Last Push Flashcards
(22 cards)
Tsar Nichols II
Stepped down because of White Revolution, created Duma
Battle of Somme
Deadliest battle in Britain
Petain
General in Battle of Verdun, controlled French mutinies
Kerensky
Led Duma in its rise to Provisional Government
Trotsky
Red Army leader, allied with Lenin
John Pershing
Led Allied counter-attack, turning the tide of WW1
Who did the Great Purges?
Stalin
Black Shirt March
Caused Fascist overthrow of Italy
Nuremberg Laws
Stripped Jews of citizenship and rights
Battle of Stalingrad
Deadliest battle in the history of the world
Operation Overlord
Led by Eisenhower, liberation of France
Munich Conferenve
Gave Sudetenland to Germany
Soviet bloc
Stalin’s satellite regions
Marshall Plan
US plan to give financial aid to all of Europe to contain Communism
Kennan
Advocate of the containment policy
John Foster Dulles
Mutually assured destruction (MAD)
11 of the republics of Soviet Union formed this
Commonwealth of Independent States
Boris Yeltsin
Rescued Gornachev from coup
Warsaw Pact
Communist alliance of Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
Gorbachev
Instituted perestroika, private property, free speech
Perestroika
Economic restructuring
Glasnost
Free speech, political openness