World War II Era

Question 1

Joseph Stalin

Answer 1

became leader of Russian communist party when Lenin died

Question 2

Five Year Plans

Answer 2

imposed by Josesph Stalin
called for successful agricultural production by ruthlessly taking over private farms and combing them into state-owned enterprises, processes known as collectivization
also advocated for the construction of nationalized factories

Question 3

Totalitarianism

Answer 3

a system of government that is centralized and dictatorial and requires complete subservience to the state.

Question 4

Fascism

Answer 4

attacked weakness of democracy, corruption of capitalism; promised vigorous foreign and military programs; undertook state control of economy to reduce social friction.

Question 5

Great Purge

Answer 5

widespread arrests and executions of over a million people by Josef Stalin
Stalin was attempting to eliminate all opposition to his rule of the Soviet Union.

Question 6

Great Depression

Answer 6

International economic crisis following the First World War; began with collapse of American stock market

causes included collapse of agricultural prices in houses in the United States and western Europe, massive unemployment;

Question 7

National Fascist party

Answer 7

Italy was the first state to have a fascist government, the founder and leader was Benito Mussolini

Question 8

Weimar Republic

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In Germany a socialist or communist system was rejected in favor of a conservative democratic republic

Reichstag = Weimar Republic’s elected bod

Question 9

The National Socialist Party (Nazis)

Answer 9

Adolf Hitler rose to power as head of the Nazi party, Hitler’s Nazism inspired extreme nationalism and dreams of renewed greatness

Question 10

Hitler

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was convinced that the Aryan race was the most highly evolved race and inferior races like Slavs and Jews corrupted the German race

Question 11

Hitler actions

Answer 11

hitler became rebuilding the German military which was a violation of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany then withdrew from the League of Nations
took back the Rhineland which was taken away after WWI
formed alliance with Japan
he took over Austria and moved to reclaim the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Question 12

Munich Conference

Answer 12

Hitler was given the Sudetenland without permission from Czechoslovakia

This was in return for his to stop his expansionist activities, known as appeasement
Hitler did stop his expansion for a year until he invaded the remaining territories in Czechoslovakia

Question 13

Non- Aggression Pact

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Britain and France signed pact with Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Poland that said if anyone of the were attack they would go into war

Question 14

Nazi-Soviet Pact

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Stalin and Hitler agreed that Germany would not invaded the Soviet Union if they stayed out of Germany’s military affairs

Question 15

Start of WWII

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German forces marched into Poland and Britain declared war on Germany

Question 16

Rape of Nanjing

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Japanese invaded China

in the city of Nanjing nearly 250,000 Chinese were slaughtered by Japanese forces

Question 17

Battle of Britain

Answer 17

Winston Churchill refused to cut a deal with Germany so Hitler launched a massive air bombing campaign

Question 18

Radar

Answer 18

British succeed in keeping the Germans out with a newly devised tool

Question 19

American’s involvement in WWII

Answer 19

Japan continued its expansion in China and invaded Vietnam, the U.S viewed this as hostile but they still didn’t want to get involved in the war so they froze Japanese assets and imposed sanctions instead
Japan planned to declare war on the U.Sr if they didn’t lift sanctions against Japan they didn’t so the Japanese bombed a U.S naval station in Hawaii at Pearl Harbor
The United States declared war against Japan and Germany declared war against the United States

Question 20

Manhattan Project

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U.S secretly worked on development of an atomic bomb

Question 21

End of WWII

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By 1945 the Allied forces closed in on Hitler’s troops, ending WWII for Europeans and hitle killed himself

Question 22

Wurrendering of Japan WWII

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American forces defeated Japan but they refused to Surrender
President Truman ordered the bombing of the Atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, he believed this would end WWII for good
The Japanese vowed to fight on, President Truman authorized the dropping of a second bomb on Nagasaki, Japan finally surrender and WWII was finally over

Question 23

Holocaust

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known as the final solution in Germany

When the news spread after the was, public sympathy for the creation of Israel as a homeland for Jew rose

Question 24

Marshall Plan

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the U.S instituted this plan to help in rebuilding in Europe

Question 25

United Nations

Answer 25

replaced League of Nations

the allies believed a network of international organizations could reduce the probability of another Great War