Cold War
Countries influenced and controlled by another. After WWII and Stalin’s promise at the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union established these nations in Eastern European countries. The reason he did this was to provide a barrier between him and the West.
What are Satelite Nations?
The day (June 6, 1944) in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. This action forced Germany to fight a two front War.
What is D-Day (Operation Overlord)
An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Imperial Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing, then the capital of China
What is the Nanking Massacre or the Rape of Nanking.
the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation
What is Genocide?
A plan that was created to increase China's economy and industry.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Churchill's name for a line that behind it lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia; all were subject, in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and in some cases increasing measure of control from Moscow.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This action was taken on Japan in the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki effectively ending the second World War.
What is the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb?
The League of Nations' diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to Germany in order to avoid conflict.
What is appeasement?
What is a Ghetto?
Was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China from 1966 until 1976. Launched by Mao Zedong, its stated goal was to preserve Chinese Communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong Thought (known outside China as Maoism) as the dominant ideology in the CPC.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This was an alliance of democratic countries that was established to stop the spread of communism. However, the Soviet Union responded to this by forming the Warsaw Pact, which was an alliance of Communist Countries that was established to protect their ideas. Some argue that the creation of this alliance actually increased the cold war tensions.
What is NATO?
Strategy targeted key islands and atolls to capture and equip with airstrips, bringing B-29 bombers within range of the enemy homeland.
What is Island Hopping?
In order to prevent war the Germans were given parts of this nation.
What is Czechoslovakia?
Also called Night of Broken Glass or November Pogroms, the night of November 9–10, 1938, when German Nazis attacked Jewish persons and property.
What is Kristalnacht?
a Chinese communist revolutionary who became the founding father of the People's Republic of China (PRC), which he ruled as the chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death
Who is Mao Zedong?
These 2 US policies were part of the Containment policy in Europe. The goal was to stop communism from spreading. In the first the US promised $400 million to Greece and Turkey. In the second the US promised $12 Billion to Western European countries to prevent the spread of communism. These plans successfully stopped the spread of Communism in Europe.
What are the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan.
World War II started when Hitler invaded this nation.
What is Poland?
The document that effectively ended WW I and left the Germans angry and desirous of rebuilding and revenge.
What is The Treaty of Versailles?
a camp where prisoners or persecuted minorities are forcibly confined, usually under harsh conditions
What is a Concentration Camp?
Is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
In 1948, the Soviet Union announced that it was going to blockade Berlin to prevent the other allies from reaching their territories by roads. The US wanted to avoid war, so they did not want to send troops. This was their response instead.
A surprise, preemptive military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States
What is Pearl Harbor?
The rise of this style of rule in the face of economic and social strife in Europe after WWI contributed to the path toward WW II.
What is totalitarianism?
the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people
What is anti-Semitism?
What is economics?