Final Flashcards

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The war guilt clause of the Treaty of Versailles forced what country to accept the blame for causing World War I?

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Germany

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What was Pres. Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points?

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A plan for postwar peace

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Why did the us congress refuse to join the League of Nations?

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Because many feared to us would be drawn too deeply into European affairs and possibly wars

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How did the results of ww1 change the map of Europe?

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Defeated empires suffered significant territorial losses

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What did the treaty of Versailles worldwide depression and charismatic leaders all contribute to?

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The rise of totalitarian governments

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What effect did ww1 have on the literature of the 1920s as exemplified by the lost generation?

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Writers expressed disillusionment about reason and progress

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What type of project would have been undertaken by a post ww1 European artist?

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Using geometric shapes to form abstract images

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Statins police state was characterized by

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Policies that resulted I the death of millions

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Why did they tap into peoples telephones and read their mail?

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To make people afraid to protest

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How were the totalitarian regimes of Germany Italy and the soviet untion similar ?

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They controlled most aspects of citizens lives

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Of the 3 dictatorships only the Soviet Union was

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Communist

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The Stalin Hitler pact allowed Germany to

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Not fear attack from the east

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Japanese drives for empire during the 1930s were motivated by the desire to

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demonstrate their perceived national superiority

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The rape of Nanking during Japan’s invasion of china set the precedent that the axis drive for empire would result in

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Intentional targeting of civilian populations

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What was mussolinis goal in his drive for building an empire!

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Restore the greatness of ancient rome

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What conditions were imposed on Germany by the treaty of Versailles?

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Accept responsibility for the war
Required to make reparations
Forced to limit the size of it’s military

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British and French appeased hitler at the Munich conference at the expense of what country?

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Czechoslovakia

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What battle changed the tide of the war in the pacific (WWII)

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Midway

18
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What event does the cartoon represent

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The German invasion of Russia

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What prime minister courageously led Britain through the Battle of Britain and the remainder of WWII?

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Winston Churchill

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What groups did hitler target in his pursuit of racial purity

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Jews
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Not Aryan’s!!

21
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What was the goal of hitlers final solution

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Genocide of people who NAZIS considered inferior

22
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The large number of civilian casualties during WWII can be attributed to the

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Aerial bombardment of cities

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Why was the Soviet Union able to take control in Eastern Europe following WWII

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Soviet troops were already occupying parts of Eastern Europe during the war

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After WWII western Europe became united in it’s opposition to

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The spread of communism

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What was the name of the meeting which the allied leaders devised a post WWII peace plan for Europe

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The yalta conference

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After WWII the Soviet Union established satellite nations along it’s borders to

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Expand it’s power and control over Eastern Europe

27
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Newly developing anions during the Cold War in order to gain

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Support for communism

28
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Domino theory reflected which cold was policy

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Containment

29
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Why did the US enter the Vietnam war

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To stop spread of communism into south east Asia

30
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What was the main goal of the Marshall plan

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To aid European recovery after WWII

31
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What was the result of Korean War?

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Communism was contained in Korea at the 38th parallel

32
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Great Leap Forward reflected China’s desire to

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Increase agriculture through collectivization

Improve industrial production

33
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What union movement of the 1980s became the main force of opposition to communist rule

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Poland

34
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United Nations formed the state of Israel to provide a

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Home for Jewish ppl after WWII

35
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Us support for Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur wAr was ale adding cause of the

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Arab oil embargo against the US

36
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What was the central reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union

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The failure of soviet economic political and social policies

37
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What is the component of the United Nations that provides a central forum for all member nations?

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General assembly

38
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What was the USSR response to the military alliance of the west

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Warsaw Pact

39
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Wat effects have globalization had on world economy

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Nations have become more dependent on eachother