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STUDY GUIDE 2!!!!!
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stalins' 5-Year Plan | Stalins 5 year plan was a plan made by Joseph Stalin which was concentrated on developing heavy industry and collectivizing agriculture, at the cost of drastic fall in consumer goods. |
| What was Hitler confident about theTreaty of Versailles? | not use force to maintain it. |
| Treaty of Versailles | a treaty in ww1 that brought the war to end. |
| Great Britain appeasement policy | a policy that was made in the 1930s to allow hitler from expanding german territory |
| What part of Czechoslovakia did HItler want and get? | Sudetenland |
| Hitler's invasion of Poland | In 1939, Adolf Hitler launched an attack on Poland that triggered the start of world war 2 |
| Mudken Incident | when japanese soldiers invaded a small town in china known as manchuria. |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what? | wether it needed indochina's raw materials or U.S oil and scrap iron. |
| December 7, 1941 | attack on pearl harbor |
| Dunkirk | when germany advanced to france, trapping allied troop on the beaches of dunkrirk |
| Blitzkrieg | a war method where the attacker spearheads an offensive using a rapid overwhelming force concentration that may consist of armoured and motorised or mechanised infantry formations . |
| Why did Hitler plan to conquer the Soviet Union? | Hitler had always wanted to see Germany expand eastwards to gain Lebensraum or 'living space' for its people. After the fall of France Hitler ordered plans to be drawn up for an invasion of the Soviet Union. |
| 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 | naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. |
| Total War | Total war is a war fought without limitations on targets or weapons. Ideological or religious conflicts are more likely to give rise to total war. |
| Yalta | Yalta is a resort city on the south coast of the Crimean Peninsula surrounded by the Black Sea. |
| Tehran Conference in 1943 | The Tehran Conference was a meeting between U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943. |
| 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 | They used the term “Final Solution” to refer to their plan to annihilate the Jewish people. |
| Extermination camps | Nazi Germany operated more than a thousand concentration camps on its own territory and in parts of German-occupied Europe. The first camps were established in March 1933 immediately after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. |
| Who were victims of Hitler? | ethnicity, religion, political beliefs, or sexual orientation. |
| 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 | The Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw, Poland between. |
| Cold War | The Cold War was a period of ideological and geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union, and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, after World War II |
| What country became communitst in 1949 which in tern made the U.S. fear the spread of communisim? | Czechoslovakia was the last country in Eastern Europe to fully fall to communism in 1948. |
| Truman Doctrine | With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. |
| Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser | Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was an Egyptian politician who served as the second President of Egypt from 1954 until his death in 1970. |
| Fascist Government | a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition and strong regimentation of society |
| Numemberg Laws | The Nuremberg Laws were antisemitic and racist laws that were enacted in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935, at a special meeting of the Reichstag 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 between Israel and Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. |
| Policy of containment | Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. |
| America feared what when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I in 1957 | Americans feared that the Soviets whom they believed were behind the U.S. technologically after the devastation of World War II could launch ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons at the United States." |
| Northern Ireland fighting in the 60's and 70's was against what two religious groups? | The conflict began during a campaign by the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association to end discrimination against the Catholic/nationalist minority by the Protestant/unionist government of Northern Ireland and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC). |
| Red-Scare Movement | The First Red Scare, which occurred immediately after World War I, revolved around a perceived threat from the American labor movement, anarchist revolution, and political radicalism. |
| Why was the Berlin Wall built? | So the soviets could not invade berlin. |
| Gorbechev soon realized that economic reform would not succeed without what? | Politcal reform |
| How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? | by instituting a trade and boycotting the olympics in moscow |
| By 1980 what was the Soviet Union ailing from? | The Cold War stagnated. The Cold War became a World War. |
| 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 1990, after a challenge was launched 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 that created a trilateral trade bloc in North America. |
| Why did the U.S. join allies in fighting WWI? | The U.S. entered World War I because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war. |
| Major causes of WWI | it included politics, imperalism and the assasination of Archduke Ferdinand of austria. |
| Military plan by german general von Schlieffen | designed to allow Germany to wage a successful two-front war. |
| Western front characteristic | Instead, defences were constructed using sandbags and wood and were heavily protected by barbed wire, the defining feature of the Western Front. |
| Central Powers | The Central Powers were a group of nations fighting against the Allied Powers during World War I. |
| 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 | The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazis' conceit that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire |
| Paris Peace Conference | The Paris Peace Conference was the formal meeting in 1919 and 1920 of the victorious Allies after the end of World War I to set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. |
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