Origins and development of authoritarian and single-party states
Cold War
20th Century Europe
100
This peace treaty was not signed by the United States following WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
100
This was the policy that was followed by Great Britain and France to ensure that a second world war did not break out.
What was appeasement?
100
This man vied with Stalin for the leadership of Russia after the death of Lenin.
Who was Leon Trotsky?
100
This was the US plan for the economic rebuilding of Europe following WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
100
The agreement signed between Hitler and Stalin to not attack one another before WWII.
What was the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact of 1939?
200
These laws were passed in Germany to limit the rights and movement of Jews by the Nazi Party.
What are the Nuremberg Racial Laws of 1935?
200
This is when all society is affected by a conflict.
What is total war?
200
This was the book that Hitler wrote in prison after the Munich beer hall putsch outlining his anti-Semitic and anti-Communist views.
What was Mein Kampf of My Struggle.
200
The infamous de-Stalinization speech was given by this man in 1956, three years after Stalin's death.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
200
The victors justice that was meted out by the Allied Nations following WWII occurred in these two cities.
What was the Nuremberg and Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals?
300
This conference limited the naval buildup of certain nations.
What was the Washington Conference of 1921-22?
300
This incident provide the opportunity for LBJ to put US troops on the ground in Vietnam and escalate the US presence.
What was the Tonkin Gulf Resolution/Incident?
300
This was the purge conducted by Hitler and the SS to ride himself of any rivals in the Nazi Party.
What was the Night of the Long Knives in 1934 that eliminated the SA?
300
This Soviet leader was responsible for the SALT treaties and the era of detente.
Who was Leonid Brezhnev?
300
This Soviet leader is credited for the end of the Cold War and blamed for the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
This incident provided an opportunity for the Kwantung army and Japan to expand into this territory.
What is the Mukden or Manchurian Incident of 1931?
400
The conflict ended with an armistice and the splitting of the country at the 38th parallel.
What was the Korean War 1950-53?
400
This was the name given to the propaganda surrounding all aspects of Stalin and his rise to power to develop a base of support.
What was a Cult of Personality?
400
The man who was US President at the time of the first major crisis of the Cold War surrounded the city of Berlin when Stalin blocked off all goods to Western Berlin.
Who was Harry Truman?
400
This was the Soviet response to the West's NATO.
What was the Warsaw Pact of 1955?
500
This pact signed by over 60 nations renounced war as a method for settling disputes.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928?
500
This was the requirement by the Allied Nations of both Germany and Japan to end WWII.
What was "unconditional surrender"?
500
This was the name of the farmers who owned small plots of land and opposed Stalin's plan of collectivization.
Who were the Kulaks?
500
This US President delivered a statement on October 22, 1962 declaring certain terms in regards to Cuba.
Who was John F. Kennedy and what was the Naval Quarantine?
500
This was the name given to the US strategic defense initiative or SDI under the Reagan administration.