Ap Flashcards

13460552902	Pearl Harbor	Japanese Surprise Attack on the United States on December 7th 1941	0
13460552903	D-Day	Landing of Allied Forces on Normandy Beach June 6th 1944	1
13460552904	Battle of the Atlantic	Naval War between Nazi Germany and Great Britain which last from 1939 until 1945	2
13460552905	Battle of Britain	An aerial battle fought in World War II in 1940 between the German Luftwaffe (air force), which carried out extensive bombing in Britain, and the British Royal Air Force, which offered successful resistance.	3
13460552909	Bombing of Dresden	British and American bombing of the German city of Dresden from February 13th to February 15th	4
13460552906	Kamikaze	a Japanese aircraft loaded with explosives and making a deliberate suicidal crash on an enemy target.	5
13460552910	mass unemployment		6
13460552911	Five year plan/Collectivization of Agriculture	a government plan for economic development over five years. The first such plan in the Soviet Union was inaugurated in 1928.	7
13460552907	Gulags	Administration in charge of Soviet labor camps from 1929-1953(Gulags are referred to as the prisons camps themselves)	8
13460552912	Great Famine	The result of four years of potato crop failure in the late 1840s in Ireland, a country that had grown dependent on potatoes as a dietary staple.	9
13460552908	Bolsheviks	a member of the majority faction of the Russian Social Democratic Party, which was renamed the Communist Party after seizing power in the October Revolution of 1917.	10