AP World History Quarter 4 Final Flashcards

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