World History Semester 2 Final

3 main countries in Central Powers (WW1)

Germany, Ottoman Empire & Austria-Hungary

2 main reasons US entered WW1

sinking of Lusitania & Zimmermann Note

Leader of Germany during WW1

Kaiser Wilhelm

Leader of Russia during WW1

Czar Nicholas

Losing nation forced to take responsibility for WW1 and pay for war damages

Germany

country that invented and first used poison gas during WW1

Germany

Country where the Western Front was (mostly) during both World Wars

France

Disease that killed 10's of millions of people right after WW1 ended

Spanish Influenza

Someone who seeks immediate change by any means necessary

Radical

German word for emperor

Kaiser

Treaty that Officially Ended WW1 was the Treaty of ______________

Versailles

When people apply the theory of evolution to different races of people (usually as an attempt to justify their own prejudices and discrimination)

Social Darwinism

Causes of WWI

Alliance system, militarism, imperialism, nationalism

WW1 started when an assassin from ________ shot the Archduke from _________

Serbia, Austria-Hungary

Why did the United States get officially involved into World War I

The sinking of the Lusitania and the Zimmerman note

Lenin based his form of communism on this person, known as the 'grandfather of communism'

Karl Marx

Gandhi was noted for:

A march to the sea to protest the Salt Acts, Nonviolence as a means to achieve independence, Civil disobedience

Which of the following was NOT a newly created country shortly after WWI?

Belgium

The Axis Powers in WW2 (major players) consisted of?

Germany, Italy, Japan

Eventually, the NAZI plan to settle what they referred to as the "the Jewish problem?" was called:

The Final Solution

The prime minister of Great Britain for most of WW2

Churchill

NAZI is an acronym for?

National Socialist German Workers Party

The NAZI Party was to Germany what the _________ Party was to Iraq

Baathist

Hitler was to the NAZI Party what ________ was to the Baathist Party

Saddam Hussein

The US led 1st war vs. Iraq was called Operation ___________________

Desert Storm

Jihad means ___________

Holy War

1st leader of al Qaeda

Osama bin Laden

The USSR's version of the Vietnam War was the __________________ War

Soviet-Afghan

1st leader of communist North Korea

Kim Il Sung

Name of German submarines in both world wars

U-boats

Huge, embarrassing defeat for Allies during WW1 was when they tried to attack the Ottoman Empire. This disastrous battle was...

Gallipoli

This treaty officially ended fighting along the Eastern Front during WW1

Brest-Litovsk

On Nov. 11th, 11:00 a.m., a cease-fire was declared between the Allies and the Central Powers along the Western Front in WW1. The term for 'cease-fire' is...?

Armistice

Grandfather of communism, co-authored Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx

After WW2, Germany got split in half. Name the 2 countries and the type of government they each had

West Germany had a democracy & East Germany had communism

5 countries who were considered the 5 main contributors (winners) of WW2. They are the same 5 who have the most power in the UN today

China, Russia, US, Great Britain & France

Prime minister of Great Britain for most of WW2

Churchill

After WW2, he led the communist revolution in Chine. China's fist communist leader. Responsible or killing millions of his own people.

Mao Tse-tung (Zedong)

WW2 began in the Pacific when ______ invaded _____

Japan, China

WW2 began in Europe when ____ invaded ______

Germany, Poland

What's a commonality between WW1 & WW2?

Germany lost. France, Great Britian, and US won

After WW2, Germany was split into _____ and the type of government they each had was ____.

West & East, West was democracy, east was communist

After WW2, Korea was split into 2 countries and which was communist?

North and South Korea, North was communist

Which was not communist during the Cold War? USSR, China, East Germany, West Germany

West Germany

President who authorized the use of a-bombs on Japan and in office at the start of the Korean War was

Truman

The launching of the first orbiting spacecraft was called ___ and it was launched by the ____

Sputnik, USSR

Communist leader who took over Cuba

Fidel Castro

After the Vietnam War, what country was renamed Kampuchea and led by the Khmer Rouge?

Cambodia

Khmer Rouge was led by____? Also responsible for the killing fields

Pol Pot

The ____ War was the beginning of the end of the USSR. It was their version of Vietnam

Soviet-Afghan

During the Soviet-Afghan, the US supported the 'freedom fighters' or the _____

Mujahedeen

Many of the Muahedeen would become involved in ____, a borderless Islamic extremist group responsible for 9/11

Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda was organized and led by _____ who the US killed

Osama Bin Laden

Date the World Trade Centers were crashed into

September 11th 2001

After 9/11 when Afghanistan refused to turn over the leader of al Qaeda we went to war with _____

The Taliban

Last communist leader of the Soviet Union

Gorbachev

US's main alliance during the Cold War (and today)

NATO

Kristallnacht

German for Night of Broken Glass

Event noted for the murder of 6,000,000 Jews and millions of other by the NAZI's in WW2

Holocaust

Terrorist German secret police

Gestapo

DMZ stands for

Demilitarized zone

WMD stands for and 3 types

Weapon Mass Destruction. Nuclear, Biological, Chemical

Soviet leader who during WW2 created a famine, killing hos own people

Stalin

2 main superpowers that emerged after WW2 and who engaged in the Cold War were ___ & ____

USSR, US

NATO

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

RAF

Royal Air Force

WMD

Weapons of Mass Destruction

USSR

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

DMZ

De-Militarized Zone

FDR

Franklin D. Roosevelt, president during the Great Depression and most of WWII

JFK

John F. Kennedy

Kim Il Sung

First communist leader of North Korea

Kim Jung Un

Current (communist) leader of North Korea, grandson of Kim Il Sung

McCarthy

Politician during the cold war, accused many people of being communist and ruined their careers and reputation

Krushchev

Last communist leader of the Soviet Union

bin Laden

Organizer, leader, and creator of al Qaeda

Saddam Hussein

1990 dicator of Iraq- not a religious leader- ordered the invasion of Iraq's neighbor, Kwwait

Killing Fields

Sites in Cambodia where millions were killed by the Khmer Rouge (genocide)

Pol Pot and Khmer Rogue

Leader of Khmer Rogue, Communist party of Kampuchea

Treaty of Versailles

Official ending of WWI

Newly Created Countries after WWI

Czechoslovakia, Poland, Turkey

14 Points of Peace

Introduced by Wilson, ideas of free trade, open agreements, democracy, self determination, no secret alliances, created League of Nations. Created to avoid future world wars

Clemenceau

Leader of France WWI

Lloyd-George

Leader of Britain WWI

Orlando

Leader of Italy WWI

Four empires that collapsed as a result of WWI

Russia, Germany, Ottoman empire, Austria Hungary

Armenians (genocide)

Mass murder in WWI by the Ottoman Empire

Hitler

German soldier, political leader, chancellor, and eventually dictator. Organized the holocaust

Mein Kamof

Book wrtiten by Hilter, thoughts about communism and Jews/ what he would do in power (means my struggle)

Mussolini

Leader of Italy (WWII) promised to revive economy and rebuild its armed forces (fascist)

Churchill

Prime Minister of Great Britain (WWII)

Hiroshima

First city the US dropped an A-Bomb on

Nagasaki

Second city the US dropped an A-Bomb on

Manhattan Project

Code name for dropping the first atomic bomb during WWII

Final Solution

Code name for the Holocaust (taking out all Jews)

V-E Day

Victory in Europe Day, ended WWII in Europe

V-J Day

Victory in Japan Day, day Japan surrendered ending WWII in the Pacific

Truman Doctrine

United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces

Domino Theory

if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect

Appeasement/ Chamberlain

Developed by Chamberlain, policy of making political or material concessions to an enemy power in order to avoid conflict