AP World History Unit Six Flashcards
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| 6787619325 | triple alliance | Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; created and negotiated by Otto von Bismarck | 0 | |
| 6787624062 | Schlieffen Plan | called for a German attack on France through Belgium | 1 | |
| 6787625571 | Archduke Franz Ferdinand | killed by Gavrilo Princip while visiting Sarajevo in 1914; started WW1 | 2 | |
| 6787631550 | central powers | alliance of Ottomans, Germany, and Austria-Hungary | 3 | |
| 6787633097 | isolationism | policy of staying neutral to focus on internal affairs | 4 | |
| 6787636801 | Zimmerman Telegram | secret message sent between German diplomats saying Mexico would side with them and gain territory back from US--> intercepted by US and they entered WW1 | 5 | |
| 6787645258 | Treaty of Versailles | official treaty to end WW1, signed in 1919 | 6 | |
| 6787647124 | League of Nations | joint council of nations; proposed by President Wilson | 7 | |
| 6787649798 | Vladimir Lenin | Marxist leader; mobilized support/ soldiers; issued April Theses which demanded peace, land, and power for the Soviets | 8 | |
| 6787657312 | Red Army | created by Bolsheviks, commanded by Leon Trotsky | 9 | |
| 6787661472 | New Economic Policy | made by Lenin and had some capitalist aspects | 10 | |
| 6787662543 | Joseph Stalin | too leadership of communists after Lenin | 11 | |
| 6787667305 | Five Year Plans | used by Stalin to industrialize and collectivize agriculture to increase production | 12 | |
| 6787673459 | Fascism | destroy the will of the individual in favor of the people, wanted extreme nationalism and relied on racial identity | 13 | |
| 6787678006 | Nazis | National socialist party, rose to power in Germany in the 1920's | 14 | |
| 6787679879 | Adolf Hitler | head of the Nazi party, inspired nationalism and renewed greatness to a depressed Germany | 15 | |
| 6787687877 | Munich Conference of 1938 | Hitler, Mussolini, and Neville Chamberlain, gave appeasement--> Hitler got Sudetenland with the promise of ceasing his expansionist activities | 16 | |
| 6787695337 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | Germany wouldn't invade Soviet union if Soviets stayed out of German military affairs | 17 | |
| 6787699796 | Winston Churchill | new leader of Britain, refused to deal with Germany, lead to Battle of Britain | 18 | |
| 6787703143 | Manhattan Project | US development of Atomic bomb | 19 | |
| 6787704728 | D-Day | English, American, and Canadian troops land on the beaches of Normandy | 20 | |
| 6787708730 | Marshall Plan | US gave money to Europe to recover from WW2 | 21 | |
| 6787711827 | Soviet Bloc | group consisting of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary | 22 | |
| 6787717023 | Western Bloc | group consisting of Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, West Germany, Greece, and Turkey | 23 | |
| 6787723238 | NATO | western bloc; North Atlantic Treaty Organization | 24 | |
| 6787727121 | Warsaw Pact | Military alliance of soviet bloc | 25 | |
| 6787728771 | iron curtain | line between the east and western part of Europe which neither could penetrate | 26 | |
| 6787733584 | Mao Zedong | led communists in China, pushed out Kuomindong, and established the People's Republic of China | 27 | |
| 6787737571 | Cultural Revolution | implemented by Mao Zedong, discouraged a privileged ruling class, wanted to rid China of cultural influences | 28 | |
| 6787743737 | Ho Chi Minh | led the communists in Northern Vietnam | 29 | |
| 6787748445 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | authorized by President Kennedy, Cuban exiles invaded the bay in Cuba but were quickly shut down | 30 | |
| 6787752282 | Cuban Missile Crisis | soviets were shipping missiles to Cuba, was quickly blocked by the US | 31 | |
| 6787758005 | Muslim League | established in India to advance causes of Islamic Indians | 32 | |
| 6787761324 | Amritsar Massacre | catapulted united Indian independence movement | 33 | |
| 6787765592 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | wanted to form a Muslim nation separate from India called Pakistan | 34 | |
| 6787769184 | Gamal Nassar | overthrew the king of Egypt and established a Republic | 35 | |
| 6787770704 | NGOs | nongovernmental organizations that provide relief and aid to people | 36 | |
| 6787772969 | apartheid | separation of races; greatly used in South Africa | 37 | |
| 6787775312 | Zionists | Jewish Nationalists that convinced Arthur Balfour that they should have a Jewish homeland in Palestine | 38 | |
| 6787780358 | Declaration of 1917 | stated that Jews have a right to a homeland in Palestine | 39 | |
| 6787782780 | pogroms | anti Semitic mobs that streamed into Palestine | 40 | |
| 6787789558 | Palestinian Liberation Organization | dedicated to reclaiming Palestinian land but has not been successful | 41 | |
| 6787794458 | Iranian Revolution | Shah was ousted; Iran now ran by a theocracy led by Ayatollah Khomeini | 42 | |
| 6787798733 | OPEC | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; united Middle East in 1960 to help them gain a larger profit from oil exporting | 43 | |
| 6787804447 | Saddam Hussein | led Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, wanted more control of the worlds oil reserves | 44 | |
| 6787808946 | Persian Gulf War | UN and US drove Iraqis out of Kuwait | 45 | |
| 6787812287 | North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement | NAFTA; was a regional trading block | 46 | |
| 6787815483 | Group of six or G6 | forum for major industrial democracies | 47 |