World War I
This peacekeeping organization was created as a part of the Fourteen Points.
What is The League of Nations?
The term for the global economic downturn that occured between WWI and WWII.
What is the great depression?
The term for the alliance that included Germany and, Itay, and Japan.
What is the Axis?
This was the largest of the concentration camps in Europe.
What is Auschwitz?
Another name for Lightning War.
Blitzkrieg.
This term refers to the communist party in Russia. They carried out a revolution in 1917.
What is "Bolsheviks?"
What is "The Fourteen Points?"
This term refers to the policy that accepts demands in order to avoid a bigger conflict.
The complete destruction of one of China's largest Cities by the Japanese. Mass atrocities were committed against the citizens.
The Rape of Nanking
The zone between the trenches during World War I, which led to a stalemate.
What is No Man's Land?
Two reasons why America joined WWI
The sinking of the Lusitania
The Zimmerman Telegram.
The term for Stalin's plan to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union.
What is "Five Year Plan?"
This was a strategy used in the Pacific Campaign.
What is island Hopping?
The Cambodian genocide was carried out by this group.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
The term used for a night of organized violence against the Jewish people in Germany ("Night of Broken Glass").
What is Kristallnacht?
What are the MAIN reasons for WWII
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
New economic ideas that rejected laissez-faire capitalism.
Keynesian Economics
Hitler threw everything he had at taking over this Soviet Industrial City.
Stalingrad
The term for the Ukrainian famine created by the Soviets in the 1930s that resulted in millions of deaths.
What is the Holodomor?
1917 statement by the British, said Palestine should be permanent home for Jews of Europe
The Balfour Declaration
Name THREE conditions of The Treaty of Versailles.
Germany was forced to give up its colonies.
War Guilt Clause.
Billions of reparations to be paid.
Demilitarized Rhineland between Germany and France.
German Military Reductions.
Name three countries that turned to fascism. Include their leader's name.
Hitler - Germany
Mussolini - Italy
Franco - Spain
Tojo - Japan
Name three aspects of Total War.
Economics: restructuring of economy to a wartime economy (ex. Changes in factory production)
Society: women working jobs previously held by men, increased production of propaganda to increase nationalism
Rationing: saving food/resources for soldiers
Political: temporary changes to law (ex. Sedition Acts)
Conscription: drafting of citizens for fighting
The Rwandan Genocide had two groups.
The ____ were the majority who committed the genocide.
The ____ were the minority who were forced to run for their lives.
Hutus
Tutsis
Name four groups of people targeted by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
Jewish People
Black people in Germany
civilians (non-Jewish) accused of disobedience, resistance, or partisan activity
gay men, bisexual men, and other men accused of homosexuality in Germany
Jehovah’s Witnesses
people with disabilities
Poles
political opponents and dissenters in Germany
Roma and other people derogatorily labeled as “Gypsies”
social outsiders in Germany derogatorily labeled as “asocials” or “professional criminals”
Soviet Prisoners of War
Name FOUR new weapons used during WWI
Grenades
Tanks
Trench Mortars
Submarines
Airplanes
Gas Attacks
In FDR's New Deal what were the 3 R's that the plan promoted?
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Name Three battles of WWII
1941 Siege of Leningrad
1941 Pearl Harbor
1942 Battle of El Alamein
1942 Battle of Stalingrad
1942 Battle of the Coral Sea
1942 Battle of Midway Island
1944 D-Day
1944 Battle of the Bulge
1943 Battle of Kursk
Name FOUR atrocities of the 20th century
The Holocaust
The Armenian Genocide
The Holodamor in the Ukrane
Firebombing in Dresden or Tokyo
Rwanda Genocide
Sudan
The Rape of Nanking
Before Hitler invaded Poland he took several smaller territories. Name two.
The Rhineland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
The Sudatenland