Final Review
Define: Fascism
GB-Winston Churchill
F-Charles DeGaulle
USSR-Joseph Stalin
US-Franklin Roosevelt
Germany-Hitler
Italy-Mussolini
Japan-Hirohito
What are the Neutrality Acts enacted by the US?
US policies centered around the concept of isolationism
What is the domino theory?
idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under communist control.
What is the Great Purge?
Ethiopia
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan after World War II?
to provide economic assistance to European countries.
What is Hitler's Final Solution?
extermination of the Jews.
What ethnic group did Nazis consider to be the "master race"?
Aryans
What Chinese city was brutally invaded and controlled by the Japanese, who executed tens of thousands? (It is also known as the "rape of ---")
Nanjing
WWII: Operation Overlord involved the Allied invasion of which country?
France
What is the joint declaration issued by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt in 1941 known as ?
Atlantic Charter
Why was the Battle of Midway significant?
turned the tide of war against the Japanese.
Douglas MacArthur
Erwin Rommel
What was a result of the Nuremberg Trials?
some top Nazi officials received death sentences.
What are Stalin's "Five Year Plans"?
Stalin's idea for industrial growth.
the imaginary line that divided communist and democratic Europe.
Ho Chi Minh
What is the Berlin airlift?
The US and Britain fly and drop supplies into West Berlin.
Why was the UN formed?
To prevent future wars
What US policy led to US involvement in Vietnam?
containment
Which Spanish dictator did Hitler and Mussolini support?
Francisco Franco
The Great Leap Forward
Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in 1939?
Germany invaded Poland
What is Nato and why was it created?
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is created as a military defense between the U.S. and Western Europe
What is appeasement?
A policy of giving into the demands of another in order to preserve peace
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Alliance between the USSR and 7 Eastern European countries.
The command economy under Stalin was under the control of who?
The state
The violent suppression of demonstrators by British troops in 1919 at which city almost plunged India into full-scale war?
Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany in 1939?
Night of broken glass. Night that German citizens smashed the windows of Jewish owned businesses.
The Cold War
What is the period of conflict between the US and USSR from 1945-1991 known as?
Name the leaders of WWII on both sides.
What is Kristallnacht?
The Balfour Declaration
Germany was experiencing an economic depression.
What happened to American citizens of Japanese decent after the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule.
Who led North Vietnam in its fight against South Vietnam and the US?
What is the iron curtain?
Which general was sent to lead the Africa Campaign by Hitler?
Why were Germans drawn to Nazism during the 1930s?
What is the name given to the People's Republic of China's plan for larger collective farms and backyard industries?
Which American general was forced to flee the Philippines when the Japanese invaded?
Stalin's attack on dissidents that started in 1934
They were interned in concentration camps.
What document supported the idea of setting up "a national home for the Jewish people?"
World History Semester 2 Final Review
Which action ended the Non-Aggression Act signed by Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939?
What country did Mussolini invade in his attempt to build an empire?
When Germany attacked the Soviet Union