History Final

4 main long-term causes of ww1

Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism

Gavrilo Princip

Leader of the nationalist group of the Serbian “Black Hand”; Killed Franz Ferdinand and his wife

How did America support the war effort?

trade with allies

Powder Keg of Europe

Reffering to the Balkans

Schlieffen plan

Germany’s military strategy designed to avoid a 2 front war

Triple Alliance

Germany, Austria-hungary, and Italy

Triple Entente

the United Kingdom, France and Russia

Treaty of Versailles

Peace agreement that ended ww1

Unrestricted submarine warfare

German Naval strategy that authorized u-boats to sink Merchant, passenger, enemy and neutral ships without warning

War Guilt Clause

A portion of the treaty of Versailles that had Germany take responsibility for ww1

Zimmerman note

a telegram from Germany to Mexico proposing an alliance that was intercepted by the UK which caused the US to join ww1

Bolsheviks

Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labor Party headed by Vladimir Lenin

Chinese peasants aligned themselves with…

the communists under Mao Zedong during the Chinese civil war

Five Year Plan

Stalins plan for developing the economy that lead to industrial power but no consumer goods

Great Purge

Terror campaign against Stalins perceived enemies

Holodomor

An atrificial famine on Soviet Ukraine created by Joseph Stalin

Long March

100,000 communist forces fled 6,000 miles to northern China between 1934 and 1935

Mahatma

Meaning “Great soul”; the nickname given to Mohandas K. Gandhi

Mao Zedong

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Marxists

believe in a classless society

Mohandas K. Gandhi

Indian Lawyer and political ethicist who used non-violence to lead the resistance against british Imperialism in India

Salt March

A protest lead by Gandhi against the Salt tax in which he and many others walked to the ocean to gather fresh salt for free and walked back

Strategies Encouraged by Gandhi

Mass mobilization, Civil disobedience, self reliance, non-violence, and truth

Totalitarian State

When the government has total power over the state.

Adolf Hitler

Promised Germany a better econemy

Anti-semitism

The belief that Jewish people are harming their communitys

Appeasement

The practice of giving world leaders what they want to avoid war

Areas Hitler remilitarized or expanded to before invading Poland

the Rhineland

Benito Mussolini

Fascist leader of Italy

Fascist Party

Nationalistic political beliefs made of Aristocrats, veterans, and the middle class

Nazi Party

National Socialist German Workers Party- founded by Hitler

Problems with the Treaty of Versailles

forbid remilitarization and a union between Austria and Germany

Weimar Republic

Democratic Government of Germany from 1919-1933

Why did Hitler use the Jews as scapegoats for all of germany’s problems?

to unite Germany against them and blamed them for losing ww1

“A date which will live in infamy”

December 7th 1941, when japan bombed pearl harbor"

Aushwitz

the largest and most famous concentration camp

Axis Powers

Allience between Germany, Italy, and and Japan

Battle of Midway

Naval battle in ww2

Battle of Stalingrad

Eastern front war between the Axis powers and the Soviet union

Battle of the bulge

offensive Germany campaign on the Western front

Blitzkreig

“Lightning war” a battle strategy that focuses on speed and overwhelming force

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

when America dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan ending ww2

Final Solution

The Nazi regime’s genocide against European Jews

Holocaust

the word for the genocide against European Jews

Invasion of Poland

Nazi Germany invades Poland, starting ww2

Island Hopping Campaign

American battle campaign hopping from island to island to get closer to mainland japan

Pearl Harbor

When Japan dropped a nuclear bomb on pearl harbor, Hawaii