Revolutions
During the French Revolution, the National Convention formed the Committee of Public Safety, led by Maximilien Robespierre. This group from another historical period had a mission most like that of the Committee's mission.
What is the Gestapo?
The British took control of Burma in the mid-1800s, they did so because of this.
What is the British intended to protect their holdings in India?
This ideology did not contribute to the outbreak of World War I.
What was communism?
What was a major decision of the Yalta Conference?
What was demand for Germany's unconditional surrender?
What was Russia to permit free elections in Eastern Europe?
What was Russia entering the Asian was against Japan?
What was setting up 4 zones of occupation in Germany?
What was scheduling a meeting to create the United Nations?
The Warsaw Pact expanded the reach of the Soviet Union by giving it this.
What was justification to invade nations that tried to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact?
What was they were both motivated by citizens desiring fairness from their governments?
This was Japan's initial approach to trade with Europeans during the early 1600s.
What was to seclude themselves from outside influence?
During World War I, the Zimmerman Telegram proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico, in which Germany promised Mexico military assistance if Mexico would declare war against the United States. Germany's promises to Mexico were questionable due to this.
What is because Germany could not realistically provide Mexico with military assistance?
in 1940, following a British attack on Berlin, Hitler intensified bombing attacks on these in order to break British morale.
What are urban centers?
The war trials following World War II inspired a movement among American leaders to do this.
What was to reduce the sentences of many war criminals?
Mao's Communist Revolution in China was directly inspired by The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This is the difference between the two.
What is that Mao believed that China's revolution must begin in the agrarian sector?
What was shipping unproductive workers to the Americas as slaves?
These were the members of the Triple Alliance.
What were Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy?
German military commanders responded so slowly to the D-Day invasion at Normandy because of this.
What is they thought the landing was a diversion and the major attack was going to occur elsewhere?
After World War II, the Soviet Union and the Western democracies had differing visions for the future of Europe. The Soviet Union had this goal, which differed from the Western democracies.
What was the goal of keeping Germany permanently divided?
The Russian Revolution had this economic effect.
What was to make the U.S. spend money on "containment"?
At the end of the 19th century, European interest in establishing settlements along the coast of Africa increased because of this.
What was the Berlin Conference required European countries to occupy their claimed African territory?
This ideology did not contribute to the outbreak of both World War I and World War II.
What was the rise of fascism?
European leaders tolerated Germany's invasion and annexation of neighboring lands prior to the invasion of Poland in 1939 because of this.
What is they wanted to avoid the onset of another war?
At the Yalta Conference, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States agreed to this.
What is to divide Germany into zones of occupation?
These were the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
What were the lower classes did not feel that they were not treated fairly, the tsar did not pay attention to the needs of his people, and the Russian people distrusted the monarchy's use of Rasputin due to not knowing the true reason behind his employment?
This is the effect that British rule had on India.
What were British textiles were cheaper, land taxes made sent more Indians into poverty, cotton crops were introduced, school systems were improved which allowed British educations for Indians, and railroads, telegraph and telephone lines allowed for better transportation and communication?
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between Germany and Russia's new Bolshevik government angered many Russians because of this.
What is it ceded a large amount of territory to Germany?
This was the three-step process of change in United States foreign policy that took place during WWII.
What was isolationism (the US not wanting to interfere in EU affairs or wars. Americans still remembered WWI and the extreme number of casualties that resulted from it), neutrality (the US secretly supported its allies by sending supplies and resources but continued to avoid getting into the war, and imperial power (the US, brought into the war due to Japanese and German aggression, turned into an imperial power)?
The Nuremberg Trials following World War II affected the entire world by settling legal precedents on this issue.
What are human rights?