AP World History Quarter 4 Final Flashcards
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6847640161 | Weimar Republic | German government after WWI | 0 | |
6847640892 | Nazi Party | National Socialist German Worker's Party | 1 | |
6847641505 | Adolf Hitler | Leader of the Nazi Party | 2 | |
6847641506 | Beer Hall Putch | Hitler's first attempt to gain national power | 3 | |
6847642723 | Mein Kampf | "My Struggle" Book Hitler wrote that outlined the Holocaust | 4 | |
6847645670 | Fuhrer | "Leader" Hitler's title | 5 | |
6847647021 | SS | Military of the Nazi Party | 6 | |
6847650280 | Night of the Long Knives | Hitler had the Nazi Party purged of all opposition | 7 | |
6847651140 | Rudolf Hess | Deputy Fuhrer | 8 | |
6847651141 | Josef Goebbels | Minister of propaganda | 9 | |
6847651621 | Heinrich Himmler | Leader of the SS | 10 | |
6847652512 | Reinhard Heydrich | Organizer of the "Final Solution" | 11 | |
6847653511 | Adolf Eichmann | Coordinator of the "Final Solution" | 12 | |
6847656569 | Albert Speer | Minister of armaments | 13 | |
6847657523 | Hermann Goering | Head of the Luftwaffe (Air Force) | 14 | |
6847658505 | Karl Doenitz | Head of the Navy and the final Fuhrer | 15 | |
6847659854 | Wilhelm Keitel | Head of the Wehrmacht (Army) | 16 | |
6847662131 | Nuremberg Race Laws | Deprived the Jews of all rights | 17 | |
6847665992 | Night of the Broken Glass | Night of organized violence against the Jews | 18 | |
6847666598 | Axis Powers | Germany, Italy, and Japan during WWII | 19 | |
6847671138 | Munich Pact | France and Britain appeased Hitler | 20 | |
6847671707 | Wehrmacht | Regular German armed forces | 21 | |
6847672482 | Blitzkrieg | Lightening war | 22 | |
6847676810 | Vichy France | French government that was loyal to Hitler | 23 | |
6847676819 | Charles de Gaul | Leader of Free France | 24 | |
6847677384 | Final Solution | The Holocaust, Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews | 25 | |
6847678411 | Battle of Stalingrad | One of the turning points of the war. The German defeat ended their eastward advance | 26 | |
6847682444 | Rommel | German general who led the African campaign, known as the "Desert Fox" | 27 | |
6847682949 | Montgomery | Leader of the British forces | 28 | |
6847683936 | Battle of El Alamein | The turning point of the War in Africa where the Allies stopped the German advance | 29 | |
6847687509 | Patton | Leader of the U.S. armor divisions during the African and European campaigns | 30 | |
6847689090 | Battle of Kasserine Pass | Germany's last attempt to defeat the allies in Northern Africa | 31 | |
6847690363 | D day | June 6, 1944, it was the allied invasion of Europe. It was the largest amphibious invasion ever. | 32 | |
6847845522 | Battle of the Bulge | Last German offensive | 33 | |
6847847048 | Yalta Conference | Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin meet to decide what to do with Europe after the war. | 34 | |
6847856053 | Nuremberg War Crime Trials | Where the Nazi leaders were punished | 35 | |
6847857565 | Russo Japanese war | The first time an Asian nation defeated a western power | 36 | |
6847859810 | Hirohito | Emperor of Japan | 37 | |
6847859811 | Tojo | Premier of Japan during WWII | 38 | |
6847867746 | Yamamoto | Leader of the Japanese navy | 39 | |
6847871695 | Pearl Harbor | U.S. Naval Base, bombed by Japan on December 7, 1941, bringing the U.S. into WWII | 40 | |
6847876990 | Nimitz | Commander of the U.S. Pacific fleet | 41 | |
6848779275 | Bull Halsey | Right hand man to Nimitz in the Pacific | 42 | |
6848779757 | MacArthur | Leader of the U.S. military forces in the Pacific | 43 | |
6848780126 | Battle of the Coral Sea | The first naval battle where the ships never saw each other | 44 | |
6848781746 | Battle of Midway | The turning point of the war in the Pacific | 45 | |
6848782245 | Island Hopping | U.S. plan of taking Japanese held islands one at a time | 46 | |
6848783217 | Battle of Guadalcanal | First major invasion of Japanese held island | 47 | |
6848784041 | Marianas Turkey Shoot | 402 Japanese planes were shot down | 48 | |
6848789961 | Battle of Leyte Gulf | Last ship on ship naval battle ever fought. The first time that Japan used the Kamikaze | 49 | |
6848792674 | Iwo Jima | One of the bloodiest island invasions of the war. Allowed the U.S. to bomb mainland Japan | 50 | |
6848793305 | Okinawa | Last great U.S. campaign of World War II. Losses were so great, that the U.S. chose to drop the atomic bomb | 51 | |
6848795129 | Hiroshima | The city that the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb on | 52 | |
6848796329 | Crimean War | Russia attacked the Ottoman Empire. France and Britain joined on the Ottoman side and helped defeat the Russians. Showed the need for reforms in Russia | 53 | |
6848844058 | Trans Siberian Railroad | Connected European Russia with the Pacific | 54 | |
6848844601 | Meiji Restoration | History in 1868 when the last shogun was overthrown and the emperor assumed control over the nation | 55 | |
6848864830 | Russo Japanese War | First time an Asian nation defeated a western power | 56 | |
6848866711 | Battle of Tsushima Strait | Naval battle between the Russian and Japanese Navy. Decisive Japanese victory, ending the Russo-Japanese War | 57 | |
6848875123 | Revolution of 1905 | Demonstrations and fighting throughout Russia after the Russo-Japanese War | 58 | |
6848884741 | Duma | Russian assembly created after the Revolution of 1905, stripped of power during the reign of Nicholas II | 59 | |
6848885584 | Otto Von Bismarck | German statesman whose leadership led to the unification of Germany | 60 | |
6848889339 | Imperialism | Creation of Empires | 61 | |
6848889866 | H.M.S. Dreadnought | The battleship that revolutionized naval power. Her entry into service marked the advance in naval technology | 62 | |
6848891863 | Militarism | Increased attention and influence placed in the militaries | 63 | |
6848894862 | Nationalism | Countries were pursuing policies that would benefit themselves | 64 | |
6848896056 | Triple Alliance | Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary before 1914 | 65 | |
6848896945 | Triple Entente | Britain, France, and Russia before 1914 | 66 | |
6848898004 | Black Hand | Bosnian Nationalist Group | 67 | |
6848898472 | Princip | Assassinated Archduke Ferdinand | 68 | |
6848898970 | Archduke Ferdinand | Heir whose assassination triggered WWI | 69 | |
6848899390 | Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire during WWI | 70 | |
6848901146 | Allied Powers | Britain, France, Russia, and eventually the U.S. during WWI | 71 | |
6848901712 | War of Attrition | Wearing-down manner of warfare | 72 | |
6848905754 | Battle of Gallipoli | Austrian soldiers were decimated by Turks and German soldiers | 73 | |
6848906322 | Battle of Jutland | Sea battle between Germany and Britain; German sea prowess was limited after this | 74 | |
6848910533 | Lusitania | Luxury liner sunk by a German submarine, one of the events leading to U.S. entry into World War I | 75 | |
6848912179 | Zimmerman Note | Secret telegram sent by Germany to Mexico, which helped to draw the U.S. into World War I | 76 | |
6848915305 | Czar Nicholas II | Ruler of Russia overthrown during the Russian Revolution | 77 | |
6848919406 | Rasputin | A Russian monk and advisor to the Czar's wife, he helped to destroy the royal family | 78 | |
6848920383 | Bolsheviks | Became the Communist Party | 79 | |
6848920384 | V.I. Lenin | Led the Bolsheiviks | 80 | |
6848921463 | Red Army | Another name for the Bolshevik forces | 81 | |
6848921843 | White Russians | Forces that opposed the Bolsheviks | 82 | |
6848922791 | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics | What the Communists renamed Russia | 83 | |
6848923615 | Treaty of Versailles | Treaty that ended WWI | 84 | |
6848923616 | League of Nations | Organization formed after World War I to maintain peace | 85 | |
6893441441 | Cold War | A conflict between the Communist nations led by the Soviet Union and Democratic nations led by the United States from 1945 until 1991. | 86 | |
6893446399 | Truman Doctrine | Pledged to support people resisting Communism. | 87 | |
6893450336 | Marshall Plan | A plan would help rebuild free economies of Europe. | 88 | |
6893451874 | Containment policy | The U.S. policy to peacefully block Communism | 89 | |
6893455304 | NATO | The United States and its allies formed an organization to protect the West against Communism. | 90 | |
6893461041 | Warsaw Pact | The Soviet Union and its allies as an answer to N.A.T.O. | 91 | |
6893464198 | Berlin Wall | Wall erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989 | 92 | |
6893468856 | Sun Yat-Sen | Chinese statesman; first president of the Republic of China | 93 | |
6893476624 | Kuomintang | Political party founded by Sun Yat-sen in dominant China under the leadership of Chiang Kai-shek. The official ruling party of Taiwan. | 94 | |
6893484228 | Mao Zedong | Founder of the Chinese Communist Party. Proclaimed the People's Republic of China | 95 | |
6893486993 | Chiang Kai-shek | Political figure who led the Nationalists, after the death of Sun Yat-Sen against the Communist forces was driven to Taiwan | 96 | |
6893493302 | The Long March | The journey undertaken by some 100,000 Chinese Communists. They made their way to Northwest China; only about 8,000 survived | 97 | |
6893502593 | Korean War | The conflict between North Korea, aided by China, and South Korea, aided by U.S. troops. | 98 | |
6893508534 | Vietnam Conflict | Conflict fought between Communist and non-Communist forces for control of South Vietnam | 99 | |
6893510865 | Ho Chi Minh | The leader of the Communist-nationalist group known as the Viet Minh | 100 | |
6893524473 | Dienbienphu | The Viet Minh trapped the French army. They withdrew from Vietnam | 101 | |
6893543113 | Viet Cong | Underground Communist army in South Vietnam | 102 | |
6893545129 | Ho Chi Minh Trail | Routes that Communist North Vietnamese used to reach the South | 103 | |
6893547172 | Tet Offensive | Communist offensive: the Communist hit major targets all over South Vietnam; changed public opinion in the U.S. | 104 | |
6893555860 | Fidel Castro | Cuban leader who established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba | 105 | |
6893562625 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | An unsuccessful action to invade southern Cuba in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro | 106 | |
6893567897 | Cuban Missile Crisis | Standoff between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. over missiles in Cuba | 107 | |
6893571340 | Sputnik | The satellite launched by the Soviets that carried the Cold War into space | 108 | |
6893576502 | Glasnost | Policy in the Soviet Union of openly and frankly discussing economic and political realities. | 109 | |
6893579743 | Perestroika | Program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union | 110 |