Final exam study guide Flashcards by Jacob McMurdy

this person:
Goal; peace
End militarism
Self-termination
Letting states determine their government

Woodrow wilson

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Old empires became new counties
Germany
War guilt clause
Land loss
Reparations
Limited military

Treaty of Versailles

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designed to undermine the Central Powers’ will to continue, and to inspire the Allies to victory

14 points

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ship that was for people but had munition on it that was sunk by a German torpedo, resulting in great loss of life

Lusitania

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Place people discuss problems before having wars

League of Nations

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the last Tsar of Russia

Nicholas II

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Siberian-born muzhik, or peasant, who underwent a religious conversion as a teenager and proclaimed himself a healer with the ability to predict the future

Rasputin

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It granted control over former German and Ottoman territories to members of the League of Nations after World War I

Mandate System

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USSR, Bolsheviks
Industrialization
was a Soviet politician, political theorist and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union

Josef Stalin

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FDR’s __________
Socialist programs
Stronger executive (president)
Stronger national govt

new deal

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Forced industrialization - catch up to the west
Agricultural collectivization
Kulaks targeted
No supply/demand
Quotas (coal oil steel electric wheat)

Five-year plans

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the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of Soviet policies

Holodomor

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person
Austria/Germany
wwI
Anti-semitism
National socialist German workers party (nazis)
Beer ha;; putsch 1923
Mein Kampf

Adolf hitler

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person
presided over the invasion of China, the bombing of Pearl Harbor

Hirohito

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a system of Soviet labour camps and accompanying detention and transit camps and prisons.

gulags

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Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist.

Vladimir Lenin

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Inflated real estate
Spreads to other countries trade with the us
Worker shortage

great depression effects

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stock market crash, world trade, bank failures

great depression causes

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Fascism vs. communism

While communism is a system based around a theory of economic equality and advocates for a classless society, fascism is a nationalistic, top-down system with rigid class roles that is ruled by an all-powerful dictator.

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founder of Italian Fascism, march on rome

Benito Mussolini

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The night of broken glass

Kristallnacht

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Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

Munich Accord

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treaty thing: Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.

Munich Accord

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Made by Hitler and means - Lightning war
Hit hard and fast as well as a takeover
Sept 3-Britain & France declare war
Sept 17 - USSR invades Poland

Blitzkrieg

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a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe

NATO

8 months 43k civilians killed Incendiary bombs

the blitz

Japan Germany Italy were the

axis

a member of a Japanese air attack corps in World War II assigned to make a suicidal crash on a target (

Kamikaze

an almost landlocked inlet of the Pacific on the S coast of the island of Oahu, Hawaii: site of a US naval base attacked by the Japanese in 1941, resulting in the US entry into World War II.

Pearl Harbor

a day set for launching an operation. specifically : June 6, 1944, on which Allied forces began the invasion of France in World War II

D-Day

The ----- were a decade of fear in Japan, characterized by the resurgence of right-wing patriotism, the weakening of democratic forces,

1930s japan

Children relocated to places that were “safer” like Narnia or Paddington Bear movies Sleeping in subway tunnels

Operation Pied Piper

the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection.

Truman Doctrine

proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.

Marshall Plan

Ussr nuclear in 1949 Mutually assured destruction A cold war with hot spots and proxy (substitute) wars

Brinkmanship

Heavy artillery, machine guns, tanks, motorized transport vehicles, high explosives, chemical weapons, airplanes, field radios

technologies of WWI

Attacks three most important areas of the soviet union. Leningrad, Moscow, Rostov

Operation Barbarossa

purpose was to reinforce communist dominance in Eastern Europe.

Warsaw Pact

an unprecedented, top-secret World War II government program in which the United States rushed to develop and deploy the world's first atomic weapons before Nazi Germany.

Manhattan Project

an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their respective sectors of the city of Berlin

Berlin Blockade

a goodwill mission to drop candy to German children during the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949

Operation Little Vittles

a U.S. air raid during World War II that targeted major cities in Japan.

Doolittle Raid

The impact of the _____ was that it divided Germany and Berlin into four allied zones. These later became West and East German States. It also allowed to Poland fall under Soviet communist power

Yalta Conference

a treaty between two or more states/countries that includes a promise by the signatories not to engage in military action against each other

Nonaggression Pact

soldier and statesman who was prime minister of Japan (1941–44) during most of the Pacific theatre portion of World War II and who was subsequently tried and executed for war crimes.

gen Tojo

combing air, land, and sea forces to navigate the challenging geography and distances

Island Hopping

Easter Parade - April 15-16. 1949 Pilots drop as much coal as they can in a day and it drops Russian morale.

Operation Vittles

the job is to make sure people don't sneak people across the wall

stasi

a Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC),

Mao Zedong

there is only one sovereign state under the name ____, with the PRC serving as the sole legitimate government of that ____

One-China Policy

Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party

Xi Jinping

Turkic nomads living north of the Gobi Desert, ruled over a powerful empire between 744 and 840. Its capital was Karabalghasun on the upper Orhon River in Mongolia

Uighurs

AOS 2ND FIVE-YEAR PLAN INDUSTRY AND AGRICULTURE 1958-63 COLLECTIVIZATION Backyard steel furnaces Grain and cotton production

Great Leap Forward

Cult of Mao - the little red book End to elitism Red guards

Cultural Revolution

Outside China, the ______ ________ is best known for the 1989 protests and massacre that ended with a military crackdown

Tiananmen Square

was a Korean politician and the founder of North Korea

Kim Il Sung

North Korean politician who has been the Supreme Leader of North Korea

Kim Jong-Un

a convenient borderline for their divided military occupation of the Korean peninsula

38th Parallel

led a long and ultimately successful campaign to make Vietnam independent.

Ho Chi Minh

suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos

Domino Theory

1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion

Bay of Pigs

a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Missile Crisis

a formal system to coordinate repression among the countries of the Southern Cone that operated from the mid-1970s until the early eighties

Operation Condor

Ussr premier 68-64 De Stalinization reforms Tried to compete with us We will bury you

Nikita Khrushchev

ost soviet leader Glasnost openness Perestroika = economic restructuring “The old system collapsed before the new one had time to begin working”

Mikhail Gorbachev

In 1990, he was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

.Boris Yeltsin

a former Russian intelligence officer and a politician who has served as president of Russia from 1999 to 2008

Vladimir Putin

this Sunni Iraqi militant organization that first gained international attention in late 2004. The group is vehemently anti-American and seeks to overthrow the Iraqi government, which it views as an American and Iranian puppet.

Mujahideen

process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country.

Decolonization

the most religious site in the world for the Jewish people

Western Wall

Jewish homeland Ca 1900 Return to Israel 1948 Israel

Zionism

Tried to do but failed Israel for Jews Palestine for Muslims Separate countries Complete sovereignty for both problems/questions Borders Jerusalem Refuges Security for Israel

Two-state Solution

An Islamic terrorist and the head of the Al Qaeda network of terrorists

Osama bin Laden

a radical Sunni Muslim organization dedicated to the elimination of a Western presence in Arab countries and militantly opposed to Western foreign policy:

al-Qaeda

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