Imperialism
The seizure of a country or territory by a stronger country
What is Imperialism?
The person who was assassinated, marking the start of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The systematic mass murder of Jews and other minorities.
What is the Holocaust?
Represented Europe’s division into mostly democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
These countries have dictatorships, no free elections, few rights, and the government has control over media, property, and businesses.
What is Soviet Communism?
Clash between the British and the Chinese over Opium
What is the Opium War?
Another name for WWI
What is The Great War?
An alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan in WWII
What are the Axis powers?
US policy by President Truman that said that the US will give aid and support to countries that reject communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
International organization that was intended to protect the members against aggression.
What is the U.N. (United Nations)?
Person that the US sent to negotiate the openings of Japan.
Who is Matthew Perry?
What is militarism?
Two cities in Japan that the US bombed after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
US assistance program that gave $12.5 billion dollars worth of food, machinery, and other materials to help rebuild Western Europe after WII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
US, Canada, and 10 Western European countries formed this defensive military alliance. “An attack on any member would be met with an armed attack by all members.”
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
Rebellion in China in which poor peasants and workers resented the special privileges granted to foreigners.
What is Boxer's Rebellion?
An alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire.
What are the Central Powers?
Type of military strategy used by Germany that involved fast-moving airplanes and tanks. AKA "lightning war"
What is Blitzkrieg?
After WII ended, this event took place for 45 years where two rival superpowers (US & USSR) competed against each other in a rivalry.
What is the Cold War?
Soviet Union saw NATO as a threat & formed this alliance with Eastern European countries to rival NATO. Included Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland and more.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
An era which marked the end of the Japanese shogun rule and promoted the modernization of Japan & opened Japan to the West.
What is the Meiji era or Meiji Restoration?
Type of warfare/military strategy used in WWI.
What is the trench warfare?
Japanese suicide pilots.
What are Kamikazes?
The loophole that the US & Allies found to combat the USSR’s blockade of West Berlin. Allies flew in about 2.3 million tons of food, fuel, medicine, & even Christmas gifts to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Meeting with 3 world leaders that resulted in the division of Germany into 4 zones, payment from USSR to Germany for losses from WWII, USSR agreement to fight against Japan, and a promise from USSR to allow free elections in Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?