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W History 2 - 20th C
World History II - 20th Century
| Term/Question | Definition/Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the factors that produced World War I? | Alliances that divided Europe into competing camps, Nationalistic feelings, Diplomatic failures, Imperialism, Competition over colonies, and Militarism |
| The event that began WW I was | Assassination of Austria's Archduke Ferdinand |
| World War I began in the year ____, but the US did not enter the war until ____. | 1914, 1917 |
| How did communism rise in Russia? | Rise of communism, Bolshevik Revolution and civil war, Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy, and Lenin's successor - Joseph Stalin |
| Where was WW II fought? | Europe, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands. |
| 5 Causes of WWII- Aggression by totalitarian powers: | 1) Nationalism, 2) Failure of the Treaty of Versailles, 3) Weakness of the League of Nations, 4) Appeasement, 5) Tendencies towards isolationism and pacifism in Europe and the United States |
| WW II Leaders; who was the US President? | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| WW II Leaders: Who was the US President after the death of FDR? | Harry Truman |
| WW II - After Hitler annexed Austria and Czecholslavkia to Germany, Britain and France adopted a policy of appeasement. What does that mean? | Britain and France did not actively oppose the annexations. They stayed quiet, hoping Hitler would not expand futher. |
| What happened after Germany invaded Poland in 1939? | France and Britain declared war on Germany |
| What did the Soviet Union agree in the Nazi-Soviet Pact signed in 1939? | They agreed not to attack Germany if Hitler invaded Poland (which he did a month later.) |
| Year? German invasion of Poland | 1939 |
| Year? Fall of France | 1940 |
| Year? Battle of Britain | 1940 |
| Year? German invasion of the Soviet Union | 1941 |
| Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | December 7, 1941 |
| Year? D-Day (Allied invasion of Europe) | 1944 |
| Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1945 |
| Name a WWII general who led the invasion of Normandy and later became a US President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| Name the US WW II general and army Chief of Staff who after the war as Secretary of State came up with a plan to rebuild Europe | George Marshall |
| Who was Douglas MacArthur? | A controversial World War II general who led troops mostly in the Pacific. |
| Who was Winston Churchill? | The British Prime Minister during WW II |
| Who was the Nazi dictator of Germany? | Adolph Hitler |
| Who was the most brutal Soviet dictator | Joseph Stalin |
| Why was the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 a surprise to Stalin? | Two years earlier they had signed the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact. |
| When and what was D-Day? | June 6, 1944 Eisenhower commanded the allied invasion of Normandy, France |
| In ____, the US Dropped a nuclear bomb first on the Japanese city of ___, and three days later on the Japanese city of ____. | Hiroshima, Nagasaki |
| Why did President Truman decide to drop nuclear bombs on Japan? | He did not believe Japan would surrender easily without the bomb, and continued fighting would have a great cost in American lives. |
| Who was Hideki Tojo? | A Japanese general who also became Prime Minister. His aggressive policies led Japan into WW II. |
| Who was Hirohito? | Emperor of Japan who fearing his monarchy would be destroyed, did not prevent the military's aggressive policies. |
| Economic dislocations following World War I led unstable: | political conditions |
| Worldwide depression in the 1930s provided opportunities for the rise of ___ in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, and Japan | dictators |
| A communist dictatorship was established by ____ and continued by ____ in the Soviet Union | Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin |
| The Treaty of Versailles worsened economic and political conditions in Europe and led to the rise of ___ regimes in Italy and Germany. | totalitarian |
| Japan emerged as a world power after World War I and conducted: | aggressive imperialistic policies in Asia. |
| Why did dictatorial governments emerge in Germany, Italy, Japan, and the USSR after World War I? | Economic conditions led to unstable political conditions following WW I. The treaty of Versailles put an even greater economic burden on Germany. |
| Describe Stalin's policies in the USSR between the wars. | Entrenchment of communism, Stalin's policies (five-year plans, collectivization of farms, state industrialization, secret police) Great Purge |
| Describe Germany during the interwar period - | Inflation and depression, Democratic government weakened, Anti-Semitism, National Socialism (Nazism), German occupation of nearby countries |
| What is genocide? | The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group |
| Hitler believed in a ____ race | master |
| What was Hitler's final solution? | Extermination camps, gas chambers |
| Name several examples of genocide | Hitler's final solution: Armenians by leaders of the Ottoman Empire; Peasants, government and military leaders, and members of the elite in the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin; The educated, artists, technicians, former government officials by Pol Pot in Ca |
| An example of genocide - The educated, artists, technicians, former government officials, monks and minorities were killed by | Pol Pot in Cambodia |
| An example of genocide - Tutsi minority by Hutu in - | Rwanda (Africa) |
| An example of genocide - Muslims and Croats were killed by Bosnian Serbs in - | former Yugoslavia |
| An example of genocide - Armenians were killed by leaders of the - | Ottoman Empire |
| An example of genocide - Peasants, governments and military leaders, and members of the elite were killed by | Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union |
| What were the outcomes of World War II? | European powers' loss of empire; Establishment of two major powers in the world: US and USSR; War crimes trials; Division of Europe - Iron Curtain; Establishment of the UN; Marshall Plan; Formation of NATO and Warsaw Pact |
| One outcome of WW II was the establishment of two major powers in the world: | The United States and the USSR |
| One outcome of WWII was the ___ ___, a division of Europe into Soviet and western spheres of influence. | Iron Curtain |
| What was the Marshall Plan? | Plan to rebuild Europe after WWII |
| What is NATO? | North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( a military alliance of the western European democracies) |
| What was the Warsaw Pact? | A military alliance of the Eastern European countries in the Soviet sphere of influence. |
| What happened to Germany after WW II? | Democartic government installed in West Germany and West Berlin; Germany and Berlin divided amoung the four Allied powers; Emergency of West Germany as economic power in postwar Europe |
| After WW II, Germany and Berlin were divided among - | four Allied powers - US< Britain, Russia, France |
| What happened to Japan after WW II? | US occupied Japan under MacArthur's administration; Democracy and economic development; Elimination of Japanese offensive military capabilities; United States' guarantee of Japan's security; and Japan emerged as dominant economy in Asia. |
| Who administered the US occupation of Japan after WW II? | MacArthur |
| Competition between the United States and the USSR laid the foundation for the | Cold War |
| ____ failed as an economic system in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. | Communism |
| The Cold War began with the ____ Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe. | Yalta |
| The Cold War was characterized by: Democracy and the free enterprise system versus | dictatorship and communism |
| What were some of the Soviet Satellite nations after WW II? | Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania |
| What period of time saw the beginning of the Cold War? | 1945 - 1948 |
| What were some of the Cold War conflicts? | NATO v. Warsaw Pace; Korean Conflict; Vietnam War; Berlin and significance of Berlin Wall; Cuban Missile Crisis; Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence |
| When did the Soviet Union collapse? | 1989 |
| What were the causes and consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union? | Soviet economic collapse; Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries; Tearing down of Berlin Wall; Breakup of USSR; Expansion of NATO |
| After World War II, the United States pursued a policy of ____ against communism. | containment |
| The Cold War led to armed conflict in: | Korea and Vietnam |
| What is containment: | Policy for preventing the expansion of communism |
| How did China split after the end of the Chinese civil war? | Division of China into two nations at the end of the Chinese civil war; Chiang Kai-shek Nationalist China (island of Taiwan); Mao Tse-tung Communist China; Continuing conflict between the two Chinas |
| Who became the leader of Nationalist China on the island of Taiwan? | Chiang Kai-shek |
| Who became the leader of Communist China on the Mainland? | Mao Tse-tung |
| Describe the conflict in Vietnam. | Role of French Imperialism; Leadership of Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam as a divided nation; Influence of policy of containment; The US and the Vietnam War; Vietnam as a reunited communist country today |
| Who was a leader of the Indian independence movement, and what tactics did he use? | Mohandas Ghandi - civil disobedience and passive resistance |
| People in India wanted freedom from ___ rule. | British |
| The charter of the United Nations guaranteed colonial populations the right to: | self-determination |
| Independence movements in Africa challenged European: | imperialism |
| The US president during WW I was: | Woodrow Wilson |
| During WW I Germany was led by - | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
| At first America declared neutrality and refused to enter the fighting in Europe. The US declared war on Germany after - | attacks by German subs on American ships. |
| Russia withdrew from WW I the same year the US entered the war - | 1917 |
| WW I resulted in the end of several empires including the - | Russian, Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian empires |
| Colonies' participation in the World War I increased demands | independence |
| What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles? | Forced Germany to accept guilt for war and loss of territory and pay reparations; Limited the German military |
| What were the causes of the 1917 revolutions in Russia? | Defeat in war with Japan in 1905; Landless peasantry; Incompetence of Tsar Nicholas II; Military defeats and high casualties in World War I |
| When Russia entered WW i, the country was ruled by a - | Tsar |
| Before World War I, there were sharp divisions in Russia between the: | nobility and peasants. |
| The Tsar did not resolve the grievances of workers and peasants. Harships of World War I led to: | revolution and an unsuccessful provisional government. |
| A second revolution by the ____ created the communist state that ultimately became the USSR. | Bolsheviks |
| ____ ____ pushed the Russian economy into chaos, quickening the collapse of the czarist regime and leading to the Russian Revolution. | World War I |
| The Russian Revolution occurred in tow phases. In the March Revolution, czar ___ was replaced by a ___ ___. | Nicholas II, provisional government |
| Russia's November Revolution was led by ___ ___, who was leader of the ____ Party. | Vladimir Lenin, Bolshevik |
| What was the League of Nations? | International cooperative organization; Established to prevent future wars |
| Why did the League of Nations fail? | United States not a member; Failure of League because it did not have power to enforce its decisions |
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