AP world History

Unit 7

Italy

Turned radical right

extreme nationalism, superior complex,

Benito Mussolini took control and became a dedicator, put nationalism ideas in school teaching there children about the great leader “ll Duce

Took region they felt where inferior in the scramble for Africa they took Libya and colonized Somali-land. Ethiopia stoped there progress.

Italy upset that in the treaty of Versailles they did not receive land when they switched from central to allies.

Totalitarian

Government control all aspect of the society

Corporatism

Theory based all sector of the economy support the whole economy

Fascism

Coined by Benito Mussolini- axe with a stick show government control and power. Show Italy glorified militarism and brute force

Keynesian

Deficit spending the government spend money to create jobs and allow people to buy goods

New Deal

Relief, Recover and Reform

Relief - Help women and children

Recover- create job and bring back economy

Reform - Create rules so this does not happen again

Weimar Republic

Government that agreed to the Treaty of Versailles

German felt the Weimar government was to weak to lead Germany out of this depression

Reichstag

German Parliament building

Staged a burned of the building and blamed it on radical extremist

Aryan

Superior race in Germany

Nuremberg Law

Law that took away jew’s right and stopped allowing them to marry non-jew’s

Kristallnacht

Propaganda and law that created hostility towards jew’s arrested and destroyed jew’s buildings

Lebensraum

Living space wanting room for Germany in mien kampf

Guernica

First bombing on civilization

Spain (Inter-year wars)

Fighting between the nationalist and the loyalist the loyalist supported the the allied nation and the nationalist supported by the central power

Brazil

Considered sleeping giant

Estado Novo program limited government censorship

sided with the allies but had more beliefs with the axis contry’s

Russia (Inter-year )

Bolsheviks seized power and created the communist group

collective ownership of land- peasant made food for the urban population led to death and starvation of many different groups

-Moa would do the same thing in his five year plan and great leap forward

Russian Revolution- The new collectivized land was not work so Lenin introduced new plan

NEP-allow private ownership of land (ended when Lenin died)

Joseph Stalin Russia became USSR

5 year plan- Industrialize Russia in five years to compete with European country’s

Kolkhoz - group of peasants who joined together to farm a certain part of the land

Mexican Revolution

-Mexican peasants owned no land

-redistributed land

China (Inter-years )

China was controlled by war lord due the the Qings government system

Student where upset they did not receive land form the Treaty of Versallie

may fourth movement - Urban student protested

Communist - Moa

Nationalist -Sun Yat-sen

Nationalist party was for wealthy individuals they did the five year plan and the great leap forward

In the Chinese revolution the communist party gained control

Joined forces to fight Japan

Ottomans

Split up

Turkish Nationalist Movement

• organization beat Britain and won

India

• Did not want great Britian to rule

• Armitsar -freedom fighter protested in th sikh festival

Gandhi

• Civil disobedience

Boycotted British Goods wore only Indian homespun cotton

New Ideas

Communism

Socialism

Authoritarianism - strong central power limited society freedoms

Facism

Totalitarianism

Mandate system

League of nation put country that where in Germany and Ottomans in letter to see if they could self governance

Battle of Midway - turning point

Turning point in the Pacific war stopped japan into entering the island and defeated japan carrier strike lost a lot aircraft carriers. Happened on midway island

Battle of Kursk

Large-rest tank battle

between German and soviet union

last big attack on the soviets

Battle of Stalingrad

Sniper war decisive turning point in Eastern front

Yalta conference

Conference after the war with all main regions

Battle of the Bulge

Battle Of El Alamein

Soviet defeated most of Hitlars military

Anti-Comintern Pact

Battle Of Leningrad

Lasted three years and led to the death of millions of Soviet men and women

Lusitania

U.S submarine that was bombed by Germany and had civilians on it

D-Day

Recaptured Rome

V-E Day

Victory in Europe

Postdam conference

Final meeting between the Big three

Tojo

Leader of Japan when fighting the world war, tried to kill himself after the WW2 but we brought him back to life and put him in court.

Battle of Britain

Major air campaign waged by the German Air Force against the United Kingdom during World War II, primarily in 1940.

Luftwaffe

The aerial warfare branch of the German military during World War II, responsible for conducting air operations including bombing campaigns.

Stalingrad

A major battle between German and Soviet forces during World War II, marked by fierce fighting and significant casualties, ultimately leading to a decisive Soviet victory in 1943.

Treaty of Breu-Litovsk

A peace treaty signed in 1918 between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers during World War I, which resulted in significant territorial losses for Russia.

Mandate System

An arrangement established after World War I whereby a nation formally governed another territory on behalf of the League of Nations, with the objective of preparing it for self-governance.

Damascus

Capital of the Umayyads

Treaty of Breu-Litovsk

Deal Russia made to get out of WW1 due to internal issues

Cecil Rhodes

• British imperialist and founder of De Beers

• Wanted a railroad from Cape Town to Cairo

• connect British colonies for easier control and military movement

• Did not happen

Boer Wars

• Fought between British and Afrikaners over land

• British won and used concentration camps

• Poor conditions caused thousands of deaths, especially among Black Africans