Vocabulary 1
This began in with the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and ruined the economy of the US and many others around the world
What is the Great Depression
This was the first city in Japan to be attacked with the atomic bomb
What is Hiroshima
The first nation to become fascist
What is Italy
This battle, fought entirely in the air, was Hitler's failed attempt to knock Great Britain out of WWII.
What is the Battle of Britain
This was put up to keep the people of East Berlin from escaping into West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall
The type of attack led by the German military to begin WWII
The term used to describe the killing of 6 million Jewish people during WWII
What is the Holocaust
This is the use of government forces to control citizen's actions or to monitor their daily lives
What is police terror
This was the code name given to the landing of Allied troops in Normandy, France in June 1944
What is D-Day
The name of the first Russian satellite in space
What is Sputnik
The name of Adolf Hitler's book
What is Mein Kampf
This was Stalin's plan to revive the economy of the Soviet Union after World War I which created unfair hardship on the peasants of Russia
What are the Five Year Plans
What is indoctrination
This battle, which was a turning point for the Russian in WWII, was fought primarily by Germany for access to oil in Asia
What is the Battle of Stalingrad
The leader of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev
Stalin's attack on his own party which saw the arrest and/or murder of thousands in the Soviet Union
What is the Great Purge
This Russian term that refers to the "openness" towards the end of the Cold War
What is glasnost
This factor of totalitarianism does not allow any religion or separate organizations and imprisons or kills any undesirable people or enemies of the state
What is Religious or Ethnic Persecution
The turning point battle in the Pacific Theater in WWII
What is the Battle of Midway
The organization that the United States turned to in order to prove that the Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba
What is the United Nations
Stalin's plan to combine all private farms and force the peasants to work communally to produce food for the factory workers of Russia
What is collectivization.
This was the official name of the German government between WWI and WWII
What is the Weimar Republic
The government control of all media and suppression of outside information
What is censorship
This was the name of the war crimes trials in Germany after WWII
What is the Nuremberg Trials
This nation was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979 and caused an economic disaster which helped bring and end to the Cold War
What is Afghanistan