Chinese Civil War
Two opposing factions in the Chinese Civil War.
What are the Guomingdang/Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD/KMD) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
The Cuban leader ousted by Fidel Castro during the Revolution.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
What is Germany?
The unsuccessful policy used to prevent war which gave in to Hitler's demands for more land.
What is appeasement?
The two countries involved in the Malvinas/Falklands War.
What is Great Britain and Argentina?
The socio-economic class that would lead the class revolution, according to Mao.
What is the proletariat?
The site of the attack that is considered the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
What was the first poison gas attack used in WWI?
What is chlorine gas?
The name for "lightning war". Used by Germany in their invasion of Poland.
What is Blitzkrieg?
The country that laid claim to the islands first.
What is Argentina?
The war that interrupted the two halves of the Chinese Civil War (1927-37 and 1946-49).
What is the Sino-Japanese War?
The Agreement/Amendment that was the basis for US intervention in Cuba's international and domestic affairs.
The military plan employed by Germany during WWI that was ultimately not successful (dealt with Germany's two-front war against France and Russia).
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
The research and development project that produced the first nuclear weapons during World War II?
What the Argentines lacked that ultimately led to their loss in the war.
What is morale?
The 9,000 km trek to Shaanxi over the duration of 368 days led by Mao Zedong to break through the GMD's encirclement of the CCP at Jiangxi.
What is the Long March?
What Castro planned to do to US economic interests in Cuba.
What is nationalization?
What was the name of Woodrow Wilson's aims after the end of WWI?
The number of zones of occupation in Germany after WWII.
What is four?
What were the British advantages?
What are...
1. Stronger allies (USA and France)
2. Better trained
3. As a member of the Security Council in the UN, and the USSR failure to veto the UN's condemnation of Argentine actions
4. Higher morale
The reasons for Communist (CCP) success.
1. Guerrilla tactics and revolutionary warfare
2. Mao Zedong's leadership
3. Successful spread of Communist ideas
4. Success of the People's Liberation Army (PLA)
The social reforms that Castro implemented during his regime.
What are...
1. Added jobs for the unemployed
2. Redistribution of land
3. Improved urban working conditions
4. Women's rights
5. Improved standard of living (healthcare and education)
Criticisms of the Treaty of Versailles.
What are...
1. war guilt clause (blamed Germany for the entirety of the war)
2. disarmament of Germany
3. failure to invite Germany to the League of Nations
(all led to anger in Germany and catalysts for WWII)
The codename of the operation that invaded France on D-Day.
What is Operation Overlord?
The political impact of the war in Britain.
What is strengthening the leadership of Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party?
What is heightened nationalism and patriotism?