Unit 6
What is communism? What is it's goal?
Command Economy = GOVT determines what is produced and how much
Replace competition w/ COOPERATION
GOVT redistributes wealth to ensure equality through taxation
What was the spark that started WWI?
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What event shows appeasement during WWII?
Munich Conference
What is NATO? What is the Warsaw Pact?
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization (N.A.T.O), collective defense of its members against soviet/communist aggression
Warsaw Pact - Soviet response to N.A.T.O, Created a forced alliance with “satellite states” of E. Europe to deter “Western” capitalist expansion
What two ways did Gandhi use nonviolence to protest? Bonus points if you can name which country he was protesting against.
Civil Disobedience and Passive Resistance
Britain
What were labor unions? What were their goals?
Organizations that people voluntarily joined to fight for better working conditions
Goals: Better working conditions, better pay, shorter working hours
Name the 4 MAIN causes of WWI.
Militarism: aggressive military preparedness
Alliances: entangling alliances pull various nations into conflict
Imperialism: competition over colonies
Nationalism: pride and devotion in one’s national identity
What was the event that started WWII?
(DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN TELL ME WHAT WAS BROKEN WITH THIS EVENT)
Invasion of Poland
Non-Aggression Pact with Russia and Germany
What was the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. strategy to STOP the spread of Communism providing ECONOMIC AID to help resist spread of Communism
Which African country had to violently achieve independence from their mother country?
Kenya
What is imperialism?
A policy of extending a nation’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force over another nation
Why did the USA get involved in WWI?
Zimmerman Telegram
(NOT Sinking of Lusitania)
Which battle involved the Germans using Luftwaffe air power and Blitzkrieg tactics to try to break through enemy defenses in London?
Battle of Britain
Why was there distrust between US and USSR during the Cold War?
Each side thought they had a stockpile of nuclear bombs, making each side stockpile more nuclear bombs to be more powerful than the other side
Who was the president of Egypt during Decolonization? What event was he involved with?
Gamal Abdul Nasser; Suez Canal Crisis
What did the Berlin Conference do?
Divided up control of Africa among European nations. No African nations were invited
Name all allied (4) powers and central (3) powers.
Allied Powers: Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy
Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire
Who did the United States attack after the attack at Pearl Harbor? What was the event called?
Japan; Battle of Midway
Through the Cultural Revolution, how did Mao Zedong eliminate threats to the Communist Party? (Need TWO answers)
Little Red Book and the Red Guard
What is the European Union (EU)?
organization that encourages cooperation among European nations on laws, trade and security
Name 5 parts of EMPIRE. (motivations for European imperialism)
Economic: exploitation of natural resources, need for cheap labor, desire for new markets
Mercantilism: colonies exist only to benefit the “mother country” economically
Political: European powers seek to gain advantage over rivals with colonies & nationalism
Ideological: Social Darwinism, racism
Religion: religion used as justification of European imperialism
Exploration: map new territories for new trade routes & new territories with natural resources
Name at least three parts of the Treaty of Versailles.
(DOUBLE POINTS TO WHOEVER GUESSES ALL 6 MAJOR PARTS)
War Guilt Clause (Germany takes blame for WWI)
Germany loses all of their military
Germany loses all of their territory
German has to pay reparations
Created the League of Nations
Created the Mandate system
What is Kristallnacht? Why bigger event was this event a part of?
Night of broken glass where Germans Destroyed Jewish private property; was a part of the Holocaust
What is Glasnost and Perestrokia?
P - Introduce capitalist policies to jumpstart USSR economy
G- Introduce political openness to discuss problems and develop solutions for the USSR
What is terrorism? Name two acts of terrorism.
The use of violence to achieve political or ideological goals
Munich Olympics, US Embassy Bombings in Beruit and Nairobi, Lockerbie Bombing, 9/11, 2011 Breivik Shootings