World War I
This new type of warfare was used during World War I.
What is trench warfare?
Prior to the revolution, Russia had this type of government.
What is monarchy/autocracy?
The poor economy in many nations led to the rise of this during the 1920s.
What totalitarian governments?
These were the TWO competing beliefs during the Cold War.
What are capitalism and communism/socialism?
An attempt to avoid conflict by meeting the demands of an aggressor.
What is appeasement?
The need to protect far away colonies helped link these TWO MAIN causes of WWI.
What are imperialism and militarism?
This type of economic system allows citizens to own and control businesses and results in unequal social classes.
What is capitalism?
At the Munich Conference in 1938, Britain and France gave in to Hitler's demands for the Sudetenland based on this policy.
What is appeasement?
This is a metaphorical description of the Cold War-era division of Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
An area of a city where Jews and other "undesired" people were locked away from public view.
What are ghettos?
These were the causes of World War I.
What are militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism?
This leader was represented by Napoleon in the book Animal Farm.
Who is Josef Stalin?
Atomic bombs were dropped on these TWO Japanese cities.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Nixon expressed this idea when he said "If Indochina falls [to communism], Thailand is put in an almost impossible position. The same is true of Malaya...[and] Indonesia."
What is domino theory?
The feeling of extreme patriotism for your country.
What is nationalism?
These nations made up the Allied Powers during World War I, as well as World War II.
Who are Britain, France, Russia/Soviet Union, and the US?
This type of economy means that the government has control over the economic decisions of the country in order to ensure economic equality for the citizens.
What is communism/socialism?
The British prime minister Neville Chamberlain promoted appeasement because of these problems in Britain.
What are economic?
During the Cold War, this was the result of the US and the USSR both having enough nuclear missiles to guarantee that both countries would be destroyed if either launched an attack on the other.
What is mutually assured destruction?
In this economic system, government agencies are involved in production planning and distribution of profits.
What is socialism/communism?
As part of accepting guilt for World War I, Germany had to do these THREE things.
What is pay reparations, reduce its military and weapons, give up its colonies?
These are THREE characteristics/tactics of a totalitarian regime (government).
What are censorship,indoctrination, mass arrests, propaganda, secret police, state control of society?
This was Truman's PRIMARY rationale (reason) for dropping atomic bombs on Japan.
What is saving American lives?
During the Cold War, this never actually happened between the US and the USSR.
What is direct armed conflict?
This Cold War-era US policy offered financial and military aid to any nation that was threatened by communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?