Unit V Test

Question 1

Nationalism

Answer 1

Willing to do anything for your country

Question 2

Alliances

Answer 2

Agreements between countries to assist during wars.

Question 3

Militarism

Answer 3

Over-producing military weapons to prepare for war, even if unnecessary.

Question 4

Imperialism

Answer 4

Expanding a countries power using force.

Question 5

Trench Warfare

Answer 5

Warfare in trenches.

Question 6

Zimmerman Note

Answer 6

Germany sent a note to Mexico, proposing an alliance, Mexico declines. (U.S. found out because the telegram made a stop in England, where officials decoded it.

Question 7

Vladimir Lenin

Answer 7

-Signed peace treaty with Central Powers
-Russian politician
-founded Bolsheviks
-lead Soviet Union to drop out of WWII

Question 8

Bolshevik (Communists)

Answer 8

-took over Russia’s government
-Russia left the war because of this.

Question 9

Impact of the Russian Revolution for Germany

Answer 9

It helped Germany because the Russian’s didn’t occupy German troops on the Eastern front anymore.

Question 10

Schlieffen Plan

Answer 10

Germany would attack France for 6 weeks because it would take that long for Russia to mobilize their army.

Question 11

Central Powers/Allied Alliances in WWI

Answer 11

Central Powers- Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
Allied Powers- France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, U.S

Question 12

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 12

Germany’s consequences after WWI:
-pay reparations to the Allied Powers
-extremely limited military
-lose territory
-give up all colonies in Africa.

Question 13

Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Answer 13

-leader of Prussia
-execution sparked WWI

Question 14

Ataturk

Answer 14

-leader of Turkey
-embraced Industrial Revolution

Question 15

Mohandas Gandhi and Salt Marches

Answer 15

-salt march to protest British rule in India

Question 16

The Mexican Constitution of 1917

Answer 16

-broke up large estates
-restricted foreigners from owning lands
-promoted nationalization of natural resources

Question 17

Appeasements Failure vs. Hitler

Answer 17

-too scared to start WWII so the UN appeased everything Hitler wanted in an attempt to avoid it.

Question 18

Joseph Stalin’s use of Purges + the Five Year Plan

Answer 18

Stalins five year plan sets what will be produced (industrialization)
Stalins purges- killing of those who opposed him

Question 19

Hitler’s Rise to Power

Answer 19

-treaty of versailles
-appeasement
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Question 20

Mussolini + Fascism

Answer 20

-Mussolini puts himself in control
-people aren’t allowed to disagree

Question 21

Axis Power + Pre-WWII Test Sites

Answer 21

Japan invades China, atrocities occur (torture), Italy invades Ethiopia (same thing). (Axis powers- Italy, Japan, Germany

Question 22

Ultra-Nationalism in Japan

Answer 22

“kill or be killed” philosophy

Question 23

Palestine after WWI

Answer 23

controlled by British

Question 24

The League of Nations response to Japan’s invasion of China

Answer 24

-LON told the Japanese that this was wrong, however they did not do anything to stop it.

Question 25

Total War during WWII

Answer 25

-bombing of cities and killing of civilians -extreme propaganda use.

Question 26

The Great Depression's Impact on Future World Leaders

Answer 26

-led to fdr being elected -people disliked hoover

Question 27

Blitzkreig vs. WWI tactics

Question 28

Axis/Allied Powers during WWII

Answer 28

The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) were opposed by the Allied Powers (led by Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union).France and China were a little later) Five other nations joined the Axis during World War II: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia. The decline and fall of the Axis alliance began in 1943.

Question 29

Mein Kampf

Answer 29

Hitlers book that describes his ideaologies, "my struggle", written in prison

Question 30

How Did WWII Officially Start

Answer 30

Zimmerman note and sunk Lusitania

Question 31

The escalation of the Holocaust (Kristallnacht to the Final Solution)

Answer 31

Hitler attacks Jewish businesses and synagogues and blames them for it. It escalates to them not being able to own businesses. being sent to ghettos, and then concentration camps. This was all part of Hitler's "final solution" to eliminate all Jews from Europe.

Question 32

Pearl Harbor

Answer 32

People saw the radar but didn't think it was real, so it was ignored. Many Americans died. Japanese citizens were sent to internment camps for the rest of the war.

Question 33

Island Hopping

Answer 33

The U.S. military plan to take island after island from Japan on its way to Japan.

Question 34

Kamikaze

Answer 34

Single aircraft planes loaded with TNT that attempts to smash into U.S. ships headed for Japan. (kill or be killed)

Question 35

Reasons for the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 35

They wanted to end the war the quickest even though it would kill many.

Question 36

United Nations

Answer 36

A peacekeeping organization of countries that was established after the war in the Pacific.