AP World History Chapter 31 Flashcards
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| 9675202683 | National Socialist Party | Also known as the Nazi Party; led by Adolf Hitler in Germany; picked up political support during the economic chaos of the Great Depression; advocated authoritarian state under a single leader, aggressive foreign policy to reverse humiliation of the Versailles treaty; took power in Germany in 1933. | 0 | |
| 9675269721 | Winston Churchill | British prime minister during WWII; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults. | 1 | |
| 9675541843 | blitzkrieg | German term for lightning warfare; involved rapid movement of airplanes, tanks, and mechanized troop carriers; resulted in early German victories over Belgium, Holland, and France in WWII. | 2 | |
| 9675558752 | Vichy | French collaborationist government established in 1940 in southern France following the defeat of the French armies by the Germans. | 3 | |
| 9675583639 | Battle of Britain | the 1940 Nazi air offensive including saturation bombing of London and other British cities, countered by British innovative air tactics and radar tracking of German assault aircraft. | 4 | |
| 9675627684 | Holocaust | Term for Hitler's attempted genocide of European Jews during WWII; resulted in the death of 6 million Jews. | 5 | |
| 9675674848 | Battle of the Bulge | Hitler's last-ditch effort to repel the invading Allied armies in the winter of 1944-1945. | 6 | |
| 9675691816 | Pearl Harbor | American naval base in Hawaii; attack by Japanese on this facility in December 1941 crippled American fleet in the Pacific and caused entry of US into WWII. | 7 | |
| 9675724431 | Battle of the Coral Sea | WWII Pacific battle; US and Japanese forces fought to a standoff. | 8 | |
| 9675724432 | Midway Island | WWII Pacific battle; decisive US victory over powerful Japanese carrier force. | 9 | |
| 9675760152 | United Nations | international organization formed in the aftermath of WWII; included all of the victorious Allies; its primary mission was to provide a forum for negotiating disputes. | 10 | |
| 9675775336 | Tehran Conference | meeting among leaders of the US, Britain, and the USSR in 1943; agreed to the opening of a new front in France. | 11 | |
| 9675775337 | Yalta Conference | meeting among leaders of the US, Britain, and the USSR in 1945; agreed to Soviet entry into the Pacific war in return for possessions in Manchuria, organization of the United Nations; disputed the division of political organization in the eastern European states to be reestablished after the war. | 12 | |
| 9675797232 | Potsdam Conference | meeting among leaders of the US, Britain, and the USSR just before the end of WWII in 1945; Allies agreed upon Soviet domination in eastern Europe; Germany and Austria to be divided among victorious Allies. | 13 | |
| 9677615327 | total war | warfare of the 20th century; vast resources and emotional commitments of belligerent nations were marshaled to support military effort; resulted from impact of industrialization on the military effort reflection technological innovation and organizational capacity. | 14 | |
| 9677615328 | Atlantic Charter of 1941 | WWII alliance agreement between the US and Britain; included a clause that recognized the right of all people to choose the form of government under which they live; indicated sympathy for decolonization. | 15 | |
| 9677643420 | Quit India Movement | massive civil disobedience campaign that began in the summer of 1942 to end British control of India. | 16 | |
| 9677643421 | Muslim League | founded in 1906 to better support demands of Muslims for seperate electorates and legislative seats in Hindu-dominated India; represented division within Indian nationalist movement. | 17 | |
| 9677646049 | Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Muslim nationalist leader in India; originally a member of the National Congress party; became leader of Muslim League; traded Muslim support for British during WWII for promised of a separate Muslim state after the war; first president of Pakistan. | 18 | |
| 9677733308 | Convention People's Party (CPP) | political party established by Kwame Nkrumah in opposition to British control of colonial legislature in Gold Coast. | 19 | |
| 9677801980 | Jomo Kenyata | leader of the nonviolent nationalist party in Kenya; organized the Kenya Africa Union (KAU); failed to win concessions because of resistance of white settlers; came to power only after suppression of the Land Freedom Army, or Mau Mau. | 20 | |
| 9677833035 | National Liberation Front (FLN) | Radical nationalist movement in Algeria; launched sustained guerilla war against Franch in the 1950s; success of attacks led to independence of Algeria in 1958. | 21 | |
| 9677839207 | Secret Army Organization (OAS) | organization of French settlers in Algeria; led guerilla war following independence during the 1960s; assaults directed againsdt Arabs, Berbers, and French who advocated independence. | 22 | |
| 9677864095 | Afrikaner National Party | emerged as the majority party in the all-white South African legislature after 1948; advocated complete independence from Britain; favored a rigid system of racial segregation called apartheid. | 23 | |
| 9677864096 | apartheid | policy of strict racial segregation imposed in South Africa to permit the continued dominance of whites politically and economically. | 24 | |
| 9677886409 | Haganah | Zionist military force engaged in violent resistance to British presence in Palestine in the 1940s. | 25 |