World War 2 & Cold War Flashcards

5665695785	What government did the Treaty of Versailles (TOV) appoint to lead Germany after WW1?	Democrat, Weimar Republic	0
5665698555	Why was the TOV unsuccessful? What did it create?	Created resentment, upsetting Germany	1
5665703589	What is the best way to describe a Totalitarian state?	Government is supreme and individuals have little to no rights.	2
5665706616	How did Nazism differ from Fascism and communism?	Nazi is racist and anti-sematic	3
5665712994	List 4 Totalitarian States that came to power in the 1920s and the 1930s and name their leaders?	1. Benito Mussolini (Italy) 2. Joseph Stalin (Russia) 3. Prime Minister Tojo (Japanese Empire) 4. Adolf Hitler (Germany)	4
5665717002	What was going on in the world that allowed these totalitarian governments to come to power?	Economic depression	5
5665720072	List the countries Nazi Germany took prior to WW1	Rhineland, Czech.	6
5665722545	Why was Hitler so appealing to the German people after WW1?	Gave hope, eliminated opponents, great speaker, camps were undesirable, gave them scapegoats for troubles	7
5665728198	Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 for similar reasons that the Nazi invaded Russia during WW1. What is the reason?	raw materials	8
5665735940	Explain the policy of appeasement.	accepting the demanded of the aggressor to the war	9
5665740623	What message did Churchill send by delivering a speech?	Britain will not surrender to Germany	10
5665749312	What conference did Hitler claim he had no more territorial claims? What following invasion prompted the start of WW2?	Munich conference. The Germans invaded Poland.	11
5665766647	Whats Operation Barbarossa? Who started it? What the result?	Barbarossa is the invasion of the soviet union. Didn't go well.	12
5665769878	What were the Allies after Pearl Harbor?	Great Britain, U.S, Russia	13
5665772331	What were the Axis after Pearl Harbor?	Germany, Japan , Italy	14
5665774902	What were the major turning points in the battle for Europe in WW2?	Battle of Stalingrad and Operation of Torch	15
5665779064	When, where, and by whom was the largest amphibious invasion?	D-day June 6,1944 in France by the allies.	16
5665781140	Whats the Manhattan project?	Developing of the atomic bomb	17
5665785322	Which nation was the first to capture Berlin in WW2?	USSR and Soviet Union	18
5665788481	What was the turning point in the Pacific theater of WW2?	Battle of Midway	19
5665794159	Why did Harry S. Truman decided to drop the bombs on Japan?	Military, anger racial, political, scientific	20
5665800631	What did the world learn of after Allied forces began liberating Europe from the Nazis?	Holocaust, plans and detail	21
5665804582	What permanent country did this create, why and who sanctioned the creation?	Israel wanted homeland for Jews	22
5665806473	Describe how the Soviet command economy works.	Government controls what bought and sold and how much of it	23
5665811647	What doctrine created the policy of containment, relative to communism following WW1?	Truman Doctrine	24
5665814464	Who predicted it and what did he call it?	Iron curtain, Churchill created it	25
5665816472	What sphere was under influence of the USA?USSR?	USA controlled West, USSR controlled East	26
5665822107	Explain the two aims were for the US and USSR in relation for the post-war Europe.	US wanted to rebuild Germany keep them weak	27
5665827901	What happened to Germany following WW2 in terms of its territory and control?	Divided into 4 different zones	28
5665832186	Explain the Berlin Airlift and what symbol was built because of it 1961 that would define the Cold War.	Berlin wall was built, supplying west	29
5665833740	Why was the Marshall Plan so successful?	Created Allies	30
5665839316	What would both the United States and the Soviet Union offer countries that needed help developing and rebuilding after WW2?	saw military and economic AID for rebuilding	31
5665861497	What was the goal of the Soviet Union in establishing satellite nations in Eastern Europe during the Cold War?	established control in East Europe & established communism also	32
5666170513	What was the most important military strategy of the cold war?	nuclear missles	33
5665866300	Whats the best way to describe the Cold War?	tensions between super powers	34
5665874321	Who won the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? How?	the whole world, missles were removed from Cuba and Turkey	35
5665877753	Define M A D	Mutually Assured Distruction	36
5665880837	How did the theory of MAD prevent another World War from happening?	Eye for an Eye, if someone did something, they did it back	37
5665883139	What was the space race? Who won and how?	Technological competition, US won, 1969	38
5665885765	Who sent the first satellite into space? What was its name?	Soviets and Sputnik	39
5665888469	What was Yuri Gagarin's response to being up in space?	Earth is blue	40
5665895623	What was the symbolic end to the Cold War? Who won?	United States won, Berlin Wall	41