Vocab #1
What is a truce?
agreement to stop fighting
What is the right to vote?
Suffrage
Why was World War one different from past wars? 2 big differences (hint: world and inventions)
the whole world was mainly fighting and new weapons like machine guns, submarines, airplanes, poison gas, tanks
Who was the dictator of Germany? double if you can say what Germans called him
Adolf Hitler der fuhrer
What was the Soviet Union trying to spread and the U.S. trying to stop? double if you can tell me what it is
Communism- system where government owns all property and resources
What is an arms race?
build up of weapons of mass destruction
Why was the 1920's called the roaring twenties?
because people were spending a lot of money on a lot of new inventions and having a good time
How did World War 1 start?
Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated
How did World War 2 start?
Germany attacked Poland
How was the Cold War mainly fought?
ideas, money, words, fighting between two countries, arms race, space race
What is mass production?
making a large number of something quickly
What was the cause of the Great Depression? How did the U.S. get out of it? Double points
stock market crash, then dustbowl, loss of jobs, and people owing money
The government created jobs for people
Did the U.S. enter the war right away? Why or why not?
No, because it was happening in Europe and they did not think it was their business plus they were trying to make money off selling weapons
Did the U.S. enter the war right away? Why/ what was the reason or why not?
they saw the war was happening in Europe and thought it was their business
they did not enter until the attack on Pearl Harbor
What are some of the wars fought during the Cold War?
Korean War and Vietnam War
Someone who is writer who dug up dirt about dangerous working conditions and dishonest politicians are
muckrakers
movement to create equal rights for all but mainly black people
League of Nations
Name all 3 Axis powers
Germany, Italy, and Japan
What country was split in half and who controlled the East and West? double points
Germany - East Germany controlled by Soviet Union, West Germany by U.S.
What is internment?
isolation and confinement of people during a war
they peacefully protested which led to change
Who got blamed for the war and what was the treaty called? double points
Germany and Treaty of Versailles
What was one thing that was scary about World War 2? (many answers maybe given)
Holocaust, millions of civilians killed, atomic bombs, all out war, how a whole country followed one man
What crisis almost ended the world/ started world war 3?
Cuban Missile Crisis