Final Flashcards

(52 cards)

1
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Supreme Allied Commander in Europe

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Dwight David Eisenhower

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2
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Conference considered a sellout by FDR

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Yalta Conference

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3
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D-Day

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June 6, 1944, Operation Overlord

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4
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Allied Powers

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America, FDR, England, Churchill, Russia, Stalin

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5
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Axis Powers

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Germany, Hitler, Italy, Benito Mussolini, Japan, Tojo

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Reasons Hitler invades Russia (blank, blank, blank)

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It’s the heart of communism, it is where lebensraum is to be found, it’s home to the largest Jewish population in the world

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7
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Desert Fox

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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

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8
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Hitler invades Poland, World War II begins!!!

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September 1, 1939

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9
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Western Democracies policy of accepting Hitler’s demands in order to avoid conflict

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Appeasement

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10
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To the failed putsch (blank, blank, blank)

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Trial publicity will make Hitler a national figure, he writes the Mein Kampf, Hitler takes power legally

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11
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What does Nazi mean?

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National Socialist German Workers Party

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12
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Forced Germany to accept responsibility for the war

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War guilt clause

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13
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Point 14: general association to guarantee protection for great and small nations alike

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League of Nations

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14
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Reasons for American involvement (blank, blank, blank)

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Economic, unrestricted submarine warfare, anti-German propaganda

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Causes of World War I (blank, blank, blank, blank)

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Nationalism, Imperialism, entangling alliances, militarism, Germany’s rise as a world power

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16
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A people derive their identity from their nations

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Nationalism

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17
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Define urbanization

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The growth of towns and cities due to the movement of people from rural to urban areas

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18
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Key industry that drove the development of the industrial revolution

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Textile industry

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19
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America’s reaction to the political stability in South America during the 1820s

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Monroe Doctrine

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20
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Provide a long-term police plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars

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Congress of Vienna

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21
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2nd century artifact that will unlock the lost ancient Egyptian culture

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Rosetta Stone

22
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Slogans and values that will represent the French Revolution

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Liberty, equality, fraternity

23
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A body of deputies from the three estates or orders

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Estates General

24
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The Second Continental Congress issues a declaration of independence on what day

25
List the four coercive acts (blank, blank, blank, blank)
Boston Port Act, Massachusetts Government Act, Impartial Administration of Justice Act, Quartering Act
26
Who were the executive authorities in the colonies, tasked with carrying out the king's instructions?
Royal Governors
27
What were three main reasons for immigration to the new world?
Economic, political, religious freedom
28
What were two central doctrines to the Enlightenment philosophers?
Individual liberty and religious tolerance
29
What city symbolizes Russia's opening to the west?
St. Petersburg
30
Explain the strategic importance of the creation of the Bank of England
Enabled the government to raise money at low interest for foreign wars
31
Define creoles
Born in America of Spanish parents
32
Define peninsular
Those born in Spain
33
Define mestizo
A person born to a Spanish father and native mother
34
John Locke argued that government's only purpose was to protect...
Life, Liberty, and property
35
The Cromwellian rump parliament then abolished the monarchy and the House of Lords and set up a Puritan Republic known as the
Commonwealth of England
36
Name given to those who fought for the king
Cavaliers
37
Name given to those who fought for the parliament
Roundheads
38
Define mercantilism
Governments must intervene to increase national wealth by whatever means possible
39
Define absolutism
System of government in which the ruler claims sole and uncontestable power
40
Name the king who is an ardent believer in the divine right of kings and who will create a system of absolute monarchial rule.
Louis XIV
41
In response to the execution of the Catholic monarch, Mary Queen of Scots, Charles the 5th of Spain...
Sent the famous Spanish Armada to crush England
42
What were French Calvinists called?
Huguenots
43
What was the name of one of the most influential royal houses in Europe? House of Spanish King Charles V
House of Habsburg
44
Pope Paul the Third created a new priest order to combat the Protestant and convert the heathens into Christianity. What was the name of this new priest order?
Jesuits
45
What were Martin Luther's two major issues with the church?
Salvation and indulgences
46
Define the Columbian Exchange
Movement of peoples, animals, plants, manufactured goods, precious metals, diseases between Europe, America, and Africa
47
The Renaissance originated in what Italian city?
Florence
48
Name the French peasant girl who turned the longstanding Anglo-French war into a religious war
Joan of Arc
49
Name the great plague that in 1352 resulted in the deaths of 1/3 to 3/5 of the population
Black Death
50
Who was the most famous of all the Venetian merchants?
Marco Polo
51
By 1215 the Mongols under their powerful leader had conquered most of China
Genghis Khan
52
2 important provisions within the Magna Carta (blank, blank)
Protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, new taxation only with baronial consent and limitations on scutage