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?
German strategy of rapidly bombing a place to overwhelm it
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; used by Britain and France to satisfy Hitler
What is appeasement?
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?"
American strategy in the Pacific campaign of rapidly progressing over smaller islands to use them to get to bigger islands closer to Japan
What is island Hopping?
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
What country did most of Italy's desired territory go to after WWI?
Yugoslavia
What are the MAIN reasons for WWII
Militarism
Alliances
Imperialism
Nationalism
The idea that the government should spend more than they have to promote economic development
Keynesian Economics
What land did Hitler annex from Czechoslovakia?
Sudetenland
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
Why was Italy opposed to the Treaty of Versailles?
They received none of their desired territory from Austria-Hungary
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 term used for a night of organized violence against the Jewish people in Germany ("Night of Broken Glass").
What is Kristallnacht?
What two provinces were divided when India was partitioned?
Sindh and Punjab
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
What was the first place Hitler annexed before the start of WWII?
Austria
Name THREE atrocities of WWI
The Holocaust
Firebombing in Dresden or Tokyo
The Rape of Nanking
Before Hitler invaded Poland he took several smaller territories. Name two.
The Rhineland
Austria
Czechoslovakia
The Sudatenland