World War I
Revolutions and Change
The Interwar Years in Europe
World War II
The Cold War
100
This region was known as the "Powder Keg" of Europe.
What are the Balkans?
100
This group of Communist revolutionaries led the Russian revolution.
What are Bolsheviks?
100
This was the name for German fascism.
What is Nazism?
100
World War II began with the German invasion of this country.
What is Poland?
100
This was Winston Churchill's metaphor for the division between Eastern and Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
200
Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire belonged to this defensive group.
What is the Triple Alliance?
200
This is the complete control of the government over citizens' public and private lives.
What is totalitarianism?
200
This worldwide problem exacerbated Germany's difficulties.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The U.S. responded to Japanese aggression in mid-1941 by taking this action.
What is cutting off Japan's oil supplies?
200
This group of youths attacked academics and intellectuals in China's Cultural Revolution
What are Red Guards?
300
This strategy was supposed to help Germany avoid a two-front war.
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
300
These three events contributed to dissatisfaction with Czar Nicholas II's rule.
What are Bloody Sunday, the Russo-Japanese War, and World War I?
300
This was Hitler's goal of expanding German territory for its increasing population.
What is lebensraum?
300
This was the turning point in the Pacific Theater campaign.
What is the Battle of Midway?
300
This geopolitical theory explains U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
What is domino theory?
400
This term refers to when a nation devotes all of its resources to fighting an armed conflict.
What is total war?
400
This event sparked a civil war between Chinese Nationalists and Communists.
What is the Shanghai Massacre?
400
While fascism and communism both promoted a one-party system, disregard for individual rights, and supremacy of the state, they DIFFERED in this area.
What is a classless society?
400
This event showed that Germany's military strategy was doing exactly the opposite of what it had always tried to do.
What is Operation Barbarossa?
400
This term describes nations that were not allied with the Soviets or the Americans.
What are third world countries (or non-aligned nations)?
500
This agreement ended the war between Russia and Germany.
What is the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk?
500
This was responsible for increase in the Middle East's geopolitical value in the early 20th century.
What is the discovery of oil?
500
Although not a fascist power, this nation shared Germany and Italy's belief in aggressively conquering its neighbors.
What is Japan?
500
These two countries, on opposite sides in WWII, targeted specific ethnic and racial groups and put them into prison camps.
What are Germany and the United States?
500
This policy explains why the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
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