The colony known as Britain's "jewel in the crown."
What is India?
100
The Treaty of Versailles made postwar Germany feel this way.
What is bitter?
100
This man led India to peaceful independence from Britain.
Who is Gandhi?
100
Define the war tactic of blitzkrieg.
What is "lightning war," or moving quickly to surprise one's enemy?
100
This theory stated that once one country fell to Communism, the surrounding countries would also fall, leading to a worldwide spread of Communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
200
Britain took control of this waterway in order to control trade from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.
What is the Suez Canal?
200
Where the Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated and what this assassination caused.
What is Sarajevo (Bosnia) and the beginning of World War I?
200
This man led a totalitarian Soviet Union through WWII and actually is responsible for more deaths than Hitler (through actions like the Great Purge).
Who is Stalin?
200
The "day that will live in infamy," according to FDR.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
200
This military alliance between the USSR (Soviet Union) and several Eastern European countries stood against the US throughout the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
The name of the system where European powers took care of their colonies' needs but gave them no rights.
What is Paternalism?
300
This German plan called for a quick defeat of France to the west and then a focus on Russia in the east (a two-front war).
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
300
This Russian was the first leader of the USSR and did not use his birth name.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
The euphemism Hitler used to describe his plans for killing all the Jews.
What is the Final Solution?
300
This policy, spearheaded by Nixon, sought to ease Cold War tensions between the US and Soviet Union.
What is detente?
400
The purpose of the Berlin Conference.
What is to divide up Africa among European powers?
400
Placing all one's country's resources towards the war effort is called...
What is total war?
400
The revolutionary group that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II in the 1917 Revolution.
Who are the Bolsheviks?
400
The Allied Powers? The Axis Powers?
Who are Britain, USSR, US for Allies and Germany, Italy, Japan for Axis?
400
The Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine both gave (BLANK) to damaged or threatened countries in a bid to combat Soviet influence.
What is aid (economic and military)?
500
This war was fought over land near the Black Sea and access to the Mediterranean for the Russians.
What is the Crimean War?
500
This policy glorifies power and keeps a standing army ready for war.
What is militarism?
500
This man was the Communist leader of China and won a 20 year civil war against nationalist forces.
Who is Mao Zedong?
500
The political movement that promotes an extreme form of nationalism, a denial of individual rights, and a dictatorial one-party rule (ex. Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy).
What is Fascism?
500
Mao's plan for a drastic increase in Chinese communes, it was a complete failure that ended in famine and the starvation of about 20 million people.