world wars Flashcards
0
Q
magyarization
A
austria hungary
dominance in hungary
magyar language and culture
1
Q
duma
A
parliament
russia
constitutional monarchy
2
Q
dual alliance
A
prussia and austria
bismarck
3
Q
reinsurance treaty
A
prussia y russia
placate russia
5
Q
kaiser william II
A
prussia
bye bye bismarck
didnt renew reassurance treaty
6
Q
entente cordiale
A
gb and france
wwi
7
Q
Entente powers
A
Britain France Russia
8
Q
Franz Ferdinand
A
archduke of austia
assassinated by bosnian serb
basically catalyst for wwi
9
Q
black hand
A
wwi assassinated franz gavrilo pricip serbian terrorists with connections to gov austria → ultimatum → war !!!
10
Q
wwi start
A
1914
11
Q
wwi alliances
A
russia,serbs,france,gb
germany,austria,turkey
12
Q
why did wwi last so long??
A
new technology !! mostly defensive trenches !! machine guns, barbed wire, planes !! poison gas c;
13
Q
first battle of marne
A
french victory against germans
in france
14
Q
central powers
A
germany,austria-hungary,turkey
wwi
15
Q
entente powers
A
wwi
russia,serbia,france,gb,usa
16
Q
zimmermann telegram
A
germany to mexico
join us mexico !! we have chalupas!! and also us territory but whatevs
intercepted by gb and decoded
angry US ! grrrr
17
Q
lusitania
A
german submarines sank ship in british waters
many americans on board
US ENTERS WARRRRR
18
Q
Fourteen Points
A
woodrow willson wwi idealistic document free trade, end to secret deals reduce tention
19
Q
wwi end
A
1918
20
Q
treaty of versailles
A
wwi meanie germany → not really uvu league of nations punish !! punish !! punish !! pay da cash monayy alsace-lorraine → france french troop in west bank of rhine and right bank demilatarized → 100,000 soldiers, no weapons, no airforce
21
Q
march revolutions
A
russia petrograd collapsed → mo food omjeethus troops called → sided with strikers tzar abdicated provisional gov → duma
22
Q
bolsheviks
A
followers of lenin workers would rise to power commies extremists turned into 'communits'
23
Q
mensheviks
A
marx
followed steps of marx
commies
24
Q
trotsky
A
military
bolsheviks
25
lucarno agreement
germany and france
| accept borders
26
white forces
```
russia
anti-commie
monarchists
rebublicans
us and gb support
```
27
red terror
lenin and trotsky
| against opponents
28
New Economic policy [nep]
russia
basically complete gov control over economy and industry , but allowed some private industry
lenin
29
war communism
total gov control over economy
| a trotsky le gusta
30
left opposition
spread communism to industrialized west
31
right opposition
continue nep
| build comm within ussr
32
stalin
took power by forcing confessions out of opponents
hated 'old bolsheviks'
executed millions
assassinated trotsky
left opposition
five year plan
collective farming → kill anyone who refused
33
kulaks
wealthy peasants
34
Great depression?
wwi devastated economy
gb → econ stagnation
erryone dependent on us bank lones
stock market crash destroyed everyone
35
vienna bank collapse
biggest bank
citizens lost trust → withdrew savings → no $ for other depositors → no loans → store $ → ↓industrial goods → ↓available jobs → no $ to spend → bye bye economy
36
fascism
destroy indivitual → common good
state not people
extreme nationalism
hate women,hate modern art, hate jews
37
corporatism
association of workers/owners that would solve problems themselves
mussolini
38
why fascist italy??
worker revolts → Bolsheviks??
| owners threatened → turn against democracy
39
black shirts
mussolini
fascists
rightist organization
support of factory/landowners → $
40
lateran pact
mussolini
with cath church
papacy officially recognized italy as country
41
Wiemar republic
hindenburg
germany
inflation
weak
42
beer hall putsch
hitler
arrested
attention for him
mein kampf → outlined his views
43
burning of reichstag
nazis blamed commies
hitler → emergency powers
revoke human rights
total control
44
enabling act
official complete authority
cause why not?
writing it on paper is rad
45
Night of long knives
murdered his own allies
sa→ nazi political army
gained german army loyalty
46
spanish civil war [yes this is a thing]
```
parliamentary democracy
failed to divide land to peasants
francisco franco
nationalists → german italian support
unstable gov
guernica bombed by italty germany → civilians
Pablo picasso !!!!
france and gb refused to help republicans
```
47
schlieffen plan
wwi
| knock out france [russian ally] first
48
road to wwii
treaty of versailles
took austria
took Czechoslovakia
took poland
49
appeasment
```
wwii
gb to germany
recognized ethiopia as italy
neutral when g annexed austria
gave czechs to germany
german ignored and still killed everyone
chamberlain
```
50
munich agreement
```
wwii
gb,germany,italy,france
decide czech future
didnt invite czechs
gave part to hitler
hitler would leave rest alone
he didnt of course
```
51
nonagression pact
hitler and stalin buddies
gb and france meanies
hitler ignored of course
soviets regained poland finland balkans
52
wwii start
1939
| g attack on poland
53
wwii finish
1945
54
phony war
british and french on defensive
nothing really happened for a year
ended when g attacked norway and denmark
55
maquis
french resistance wwii
| fought against germans and vichy [petain]
56
winston churchill
gb pm
wwii
continue the war to the end
57
battle of britain
```
wwii
german planes
radarrrrr !! icu
gb cracked german code
stopped attacking mitlitary → attacked cities
gb army recover
hitler retreated
```
58
luftwaffe
german air force
59
royal air force
raf
| gb planes
60
nuremburg laws
jews lost citizenship
| wear yellow star
61
kristallnacht
night of broken glass
| jewish stores and homes destroyed
62
operation barbarossa
german attack on ussr
| soviets completely unprepared
63
axis powers
germany japan italy(?)
| wwii
64
allies
wwii
| gb us ussr
65
d-day invasion
1944
| Normandy
66
nuremburg trial
crimes against humanity
no one to persecute
all killed themselves
67
zero hour
darkest point in german history
after wwii
no economy
