AP World History Chapter 36 Flashcards
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| 9639806353 | Revisionist Powers | Japan, Germany and Italy (Axis Powers) who wanted to revise the Treaty of Versailles | 0 | |
| 9639806354 | Marco Polo Bridge | The first move in the invasion from Japan to China | 1 | |
| 9639806355 | The Rape of Nanjing | Japanese soldiers raped thousands of women, murdered unarmed civilians, and burned 1/3 of the houses in Nanjing | 2 | |
| 9639806356 | United Front Policy | Chinese unanimous decision among Communists and Nationalists that united themselves into an army against the Japanese | 3 | |
| 9639806357 | Tripartite Act | Japan-signed act with Germany and Italy that guaranteed economic and military support | 4 | |
| 9639806358 | Francisco Franco | Leader of Spanish Revolution who was aided by Hitler and Mussolini in order to overthrow the republican government | 5 | |
| 9639806359 | November Crime | Hitler's reference to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles | 6 | |
| 9639806360 | Anschluss | Germany's forced "union" with Austria | 7 | |
| 9639806361 | Munich Conference | European meeting that introduced appeasement (1938) | 8 | |
| 9639806362 | Appeasement | conceding to demands of aggressive nations | 9 | |
| 9639806363 | Neville Chamberlain | Britain's prime minister who represented during Munich Conference | 10 | |
| 9639806364 | Russia-German Treaty of Nonaggression | Treaty signed between Russia and Germany that stated neither side would attack the other and promised neutrality if either one went to war with a third party | 11 | |
| 9639806365 | fireside chats | Franklin Roosevelt's famous radio broadcasts to the nation | 12 | |
| 9639806366 | Franklin Roosevelt | president throughout WWII | 13 | |
| 9639806367 | Panzer | "armored" tanks | 14 | |
| 9639806368 | Nazi-Soviet Pact | Soviets took eastern Poland | 15 | |
| 9639806369 | Blitzkrieg | "lightning war" that Germany executed efficiently | 16 | |
| 9639806370 | Unterseboote | submarines | 17 | |
| 9639806371 | Luftwaffe | German air-force | 18 | |
| 9639806372 | Lebensraum | "living space" that was created for the Germans by exterminating Jews, Poles and Bolsheviks | 19 | |
| 9639806373 | Operation Barbarossa | Germany's invasion into Soviet Russia, lead by Hitler against Stalin | 20 | |
| 9639806374 | Leningrad | The German heartland that signaled Germany's official dominance over Soviet Russia | 21 | |
| 9639806375 | Pearl Harbor | Japanese attack on US-owned base in Hawaii, started US involvement in WWII | 22 | |
| 9639806376 | Vichy Government | German-backed French government | 23 | |
| 9639806377 | Tojo Hideki | assumed the office of Prime Minister in Japan, which eventually made him responsible for the bombing of Pearl Harbor | 24 | |
| 9639806378 | Liberty Ships | Allie's warships | 25 | |
| 9639806379 | D-Day | British and US troops landed on the coast of Normandy, eventually defeating the Germans there and taking back France | 26 | |
| 9639806380 | Dresden Fire Bombing | British bombed innocent Germans with extreme intensity | 27 | |
| 9639806381 | Reichstag | Germany's Parliament buidling | 28 | |
| 9639806382 | "Magic" | enabled a cryptographer monitoring Japanese radio frequencies to know about attack on Midway | 29 | |
| 9639806383 | Kamikaze | pilots who "volunteered" to fly planes with just enough fuel to fly into an Allie ship | 30 | |
| 9639806384 | Hiroshima and Nagasaki | sites of atomic bomb dropped by Allies on Japan | 31 | |
| 9639806385 | Emperor Hirohito | Surrendered to Soviet Union in 1945 | 32 | |
| 9639806386 | Greater Germanic Empire | Hitler's plan for a nation of racially valuable people (Aryans) | 33 | |
| 9639806387 | Waffen SS | Hitler's elite military formations | 34 | |
| 9639806388 | House of Orange | Netherlands royal figurehead that was disrespected by people | 35 | |
| 9639806389 | SS Einsatzgruppen | German action squads that killed entire populations of Jews and Gypsies | 36 | |
| 9639806390 | "final solution" | Hitler's plan to exterminate the "lesser race" by industrialized murder | 37 | |
| 9639806391 | Wannsee Conference | Germany's meeting to plan out the final solution | 38 | |
| 9639806392 | WAVES | Women Appointed for Volunteer Emergency Service in the navy | 39 | |
| 9639806393 | Comfort Women | Japanese women who were forced into brothels as compensation to Japanese soldiers war efforts | 40 | |
| 9639806394 | Cold War | Building of tension throughout the world at the end of WWII that implied a sense of Democracy versus Communism, making everyone strengthen opposing alliances | 41 | |
| 9639806395 | United Nations | a supranational organization that was dedicated to keeping world peace and security (formed by the US, Soviet Union, Great Britain, France and China) | 42 | |
| 9639806396 | Truman Doctrine | legitimized the "danger" of communism from a democratic US point of view | 43 | |
| 9639806397 | European Recovery Program/ Marshall Plan | proposed to rebuild European economies through cooperation and capitalism | 44 | |
| 9639806398 | COMECON | Soviet-established "Council for Mutual Economic Assistance" | 45 | |
| 9639806399 | North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | US-sponsored signalization of the cold war | 46 | |
| 9639806400 | Warsaw Pact | Soviet response to NATO | 47 | |
| 9639806401 | Berlin's Blockade | Soviet Union tried to get Western powers to surrender influence on Berlin, so they made a blockade all around it | 48 | |
| 9639806402 | Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) | US, Britain, France coalesced to form this | 49 | |
| 9639806403 | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) | Emerged out of Soviet zone of occupation, creating friction with West Germany | 50 | |
| 9639806404 | Berlin Wall | Wall that was built to separate East and West-influenced Berlin | 51 | |
| 9639806405 | Jiang Jieshi | Nationalist Chinese leader who fell after WWII | 52 | |
| 9639806406 | Mao Zedong | Communist opposed to Jieshi who founded People's Republic of China | 53 | |
| 9639806407 | Republic of Korea | US-sponsored Southern Korea | 54 | |
| 9639806408 | People's Democratic Republic of Korea | Soviet-Sponsored North Korea | 55 | |
| 9639806409 | Southeast Asian Treaty Organization | Imposed by US onto Korea, counterpart of NATO | 56 | |
| 9639806410 | "domino theory" | theory formed by Eisenhower that suggested Communism spreading around itself | 57 | |
| 9639806411 | MAD | mutually assured destruction | 58 | |
| 9639806412 | Fidel Castro Ruz | Cuban revolutionary who overthrew Batista and Zaldivar who eventually formed alliance with Soviet Union | 59 | |
| 9639806413 | Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar | autocratic leaders of Cuba before Fidel Castro who had strong ties with US | 60 | |
| 9639806414 | Bay of Pigs Invasion | US attempted to invade Cuba but epicly failed | 61 | |
| 9639806415 | John F. Kennedy | President during Cuban Missile crisis | 62 | |
| 9639806416 | *Nikita Khrushchev* | Soviet Premier who implemented de-Stalinization | 63 | |
| 9639806417 | Alexander Dubcek | Communist party leader who launched a "democratic socialist revolution" | 64 | |
| 9639806418 | Prague Spring | Dubcek's movement to promote "socialism with a human face" | 65 | |
| 9639806419 | Leonid Brezhnev | Khrushnev's successor who justified invasion of Czechoslavakia | 66 | |
| 9639806420 | detente | reduction in hostility in order to keep the peace between Democratic and Communist tension | 67 |