Final Review

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

The period of intense political and military rivalry between the United States and Russia that existed between 1945-1991.

Question 2

Yalta Conference

Answer 2

Meeting of The Allies to determine the future of post war Europe following the defeat of Germany.

Question 3

The President at the time of the Cold War

Answer 3

Truman

Question 4

Satellite Nation

Answer 4

A nation whose policies and governments were controlled by Russia. (These included Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Hungary, and East Germany.)

Question 5

Iron Curtain

Answer 5

The Russians cutting the nations of Eastern Europe off from all contact/information with the West.

Question 6

The Marshall Plan

Answer 6

USA’s aid of over $13 billion in 4 years to help rebuild Europe’s economies and restore faith in capitalism.

Question 7

Containment

Answer 7

The policy that the US would aid any country threatened by communist takeover.

Question 8

NATO

Answer 8

A military alliance of the Western powers to resist the spread of communism.

Question 9

Berlin Airlift

Answer 9

US flying vital fuel and food into West Berlin over a communist blockade.

Question 10

Arms Race

Answer 10

Competition between the United States and Soviet Union to create more powerful armed forces and weapons, especially nuclear bombs.

Question 11

Israel

Answer 11

The Jewish state.

Question 12

Zionism

Answer 12

Desire for a Jewish homeland.

Question 13

Balfour Declaration

Answer 13

A private letter (written by an English Foreign Secretary) that supported the establishment of a Jewish state, so long as the rights of non-Jewish residents were protected.

Question 14

UN Partition Plan

Answer 14

A proposal of boundaries for Jewish and Palestinians states.

Question 15

Jerusalem

Answer 15

A holy city to Jews, Christians and Moslems

Question 16

Define nationalism (there are two definitions)

Answer 16

Feeling of loyalty and pride in country as a whole; desire for an independent state

Question 17

Who was the leader of the unification of Germany?

Answer 17

Bismark

Question 18

What was Bismark’s policy for unification?

Answer 18

“Blood and iron”

Question 19

What was the most important war Bismarck fought?

Answer 19

The Franco-Prussian war

Question 20

What was included in the Treaty of Frankfort?

Answer 20

Alsace and Lorraine go back to France, and Germany must pay an indemnity.

Question 21

What three countries were part of the Triple Entente?

Answer 21

France, Russia (causing a two front war) and England

Question 22

What three countries were part of the Triple Alliance?

Answer 22

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy.

Question 23

Define militarism

Answer 23

The development of a country around a military, and the desire to use it.

Question 24

What was the Von Schlieffen Plan?

Answer 24

A way of dealing with a two-front war, it required that France be defeated in 6 weeks, and then Germany can fight Russia.

Question 25

Who was the Austrian Archduke who was assassinated?

Answer 25

Franz Ferdinand

Question 26

Define ultimatum

Answer 26

A set of demands that cannot be negotiated and must be agreed to within a certain time.

Question 27

Define mobilization

Answer 27

The movement/ equipment of troops

Question 28

What were the five weapons first used in WWI?

Answer 28

Tanks, planes, submarines, machine guns, and poison gases.

Question 29

Pogrom

Answer 29

Condoned attack by mobs on the Jews

Question 30

First communist leader of Russia

Answer 30

Lenin

Question 31

Who were three significant leaders of china?

Answer 31

Chaing Kai-Shek, Mao Zedong, and Deng Xiaping

Question 32

Who was Chaing Kai-Shek?

Answer 32

Leader of nationalist china who loses civil war and flees to Taiwan

Question 33

Who was Mao Zedong?

Answer 33

The man who turned China communism

Question 34

Who was Deng Xiaping?

Answer 34

The man who takes elements of capitalism into communism, meaning private ownership

Question 35

What country did Russia try to invade, but failed?

Answer 35

Afghanistan

Question 36

Who was the leader of the party that fought the Russians in Afghanistan?

Answer 36

Osama bin Laden

Question 37

Define embargo

Answer 37

An official ban on trade or other commercial activity with a particular country.

Question 38

Define Middle Kingdom

Answer 38

The Chinese thought that they were the best of the civilizations, and they thought they were as developed as man could be

Question 39

Define purge

Answer 39

A mass killing of members of one own's party

Question 40

Define conscription

Answer 40

A decree that Germany would no longer observe the restrictions placed on it by the Treaty of Versailles

Question 41

Define appeasement

Answer 41

Giving into the demands of an aggressive power, in order to avoid war

Question 42

Define Opium War

Answer 42

Two wars between China and Britain resulting from the Chinese refusal to allow the importation of opium.

Question 43

Define domino theory

Answer 43

The belief that if one nation fell to communism, other neighboring countries would

Question 44

Who was the leader of communist Cuba?

Answer 44

Fidel Castro

Question 45

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

Answer 45

The last communist leader of Russia, and the man who surrendered to Afghanistan