese
Why did Chinease either the Korean War?
When the fighting was nearing the Chinease border
Vietnamization
Allowed Americans to withdraw themselves fro the Vietnam war
Who was the south Vietnam leader?
Ngo Dinh Diem
Who was the north Vietnam leader?
Hi Chi Minh
What brought Great Britain and France into World War ll?
The invasion of Poland
Atlantic Charter
Declaration of the right to freedom of trade
What advantage did the British have over the Germans during the blitz on Britain ?
Britain had a radar and the Germans did not
How did the United States do in response to the Japanese aggression in Southeast Asia?
They cut oil supplies to Japan
What was the Maginot Line?
A heavily fortified defense like of the French located between France and Germany
Operation Sea Lion
Nazi’s plan to invade the United Kingdom after the fall of France
Operation Torch
British- American invasion of North Africa
Operation Barbarossa
German invasion of the Soviet Union
Enigma
The German code cracker machine
Genocide
The term referring to a large killing of a population of people
Who was the prime minister of Britain that vowed to never give up ?
Winston Churchill
Charles de Gaulle
A French general that set up government in Britain
Benito Mussolini
The fascist leader of Italy this worked a long side Hitler
