4232069144 | Five Year Plans | Stalin's system of economic planning | 0 | |
4232085568 | Benito Mussolini | leader of fascist Italy | 1 | |
4232074942 | National Socialist Workers Party | Hitler was the leader of this political and ideological party | 2 | |
4232126443 | "Total War" | during WWI, refers to the mobilization of economic, natural, and human resources for the war effort | 3 | |
4232118143 | Balance of Power in Europe | late 1800s-early 1900s, destabilizing factors included strong sense of nationalism, colonial rivalries in Africa and Asia, and German aggression | 4 | |
4232144074 | WWI | considered a global conflict due to the warring powers holding colonies that participated in the war | 5 | |
4232196808 | Battle of the Marne | 1914, forced Germany to abandon its general plan for winning the war quickly | 6 | |
4232136350 | Outcome of WWI | League of Nations called for disarmament and global security; United States became a world economic power; Treaty of Versailles required Germany to pay war reparations | 7 | |
4232213517 | Mandate System after WWi | most Arab countries were divided among the British and French who sent armies to prevent independence even though they could have achieved independence | 8 | |
4232164634 | 1916, western front WWI | settled into a stalemate, many people died for little gain | 9 | |
4232184671 | Treaties that ended WWI | League of Nations was formed, Germany was forced to accept blame and pay reparations, Austria-Hungary was divided up into separate countries | 10 | |
4232254901 | Scientific Revolution after WWI | psychoanalysis, sociology, theory of relativity | 11 | |
4232160424 | sea warfare of WWI | consisted mostly of German submarine warfare on commercial shipping | 12 | |
4232234942 | France and Belgium | experienced the greatest environmental damage from WWI | 13 | |
4232203482 | Mustafa Kemal | policies included abolishing the Sultanate, instituting civil marriage and divorce, civil equality for women and the right to vote, and discouraging the veiling of women and the fez hat for men in order to modernize Turkey | 14 | |
4232225468 | weaknesses of League of Nations | failure of the world's new power to join and in fighting among the great Allied powers (US did not join and therefore this organization could not effectively enforce sanctions that threatened peace) | 15 | |
4232241217 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk | allowed Russia to withdraw from WWI, allowed Germany to shift their focus from the eastern to the western front, Russia lost territories along the Baltic | 16 | |
4237597636 | Fear of Communism | the primary reason for the rise of totalitarian regimes after WWI | 17 | |
4232148619 | Bolsheviks | group of Russian Marxists that adopted Lenin's ideals and approaches | 18 | |
4232081599 | Japanese military aggression | resulted in the conquest of Manchuria, Korea, and Taiwan by the end of 1938 | 19 | |
4232087172 | Hitler's nonaggression Pact | signed with the Soviet Union to avoid a two-front war in 1939 | 20 | |
4232093569 | Blitzkrieg | German war strategy during WWII ("lightning war") | 21 | |
4232096615 | Battle of Britain | British victory due to the bravery of the royal family, high morale of citizens, and radar detection | 22 | |
4232101322 | Hitler's "Final Solution" | targeted Jews, homosexuals, Gypsies, the mentally-ill, homeless in mass executions | 23 | |
4232277978 | Japan and Germany before WWII | both withdrew from the League of Nations over land disputes | 24 | |
4232285754 | Causes of WWI and WWII | political instability of the nations in Eastern Europe | 25 | |
4232157447 | Russia and Austria-Hungary | these two nations were in direct diplomacy and competition over the Balkans | 26 | |
4232169955 | Balfour Declaration | a Jewish settlement in the Middle East was promised by the British in this document | 27 | |
4232194567 | Electricity, Automobiles, and Skyscrapers | these technologies had major impacts on urban living in the early 20th century | 28 | |
4232260116 | Japan's "sphere of influence" late 1800s | Japan believed the countries were China, Korea, and Manchuria at this time | 29 | |
4232304986 | demilitarization of Japan after WWII | the impact was the ability to devote a significant share of the nations budget to industrialization | 30 | |
4232132032 | Sun Yat-Sen | the first Chinese leader who was neither a foreign invader nor part of an imperial dynasty | 31 | |
4232281217 | Chinese Communist Party | adapted Marxist communism in order to accommodate and fain support of a large peasant population | 32 | |
4232290033 | end of the Cold War | the economic costs to both the US and Soviet Union that were required to sustain the conflict eventually was the largest factor that brought it to an end | 33 | |
4237545529 | Chinese and Mexican Revolutions | both generated land redistribution policies | 34 | |
4237550585 | Chinese peasant women in the 1940s and 1950s | Maoist policies that banned arranged marriages and made women an important part of the Communist movement | 35 | |
4237553333 | the Great Depression | triggered by the collapse of the American stock market | 36 | |
4237606241 | Axis aggressions before WWII | Germany annexed Austria, Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, and Italy invaded Ethiopia | 37 | |
4237556862 | Hitler and the Jews prior to WWII | German Jews were forced to wear armbands, their property were seized, and they were forced to leave professional jobs | 38 | |
4237599033 | Hitler's Platform for the Nazi Party | Germans were a superior race, Jews were responsible for the German defeat in 1918, employment would be made available for all men, all German peoples should be united and Germany needed living space | 39 | |
4237558893 | Fascist Germany | factors leading to the development include the impact of the Depression, the treaty arrangements after WWI, and the shaky tradition of parliamentary government that was forced on Germany | 40 | |
4237570825 | France | the Allied landing in this country in 1944 created a European front against Germany in WWII | 41 | |
4237574099 | Battle of Midway | greatest battle in naval history; Japanese fleet was put out of commission in 1942 due to loss of many of its carriers | 42 | |
4237564528 | Germany under Hitler | economic planning helped to reduce unemployment through rearmament of the military; established a totalitarian government | 43 | |
4237572767 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last effort to repel the Allied armies in 1944 due to weakness in the Allied lines | 44 | |
4237614345 | Manchuria | in 1931, Japan marched in and declared this an independent state, which led to Chinese boycotting Japanese goods | 45 | |
4237576091 | European theater in WWII | by summer 1940 most of France was in German hands with a collaborative regime in Vichy to deal with the rest of it | 46 | |
4237587649 | German government after WWII | France, Britain, and the US merged their territories to form the Federal Republic of Germany during the Cold War | 47 | |
4237580077 | United Nations | this institution was created as a result of WWII to prevent future wars | 48 | |
4237585123 | The Marshall Plan | a program of loans designed to aid Western European nations in rebuilding from WWII's devastation | 49 | |
4237578353 | Japan's surrender in the Pacific | caused by the use of atomic weapons on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US | 50 | |
4237543602 | Greece and Turkey | the Truman Doctrine was put to use first in these countries | 51 | |
4237567625 | Collectivization | Soviet agricultural policy following Stalin's concentration of power in 1928 | 52 | |
4237542582 | Berlin | city that was the symbolic point for the beginning and end of the Cold War | 53 | |
4237546685 | Africa after 1946 | most African colonies gained National Independence | 54 | |
4237548548 | Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi | both appealed to peasants as a base for support | 55 | |
4232262839 | Cold War strategies | Soviet Union supplied Middle Eastern nations with military supplies and advisers, US and Soviets built up arsenals of traditional, biological, and nuclear weapons in order to prevent war, the US supported totalitarian dictatorships in some Latin American and Middle Eastern countries | 56 | |
4237583338 | Iron Curtain | the phrase Winston Churchill coined to describe the division between free and oppressed societies after WWII | 57 | |
4237589283 | "Third World" countries | distinguished by the lack of industrialization when compared to other countries | 58 | |
4237590507 | "First World" countries | original nations include the US, Japan, and Britain | 59 | |
4237592493 | Latin America in the 20th century | remained remarkably unchanged, the old institutions and patterns of politics and economy have adapted to new situations | 60 | |
4237602232 | German appeasement in 1930 | European powers appeased Germany in 1930 due to weakness of the western democracies, fear of communism, and a yearning for peace | 61 | |
4237616879 | Hitler's rise to power | came to power in Germany as a result of legal and constitutional means | 62 | |
4237618158 | Korean War | this Cold War event benefited Japan in the 19502 due to the US purchasing of supplies and spending by servicemen stationed in Japan | 63 | |
4237621003 | Vietnam | both France and the US lost wars against communist insurgents in this country in the 1950s through the 1970s | 64 | |
4237622430 | Launching of Sputnik | this Cold War event was primarily responsible for a massive technology race between the USSR and US beginning in the 1950s | 65 | |
4237624693 | Warsaw Pact | a military alliance of the Soviet Union and its eastern bloc satellite nations to counter/respond to NATO | 66 |
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