Cold War
What was the Cold War
Struggle over political differences carried out by means other than direct war
Long-Term Causes
Militarism
Imperialism
Nationalism
Japan surrendered on
September 2, 1945
What impact did the Tokugawa shogunate have on Japan?
In its efforts to close Japan off from damaging foreign influence, the Tokugawa shogunate also prohibited trade with Western nations and prevented Japanese merchants from trading abroad.
Name at least one main characteristic of humanism
Arms Race definition
Competition between countries to achieve superiority and quality of military arms
Central Powers
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Ottoman Empire
the Jews were the most targeted group of the Holocaust since Hitler hated Jews because he blamed them for losing WWI and what
Great Depression
Explain how the geography of the Indian Subcontinent contributed to the movement of people and ideas.
North mountains prevented trade by land. southern india is surrounded by water- easier trade
The greatest cultural achievements of Renaissance Rome were
science, literature and poetry, music, architecture, sculpture and painting
In 1953 - the Soviets built a
hydrogen-bomb
Allied Powers
France
Britain
Russia
Roosevelt,Churchill, & Stalin met again in when to discuss what to do with postwar Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe
February,1945
Causes of the Russian Revolution
Russia had the largest territory and population in Europe.
● Diverse Population
● Industrial development lagged and most of the country was underdeveloped
what were the social, economic, and political changes that most contributed to the rise of Florence and the ideas of Machiavelli?
In what year, Communists built a wall of concrete and barbed wire in East Berlin along its border with West Berlin.
1961
Neutral
United States
Italy
The what (March 1947) declared the U.S. would try to prevent the spread of Communism (containment)
Truman Doctrine
Leader of the Bolsheviks
Vladimir Lenin
The Catholic Church took place where?
It took place north of Rome in a city called Trent.
When was the Berlin Wall teared down ?
In 1989
Reasons the U.S. entered the war
Unrestricted submarine warfare, sinking of the Lusitania, and the Zimmerman note (Remember the Boat and the Note)
In 1955, the Soviet Union formed an opposing military alliance called the what which included the USSR and 7 eastern European nation
Warsaw Pact
who brought the Communist Party to the height of power in the soviet Union
Joseph Stalin
What three ways did d Elizabeth I avoid war?
She avoided a civil war in three ways- 1. she never married (the virgin queen) so she did not have to take the faith of her husband 2. she was tolerant of both religions 3. she instilled nationalism in both Protestants and Catholics by going to war against Spain