WWI
The immediate cause for WWI was the assassination of this man.
Who is Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
This country’s attack on Pearl Harbor in the US prompted the US to join the war.
What is Japan?
Fascism is placed here on the political spectrum.
What is the extreme left?
A war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved is called this.
What is a Proxy War?
This evil dictator rose to power in the late 1930’s and performed mass genocides in Germany.
Who is Adolf Hitler?
This document’s signing ended the war and blamed Germany for practically everything.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
The newly formed “German Empire” took this name during the War.
What is the Third Reich?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt created these “Three R’s” in the US in an attempt to help boost the economy.
What are relief, recovery, and reform?
The satellite that started the arms race between the US and USSR is named this.
What is Sputnik?
Fascism was created in Italy by this stone-faced dictator.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
Germany was forced to pay these following WWI, special taxes on a country to pay for mass damages.
What are reparations?
The Allies, primarily the US, used this military strategy in which they attacked the weakest Japan-controlled islands.
What is the Island Hopping?
This man created the new ideas involved in Keynesian economics, which was reflected in further decisions by FDR.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This organization, also known as NATO, included countries such as the UK, US, and France and rivaled the Eastern Warsaw Pact.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This US President instituted the idea of Dollar Diplomacy to exploit Latin American wealth.
Who is William Taft?
The Ottomans were accused of killing people just for being members of the Christian faith in this notorious mass killing.
What is the Armenian Genocide?
This city in Spain was a testing ground for new German weapons, later it became the inspiration for a Picasso artwork of the same name.
What is Guernica?
This man instituted a Five Year Plan that attempted to transform the USSR into an industrial power.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
The divide between the Communist Bloc of the East and the Western Powers was called this in a famous Winston Churchill speech.
What is the “Iron Curtain”?
This man founded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and led what is now known as the Long March.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Name two of these four political leaders who came to be known as the big four, and fought it out in the Paris Peace Conference.
Who is Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, George Clemenceau, and Vittorio Orlando?
This German word, translated as “Living Space”, was used by Hitler to describe the colonialism of the Third Reich.
What is Lebensraum?
This political document stated that European countries could no longer interfere with the affairs of the American countries.
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
This structure was put up to keep East German citizens from escaping into the more democratic West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This man became the final leader of the USSR and had a huge role in the end of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?