WWI and Russian Revolution
The name for required service in a nations military. Usually at least one year for all men aged 18-45.
What is Conscription?
This method of government is based around all-encompassing, authoritarian regimes that subordinate the individual to the state.
What is Totalitarianism?
This Eastern Bloc alliance was created in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Under Stalin, the USSR saw massive growth in this sector (as opposed to consumer goods).
What is heavy industry?
Stick it to the Man! This 1960s movement was centered around anti-war, anti-authority, and anti-conformity. Oh and who could forget the Rock n Roll.
What is Counter Culture?
This infamous diplomatic note was intercepted by the British and sent to the Americans causing them to join World War I on the side of the Entente.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
This foreign policy of just giving Hitler what he wants in the hope that he would eventually stop didn't work out so good.
What is appeasement?
This term first originated in a Winston Churchill speech in 1946. It relates to the heavily guarded border and dividing line between the West and East in Europe.
What is the "Iron Curtain"?
Besides Russians the Soviet Union was made up of these ethnic groups (name at least one).
What are Byelorussians, Ukrainians, Turkic peoples, Muslims, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, etc.?
This famous civil rights leader led the March on Washington, extensively advocated for racial equality, and was assassinated in 1968.
Who is Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.?
The Germans sent this man on a sealed train to Russia to sow discontent. Their plan might have worked a little to well though, he later became the leader of the country.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This battlefield tactic of moving fast and use of armor, planes, and large amounts of firepower in conjunction.
What is Blitzkrieg?
This is often called the greatest foreign aid program in human history. It saw millions of dollars from the United States flow into Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Soviet leader attempted to reverse many of Stalin's most destructive policies and hoped for "peaceful co-existence" with the West.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
In 1965, President Johnson makes the decision to send ground troops to this country to curb the growing communist influence and resistance movement.
What is (South) Vietnam?
This peace treaty ended World War I and created the League of Nations.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
This book was authored by Hitler and mostly contains rabid anti-Semitism, anti-communism, and extreme German nationalism.
What is Mein Kampf?
This is the original name of the European Union. It was founded by six western European countries and was more focused on economics the political integration at the time.
What is the European Economic Community?
These two policies under Mikhail Gorbachev were intended to reform and revitalize the Soviet Union. Instead they led it its ultimate dissolution.
What are Perestroika and Glasnost?
This US president was famous for his alliance with Evangelicals, cutting taxes and social welfare, and increasing military spending.
Who is Reagan?
This major economic event happened on October 24, 1929.
What is Black Tuesday (US Stock Market Crash)?
This order from Stalin himself was also a rallying cry for the Soviet Union in 1941-1942. It speaks to the desperation of the Red Army attempting to hold back Wehrmacht advances.
What is "No Step Back" or "Not One Step Back"?
This German Chancellor was successful in reunifying Germany and dealing with the various economic problems of reunification.
Who is Helmut Kohl?
The Soviet Union invaded this country in the 1980s. It didn't go so well once the United States started providing them with military hardware.
What is Afghanistan?
This political maneuver utilized by Richard Nixon saw the American South flip from being solidly democratic to solidly republican by the end of 1970s.
What is the "Southern Strategy"?