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What economic system was used by the United States and the Soviet Union (Russia) during the Cold War?

Capitalism and Communism

100

What event started World War I?

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

100

What alliance included Germany, Italy, and Japan?

Axis Powers

100

What is it called when a country gives in to aggressive demands to avoid conflict

Appeasement 

100

What is Pan-Africanism

People of African descent around the world should work together and support each other. Some people think it also means returning to Africa.

200

What 2 wars were fought in Asia during the Cold War?

Korea and Vietnam War

200

What type of warfare used trenches and led to stalemates on the Western Front?

Trench Warfare

200

What was the conflict called between the Nationalists and Communists in China?

Chinese Civil War

200

What were the laws that stripped German Jews of citizenship called?

The Nuremberg Laws

200

What was Mao’s program to rapidly industrialize China called?

The Great Leap Forward 

300

What crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war in 1962?

Cuban Missile Crisis 

300

What treaty officially ended World War I?

The Treaty of Versailles

300

What event caused the United States to enter World War II?

The attack on Attack on Pearl Harbor

300

What was the name of Germany’s fast attack strategy?

Blitzkrieg

300

What were the four MAIN causes of World War I?

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism

400

What was the Iron Curtain?

The division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe

400

What was the “no man’s land” during World War I?

Area between trenches

400

What strategy did the United States use in the Pacific to get closer to Japan?

Island Hopping

400

What U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism?

Containment 

400

What is the Berlin Airlift?

Allies flew supplies over Soviet territory and delivered them to that part of the city of Berlin.

500

What was one major effect of the Great Leap Forward?

Widespread famine and millions of deaths

500

Which U.S. president led America during World War I?

Woodrow Wilson

500

What is the difference between NATO and the Warsaw Pact?

  • NATO was made up of the United States, Canada, and Western European democratic countries.
  • The Warsaw Pact was made up of the Soviet Union and communist countries in Eastern Europe.
500

What is Hyperinflation?

The rapid increasing of prices

500

What is détente?

Reduced tensions between the United States and Soviet Union