AP World History Ch 29 Flashcards

14152273885	Joseph Stalin's goal was to	turn the USSR into an industrail nation	0
14152273886	Stalin's First Five-Year Plan stressed	increases in electricity and heavy industries	1
14152273887	The Soviet Union paid for the First Five-Year Plan by	squeezing the peasants	2
14152273888	The reaction to collectivization of the better-off peasants, or kulaks, was to	burn their crops and kill their livestock	3
14152273889	Over ______ kulaks were arrested, some were executed, and the rest starved to death in gulags.	8 million	4
14152273890	How did the Nazi takeover of Germany affect Stalin's Second Five-Year Plan?	Stalin intended to produce consumer goods but decided to produce arms instead	5
14152273891	An example of Stalinist terror in the 1930s was the	secret police arresting people accused of party disloyalty	6
14152273892	Despite the Stalinist terror, Soviet women	entered jobs and careers previously closed to them	7
14152273893	The stock market crash of 1929 turned into	the deepest, most widespread depression in history	8
14152273894	Which two countries were particularly hard hit by the Depression?	Japan and Germany	9
14152273895	Nationalists during the Depression yearned for autarchy, which was defined as	self-sufficiency and economic independence from the world economy	10
14152273896	The effect of the Depression on non-industrial nations was	very uneven	11
14152273897	The South African economy boomed during the Depression because	the Depression made gold more valuable	12
14152273898	Why were people attracted to the messages of radical politicians after World War I?	they were embittered as a result of WW1 and unemployment and they were bewildered by modernity	13
14152273899	Italy's fasci di combattimento initially comprised mainly	unemployed veterans and violent youths	14
14152273900	Which of the following was not one of the actions taken by Benito Mussolini?	he took over the press	15
14152273901	What did Adolf Hitler write while in jail in the 1920's?	Mein Kampf	16
14152273902	Hitler's "master race" reserved intense hatred for	Jews	17
14152273903	Hitler's goal for Germany was	-to expand into Poland -to take over all of German-speaking territory -the repeal of the Treaty of Versailles -to eliminate the Jews from Europe	18
14152273904	Hitler's popularity came in large part from the German people's belief that	economic well-being outweighed a loss of liberty	19
14152273905	Despite the fact that Hitler violated the Treaty of Versailles	neither Britain nor France tried to stop him	20
14152273906	Italy took advantage of democratic weakness in 1935 when	Mussolini invaded Ethiopia	21
14152273907	The major powers at the Munich Conference in 1938	allowed Hitler to annex Czechoslovakian territory	22
14152273908	Which of the following does not account for the British and French policy of appeasement?	their desire to end imperialism	23
14152273909	Many Japanese nationalists thought that the answer to the Depression was to	have Japanese colonies	24
14152273910	Mao Zedong's variety of Communism was a radical departure from the traditional ideology because it	relied on the peasantry	25
14152273911	Which of the following was not among Mao Zedong's policies toward women?	he put women in leadership positions	26
14152273912	Eventually, Japanese leaders realized that the war with China	was a drain on Japanese resources	27
14152273913	At Nanjing, the Japanese troops raped	20,000 Chinese women	28
14152273914	Why did Mao Zedong stop getting aid from Stalin in 1941?	Stalin signed a Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact	29
14152273915	The German Blitzkrieg meant, literally,	lightning war	30
14152273916	In the early years of World War II, the Soviet Union invaded which of the following countries?	Poland and the Baltic States	31
14152273917	The German attack at Stalingrad was important because	it was the key to the Soviet oil supply	32
14152273918	The prime motivation for the Japanese invasion of Southeast Asia was	its abundant oil and rubber production	33
14152273919	On December 7, 1941	Japanese planes bombed the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor	34
14152273920	The key to victory in the Pacific Ocean was	aircraft carriers	35
14152273921	The final defeat of Japan took longer than victory over Germany in large part because	the United States had concentrated its efforts on Germany	36
14152273922	If the allies had agreed sooner to allow the Japanese to retain the emperor	the war might have ended without the use of the atomic bomb	37
14152273923	Soviet deaths during World War II numbered between ________ million	20 and 25	38
14152273924	Which of the following scientific and technological innovations were not spurred by World War II?	tanks	39
14152273925	The Holocaust is estimated to have killed ________ Jews.	6 million	40
14152273926	Which group was not murdered by the Nazis in the interest of "racial purity?"	Aryans	41
14152273927	Which of the following was not a result of increased United States production during World War II?	the economy performed at a minimal level	42
14152273928	One of the most significant long-lasting consequences of World War II in the United States was the	recruitment of women and minorities into the labor force	43
14152273929	The main cause of environmental stress during World War II was the	economic development that sustained the fighting	44
14152273930	In order to realize his vision of an industrialized Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin:	launched a series of Five-Year Plans.	45
14152273931	In response to resistance to collectivization, Stalin ordered:	the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class."	46
14152273932	Following the Stock Market crash, New York banks called in their loans to Germany and Austria causing them to:	stop paying reparations to Britain and France.	47
14152273933	At the height of Stalin's purges, some ________ people were sent to labor camps.	8 million	48
14152273934	The Depression affected nonindustrial countries:	because industrialized countries cut their imports of raw materials	49
14152273935	When ________ threatened to march on Rome in 1922 if he was not made prime minister, the government gave in.	Mussolini	50
14152273936	Which of the following does NOT explain why European leaders followed a policy of appeasement with Hitler?	People assumed that Hitler would overextend himself and then be easier to defeat.	51
14152273937	Japanese nationalists saw the conquest of ________ as the solution to their country's problems	China	52
14152273938	What was the Manchurian Incident?	A railway explosion that gave Japanese officers an excuse to take over Manchuria.	53
14152273939	The United States and Europe reacted to the Manchurian Incident by:	taking no real action.	54
14152273940	Why did the Western powers not leap immediately to China's aid when the Japanese attacked?	They were preoccupied with events in Europe and economic problems at home.	55
14152273941	Mao received little aid from the Soviet Union until:	Stalin signed the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Pact.	56
14152273942	By June 1940, Hitler had conquered all of the following EXCEPT:	Spain	57
14152273943	The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor believing that:	the shock of the attack would be so great that the United States would accept Japanese conquest of Southeast Asia.	58
14152273944	Which was NOT an advantage the Guomindang had over the communists?	Japanese support	59
14152273945	World War II represented a change in moral values as:	belligerents identified not just soldiers but entire peoples as enemies	60
14152273946	The Battle of Midway was significant because:	Japan lost four of its six largest aircraft carriers.	61
14152273947	The Nazis' "final solution" killed so many Jews because:	they applied modern industrial methods to the slaughter of human beings.	62
14152273948	The mass extermination of the Jews that cost six million lives is now called the	Holocaust	63
14152273949	Germany's defeat at ___________ in February 1943 meant that it had lost its last chance of defeating the Soviet Union and winning the war.	Stalingrad	64
14152273950	The allied landing on the coast of Normandy in June 1944 was known as	D-Day	65
14152273951	Stalin's second ___________ emphasized the development of heavy industry.	Five-Year Plan	66
14152273952	Adolf Hitler outlined his goals and ideas in	Mein Kampf	67
14152273953	The allies gave Hitler everything he wanted at the ___________ Conference of 1938.	Munich	68
14152273954	The 1920s & 1930s are often known as the	interwar period	69
14152273955	In the 1920s, Japan	struggled politically but succeeded economically	70
14152273956	In what nation did the first Fascist regime take power?	Italy	71
14152273957	Which of these best describes the League of Nations?	a debating society where much was said but little was done	72
14152273958	which of these nations did NOT experience political revolution in this era?	France	73
14152273959	Which of these was NOT a political or military leader in the era of the Mexican Revolution?	Rivera	74
14152273960	The international agreement outlawing war forever was the	Kellogg-Briand Pact	75
14152273961	Which of these was NOT a popular American innovation of this era?	Nationalized industries	76
14152273962	The Great Depression in the United States	had a ripple effect across the world and impacted many nations in Europe, Africa, and Asia	77
14152273963	The first fascist leader to gain control of a nation in these twentieth century was	Bentio Mussolini	78
14152273964	Hitler's goal was not prosperity or popularity but	conquest and revenge for WWI	79
14152273965	One of the founders & eventual leader of China's Communist Party was	Mao Zedong	80
14152273966	The so-called Long March	is the name give to the escape of the Chinese Communist Party from the Guomindang attempt to eradicate them	81
14152273967	When Japan attacked China in 1937,	Japan's leaders hoped for a quick victory and an end to japan's economic problems	82
14152273968	By the end of June 1940, Hitler	had conquered almost all of Europe except Spain, Great Britain, and the USSR?	83
14152273969	By the middle of 1943, it was becoming apparent that neither Germany nor Japan could win the war. In part this was due to	...	84
14152273970	Following the end of WWII in 1945, the Guomindang & the Chinese Communist Party	renewed their war against each other and for control of china's gov.	85
14152273971	Unlike in WWI, in WWII	there was less of a distinction b/w the "front" and the "home front"	86