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Final Review 2nd Semester Flashcards

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Monroe Doctrine

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President Monroe announced “The American continents aren’t to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.”

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Roosevelt Corollary

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European nations shouldn’t intervene in countries to the south of the US

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Militarism

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Building up glorification of the military

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Nationalism

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Belief that one’s greatest loyalty should be to one’s country

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Imperialism

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Domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country

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Ultimatum

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Do this or else

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Flapper

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Rebellious girl of the 20s who goes against the norms

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5 Years Plans

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Stalin’s idea to increase industry and agriculture

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Total war

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all resources go to the war effort

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Propaganda

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One-sided information

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Armistice

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Cease-fire

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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

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Brought peace between Russia and Germany

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Bolsheviks

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Communists

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Reparations

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Money for war damages

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Boycott

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Refuse to buy

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Fascism

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One party; dictatorship; Limited rights; Extreme nationalism

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Collectivization

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Large state-controlled farms

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Gulag

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Soviet prison camps

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United Nations

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International organization created after World War II to maintain peace

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VE day

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Victory in Europe day; May 7, 1945; Gen. Eisenhower accepts unconditional surrender

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Chancellor

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Prime Minister of Germany

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Rosie the Riveter

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Symbol for working women

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Good neighbor policy

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FDR would interfere less with Latin American issues

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Surrealism

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Artistic attempt to portray workings of the unconscious mind

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Nicholas II
Last czar of Russia
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U Boat
Name for submarines Germans made
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Atheism
Doesn't believe in God
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Duma
Russian assembly
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Lenin
First Communist leader Of Soviet Union
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Bloody Sunday
Peaceful march through streets of St. Petersburg To the czar's winter palace
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Provisional Government
Temporary government in Russia
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Rasputin
Priest believed to have saved Alexis
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Albert Einstein
German scientist
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Sigmund Freud
Father of psychology
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Charles Lindbergh
First to fly solo nonstop from New York to Paris
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Weimer republic
Weak Government of Germany post-World War II
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Buying on margin
Buying stocks for only 20% of the value
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Great depression
Severe economic trouble after stock market crash
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Gandhi
Used nonviolence to get British out of India
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Appeasement
Giving into commands to keep peace
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Assembly line
Workers add parts to a product that moves along
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Model T
Ford's first car
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Business cycle
Expansion, Peak, contraction, trough, repeat
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Benito Mussolini
Fascist leader of Italy
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Adolf Hitler
Fascist leader of Germany
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Mein Kampf
Book written by Hitler
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Kristallnacht
Night of the broken glass
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Munich conference
Appease Hitler with Northern Czechoslovakia
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Nonaggression pact
Germany and Soviet Union agreed not to attack each other
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Blitzkrieg
Lightning war; planes, tanks, infantry
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Maginot line
French defense system built after world War II
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Battle of Midway
Stops Japanese drive to Hawaii
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Battle of the Bulge
Germany's last offensive
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D day
Allies invaded France at Normandy "operation overload"
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Kamikaze
Japanese suicide planes
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Hiroshima/Nagasaki
Japanese cities A-bomb by the US in World War II
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Manhattan Project
Codename for development of the atomic bomb
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Pearl Harbor
I date which will live in infamy
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Stalin
Dictator of Soviet Union
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Truman
President after FDR dies; atomic bombs
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FDR
Pres. of the US during World War II
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Churchhill
England's Prime Minister during World War II
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Third Reich
Name of Hitler's Empire
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Island hopping
The allies strategy to win back territory
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Cold War
Climate of icy tension that existed between the US and the Soviet Union after World War II
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NATO
North Atlantic Treaty organization; anti-Soviet military alliance
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Warsaw Pact
Communist military alliance between Soviet Union and s
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Iron Curtain
Churchill said that this fell across eastern Europe
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Berlin airlift
United States flies in supplies for nearly one year in Germany
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Khrushchev
De-Stalinization
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Brezhnev
Re-Stalinization
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Truman doctrine
US will help any country against communism
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Marshall plan
Money to aid Europe after World War II
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Berlin wall
Built in 1961 to keep people from leaving East Germany
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Mao Tse-Tung
Leader of Chinese communists
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Chang Kai-shek
Pres. of nationalistic Republic of China ends up in Taiwan
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Korean War
North Korea attacks out; ends in the 38th parallel
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Vietnam War
North attacks South first and only lost for US
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Escalation
Sending more Men to Vietnam LBJ
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Gulf of Tonkin resolution
Congress gave LBJ the authority to do what's necessary in Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
Communist leader of Vietnam
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Domino theory
Believe that the fall of one S. East Asian country to communism would need to the fall of its neighbors
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Pol Pot
Communist leader of Cambodia
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OPEC
Organization of petroleum exporting countries
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Cuban missile Crisis
13 days standoff between US and Soviet Union over missiles in Cuba
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Elastic good
Substitutes available
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Inelastic good
Necessity insulin
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Petrodollars
Money for oil
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Alan Shepard
First American in space
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Saigon
Capital of South Vietnam
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Fidel Castro
Communist leader of Cuba
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Decolonization
Empires breaking up, Independence for colonies
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Geneva Accords
Vietnam split at 17th parallel and there'll be a national election to unite country
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Brezhnev doctrine
Soviets may intervene in satellites at any time
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Counterculture
Go against Norm, hippies
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Baby boom
Population explosion after World War II
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Afrikaners
Dutch descendents in south Africa
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Apartheid
Segregation in South Africa
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Abdicate
To step down from power
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Shah of Iran
Dictator of Iran and the US supports
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Ayatollah Khomeini
Overthrew the shah and leader during the Iran hostage crisis
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Solidarity
Polish labor union
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Desert Storm
US and allies versus Iraq during the 90s
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Gorbachev
Soviet leader after Andropov; says glasnost, perestroika, and democraticization
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Glasnost
Openness
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Perestroika
Economic reforms
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Democraticization
Free elections
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Boris Yeltsin
First elected leader of Russia
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Tiananmen Square
Student protests for individual rights that is broken up by the military
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500 day plan
Gorbachev's program to overcome the economic crisis in the Soviet Union by transitioning into market economy
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Hardliners
Communist conservatives who oppose change
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Operation restore hope
US military involvement in Somalia trying to feed people
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Bantustans
Black homelands in South Africa

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