Shifting Power
This group of reformers emerged during the decline of the Ottoman Empire. They advocated for a constitution for the country and to push its multiethnic culture to accept only the Turkish culture.
The Young Turks
German ruler during WWI
- Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Otto von Bismarck
The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash of 1929 in the US
The Great Depression
The reason why Russia surrenders to the Germans early during WWI (In 1917)
Russian Revolution
The bombing of this port city by the Japanese led to the US joining the war on December 7th, 1941
Pearl Harbor
The name of the program that Roosevelt started at the beginning of the war to start building an atomic bomb.
The Manhattan Project
The region known as the "powder keg" prior to World War 1 AND give at least 2 examples of countries that are part of this region.
The Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia, Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Romania)
An organization representing the revolutionary working class of Russia under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin. Believed in the ideology of Communism
Bolsheviks
Franz Ferdinand (Archduke of Austria-Hungary)
deliberate killing of a group of people, especially of a particular ethnic group or nation
genocide
Hostility or prejudice against Jews is known as
Anti-Semitism
"lightning war"; a fast moving warfare used by German forces against Poland in 1939
Blitzkrieg
The conference that occurred in July 1945 to discuss what to do with Germany and how Japan would be defeated AND which leaders were present
Potsdam Conference
The Rowlatts Acts were passed by the British government in India after WW1 and caused much protest amongst Indians. These protests eventually led to what bloody event?
The Amritsar Massacre
These two Mexican revolutionaries fought for the peoples rights, especially peasants, during the Mexican Revolution
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata
Limited portion or allowance of food or goods, typically during total war in the home front
The night of broken glass; on November 9th, 1938, mobs in support of Naziism destroyed Jewish properties and terrorized Jews in Germany; it was a precursor to the Holocaust
Kristallnacht
Organization formed after WWI to promote cooperation and peace, but was ineffective because it could not stop aggressive nations from invading other nations
League of Nations
An allied assault on the beaches of Normandy (Northern France) to take France back from under German control in 1944. It was the largest amphibious assault in history and led to an allied victory
D-Day (Operation Overlord)
The month/day/year AND time of the armistice ending WW1
11/11/18 at 11 a.m.
Dictator from Mexico for over 34 years. He was overthrown at the beginning of the Mexican Revolution in 1910.
Porfirio Diaz
Led the first Chinese Republic after the fall of the Qing Empire in 1911. Was only in office for two months before conflicts arose between various warlords as well as the Chinese Communist Party.
Sun Yet-Sen
What were the four MAIN causes of WWI?
- Militarism
- Alliances
- Imperialism
- Nationalism
This incident happened in a Chinese city which the Japanese invaded in 1937. It led to the murder, rape, and torture of thousands of Chinese civilians by the Japanese military
Nanjing Massacre
The policy of giving into the demands of aggressors
Appeasement
A methodical plan orchestrated by Hitler to blame Jews as a scapegoat and to ensure German superiority. It called for the elimination of Jews, non-conformists, communists, homosexuals, and the mentally and physically disabled
Final Solution / Holocaust
Which empire starved and murdered as many as one million Armenians?
Ottoman Empire
After the fall of the Qing, China will fight a civil war both before and after World War II which involve these two major groups.
- The Chinese Nationalist Party
- The Chinese Communist Party
The ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand forces) fought against the Ottoman Empire at this location for a year that led to massive losses on both sides. it was fought over the Dardanelles.
Galipolli
The name of the German government that accepted the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles after WWI.
Weimar Republic
When Hitler wanted more "living space" for the German people, this was known as
Lebensraum
Nickname of the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Little Boy & Fat Man
Hitler put these laws into effect in 1935 that defined the status of Jews in German society and took away their right to be considered "citizens" of Germany.
Nuremburg Laws
Who were the leaders of the two sides of the Civil War in China?
Vs.
Mao Zedong (Tse-Tung)
Name at least 3 stipulations of the Treaty of Versailles
Germany had to demilitarize the Rhine Zone, army of less than 100,000, guilt clause, "blank check", give coal from Saar River Valley for 15 years, Loss of territory, No alliances/unification between Germany and Austria
Name at least 2 Totalitarian leaders who emerged in the 1930s and their nicknames
Stalin = Man of Steel
Hitler = Fuhrer
Mussolini= Il Duce
Name 3 parts of the Treaty of Versailles that Hitler defied in the 1930s.
This agreement allowed Hitler to take over the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.
The Munich Agreement
The spark that caused the U.S. to enter World War 1
Zimmerman Telegram