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Potpourri
100

This peacekeeping organization was created as a part of the Fourteen Points.

What is The League of Nations?

100

The term for the global economic downturn that occured between WWI and WWII.

What is the great depression?

100

The term for the alliance that included Germany and, Itay, and Japan.

What is the Axis?

100

This was the largest of the concentration camps in Europe.

What is Auschwitz?

100

Another name for Lightning War.

Blitzkrieg.

200

This term refers to the communist party in Russia. They carried out a revolution in 1917.

What is "Bolsheviks?"

200
This refers to Woodrow Wilson's plan for peace after WWI.

What is "The Fourteen Points?"

200

This term refers to the policy that accepts demands in order to avoid a bigger conflict. 

What is appeasement? 
200

The complete destruction of one of China's largest Cities by the Japanese. Mass atrocities were committed against the citizens.

The Rape of Nanking

200

The zone between the trenches during World War I, which led to a stalemate.

What is No Man's Land?

300

Two reasons why America joined WWI

The sinking of the Lusitania

The Zimmerman Telegram.

300

The term for Stalin's plan to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union.

What is "Five Year Plan?"

300

This was a strategy used in the Pacific Campaign.

What is island Hopping?

300

The Cambodian genocide was carried out by this group.

What is the Khmer Rouge?

300

The term used for a night of organized violence against the Jewish people in Germany ("Night of Broken Glass").

What is Kristallnacht?

400

What are the MAIN reasons for WWII

Militarism

Alliances

Imperialism

Nationalism

400

New economic ideas that rejected laissez-faire capitalism.

Keynesian Economics

400

Hitler threw everything he had at taking over this Soviet Industrial City.

Stalingrad

400

The term for the Ukrainian famine created by the Soviets in the 1930s that resulted in millions of deaths.

What is the Holodomor?

400

1917 statement by the British, said Palestine should be permanent home for Jews of Europe

The Balfour Declaration

500

Name THREE conditions of The Treaty of Versailles.

Germany was forced to give up its colonies.

War Guilt Clause.

Billions of reparations to be paid.

Demilitarized Rhineland between Germany and France.

German Military Reductions.

500

Name three countries that turned to fascism. Include their leader's name.

Hitler - Germany

Mussolini - Italy

Franco - Spain

Tojo - Japan

500

Name three aspects of Total War.

Economics: restructuring of economy to a wartime economy (ex. Changes in factory production)

Society: women working jobs previously held by men, increased production of propaganda to increase nationalism

Rationing: saving food/resources for soldiers

Political: temporary changes to law (ex. Sedition Acts)

Conscription: drafting of citizens for fighting 

500

The Rwandan Genocide had two groups.

The ____ were the majority who committed the genocide.

The ____ were the minority who were forced to run for their lives.

Hutus

Tutsis

500

Name four groups of people targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Jewish People

Black people in Germany

civilians (non-Jewish) accused of disobedience, resistance, or partisan activity

gay men, bisexual men, and other men accused of homosexuality in Germany

Jehovah’s Witnesses

people with disabilities

Poles

political opponents and dissenters in Germany

Roma and other people derogatorily labeled as “Gypsies”

social outsiders in Germany derogatorily labeled as “asocials” or “professional criminals” 

Soviet Prisoners of War

600

Name FOUR new weapons used during WWI

Grenades

Tanks

Trench Mortars

Submarines

Airplanes

Gas Attacks

600

In FDR's New Deal what were the 3 R's that the plan promoted?

Relief, Recovery, Reform

600

Name Three battles of WWII

1941 Siege of Leningrad

1941 Pearl Harbor

1942 Battle of El Alamein

1942 Battle of Stalingrad

1942 Battle of the Coral Sea

1942 Battle of Midway Island

1944 D-Day

1944 Battle of the Bulge

1943 Battle of Kursk

600

Name FOUR atrocities of the 20th century

The Holocaust

The Armenian Genocide

The Holodamor in the Ukrane

Firebombing in Dresden or Tokyo

Rwanda Genocide

Sudan

The Rape of Nanking

600

Before Hitler invaded Poland he took several smaller territories. Name two.

The Rhineland

Austria

Czechoslovakia

The Sudatenland

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