Surprise
Nickname given to the period where European countries laid claim to most of the continent of Africa to expand their colonies and acquire natural resources.
Scramble for Africa
The leader of the Fascist Party in Italy
Benito Mussolini
December 7th, 1941 brought the U.S. into WWII. What happened on this date?
Attack at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese
The Cold War was between which two world superpowers? When did it take place?
U.S. and the Soviet Union; After WWII-1991, when the Soviet Union fell.
Austria's archduke who was assassinated on June 28, 1914
Franz Ferdinand
T/F: The United States never joined the League of Nations
True. Though Woodrow Wilson wanted the U.S. to join, when the Republicans were voted in in a landslide after WWI, they opposed measures to bring the U.S. into the League of Nations.
What Russian communist leader instituted a system of purges, eliminating all whom he considered a threat to his regime?
Josef Stalin
Nickname for the German style of "lightning war" where they would overwhelm their opponents with force.
Blitzkrieg
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the U.S. development of...
The Atom Bomb
Term for a "cease-fire"
Armistice
The last Czar of Russia who was ousted by the communists.
Nicholas II
Wrote a book titled "My Struggle".
Who wrote it and what is the book called in its native language?
Hitler; Mein Kampf
German word meaning political unification of Germany and Austria
Term for the metaphorical wall of separation between the free West and communist East that fell after WWII. What is the term? Who coined it?
The Iron Curtain; Winston Churchill
Term that denotes payment for war damages. Germany was forced to pay these to the Allied nations following WWI.
Reparations.
Period of time in the late 1800-early 1900s where significant technological advances led to mass urbanization, a shift to factory work, and the mass production of goods.
Industrial Revolution
Communist dictator of China responsible for mass deaths. Responsible for initiatives such as the Great Leap Forward.
Mao Zedong
Codenamed Operation Overlord; one of the largest amphibious assaults in history. The Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944.
D-Day
The physical symbol of Soviet oppression and the separation between the East and the West during the Cold War.
Berlin Wall
Following WWI, hyperinflation caused the collapse of the __________. This helped set the stage for WWII as it further impoverished the nation of Germany.
The German Mark
The ridiculous cycle of loans and payments circulating between the U.S., the Allied nations, and Germany following WWI. One of the contributing factors to the Great Depression.
Post-War Debt Cycle
Fidel Castro
Area of Czechoslovakia that was given to Hitler by Neville Chamberlain during the Munich agreement as a means of appeasement.
Sudetenland
One of the "hottest" moments in the Cold War was in the 1960s when the Soviet Union partnered with communist Cuba to supply them with secret armaments. This event was called...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Name of the most important treaty following WWI. This treaty included the infamous "war-guilt clause" that made Germany take responsibility for WWI and saddled them with heavy financial penalties.
Treaty of Versailles