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Part 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Stalins' 5-Year Plan | The first five-year plan of the USSR was a list of economic goals, created by Communist Party General Secretary Joseph Stalin, based on his policy of Socialism in One Country. |
| What was Hitler confident about theTreaty of Versailles? | Hitler was confident that the western states who had signed the treaty of versailles would not use force to maintain it. |
| Treaty of Versailles | The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | Britain's policy in the 1930s of allowing Hitler to expand German territory unchecked. Most closely associated with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is now widely discredited as a policy of weakness. |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did HItler want and get? | He wanted to unite all Germans into one nation. In September 1938 he turned his attention to the three million Germans living in part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland. Sudeten Germans began protests and provoked violence from the Czech police. |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | On September 1, 1939, the German army under Adolf Hitler launched an invasion of Poland that triggered the start of World War II (though by 1939 Japan and China were already at war). The battle for Poland only lasted about a month before a Nazi victory. |
| Mudken Incident | The Mukden Incident, or Manchurian Incident, was an event staged by Japanese military personnel as a pretext for the Japanese invasion in 1931 of northeastern China, known as Manchuria. |
| n 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | In 1940, Japan was forced to decide which it needed more, Indochina's raw materials or US oil and scrap iron |
| December 7, 1941 | Pearl Harbor Bombing |
| Dunkirk | in 1940 during World War II. An amphibious evacuation in World War II when 330,000 Allied troops had to be evacuated from the beaches in northern France in a desperate retreat under enemy fire. |
| Blitzkrieg | Blitzkrieg is a method of warfare where the attacker, spearheaded using a force concentration of armored and motorized or mechanized infantry formations with close air support. |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Adolf Hitler vaguely declared in his political manifesto and autobiography Mein Kampf that he would invade the Soviet Union, asserting that the German people needed to secure Lebensraum to ensure the survival of Germany for generations to come. |
| Battle of Stalengrad | In the Battle of Stalingrad, Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad in Southern Russia. |
| battle of midway island | The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place on 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. |
| Total War | Total war, such as World War I and World War II, mobilizes all of the resources of society (industry, finance, labor, etc.) to fight the war. It also expands the targets of war to include any and all civilian-associated resources and infrastructure. |
| Yalta | A conference held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | The Tehran Conference was a strategy meeting of Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill from 28 November to 1 December 1943, after the Anglo-Soviet Invasion of Iran. It was held in the Soviet Union's embassy in Tehran, Iran. |
| Why did Truman want to avoid invasion of Japan? | First, Truman wanted to avoid a land invasion of Japan, which would have killed thousands of Americans. Second, he was determined to impose unconditional surrender on the Japanese because anything short of that would have made him appear weak. |
| Nazi's Final Solution | The Final Solution or the Final Solution to the Jewish Question was a Nazi plan for the genocide of Jews during World War II. The Final Solution to the Jewish question" was the official code name for the murder of all Jews within reach. |
| Extermination camps | Nazi Germany primarily used six extermination camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust in World War II to systematically murder millions of Jews. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | Jews worldwide |
| Marshall Plan | The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. |
| The U.S. and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Estern Europe should do what? | The United States and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should freely determine their own governments. to prevent the spread of communism, provided close to $13 billion to rebuild wartorn Europe. |
| Warsaw Pact | Warsaw Pact, formally Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. |
| Cold War | The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II. |
| What country became communist in 1949 which in tern made the U.S. fear the spread of communism? | In 1949, anti–communist fear, and fear of American traitors, was aggravated by the Chinese Communists winning the Chinese Civil War against the Western-sponsored Kuomintang, their founding of the People's Republic of China. |
| Truman Doctrine | The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt, serving from 1954 until his death in 1970. Nasser led the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy and introduced far-reaching land reforms the following year. |
| Fascist Government | Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe. |
| Numemberg Laws | The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws in Nazi Germany. They were enacted by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting convened during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. |
| Six-Day War | The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between 5 and 10 June 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. |
| Policy of containment | Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | Americans feared more sinister uses of the Soviets’ new rocket and satellite technology, which was apparently strides ahead of the U.S. space effort. Sputnik was some 10 times the size of the first planned U.S. satellite. |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | "The Troubles" refers to the three-decade conflict between nationalists (mainly self-identified as Irish or Roman Catholic) and unionists (mainly self-identified as British or Protestant). |
| Red-Scare Movement | A "Red Scare" is the promotion of a widespread fear of a potential rise of communism or anarchism by a society or state. The name refers to the red flags that the communists used. |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to stop an exodus from the eastern, communist part of divided Germany to the more prosperous west. |
| Gorbechev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | Political reform |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | President Jimmy Carter requests that the Senate postpone action on the SALT-II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | Too many political reforms |
| European Union's first goals | The European Union is set up with the aim of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. |
| Why did Margaret Thatcher resign? | She resigned as prime minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. |
| North American Free Trade Agreement | The North American Free Trade Agreement was an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | Three days later, the United States broke diplomatic relations with Germany, and just hours after that the American liner Housatonic was sunk by a German U-boat. |
| Major causes of WWI | The two major alliances that developed prior to WWI were the Triple Entente (Allies) and the Triple Alliance. The Triple Entente consisted of Great Britain, France and Russia. Many nations from around the globe were competing for control of land to get it |
| Military plan by german general von Schlieffen | Schlieffen Plan, battle plan first proposed in 1905 by Alfred, Graf (count) von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff, that was designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war. |
| Western front characteristic | Men lived in midden trenches while constantly being pounded by artillery. Lice and the like were rife trough the trenches, "trench foot" which at away men's feet, shell shock which broke the minds of men, that's what the western front consisted of. |
| Central Powers | The Central Powers were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I. The members included Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria and their territories. |
| Militarism | Militarism is the belief or the desire of a government or a people that a state should maintain a strong military capability and to use it aggressively to expand national interests and/or values. |
| Third Reich | Third Reich, official Nazi designation for the regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945. |
| Paris Peace Conference | The victorious wartime Allied powers negotiated the details of peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland. |
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