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What did the war become once the participating countries began devoting al of their resources to the war efforts?
Total War
What were the Fourteen Points?
A plan for the postwar world.
Who was forced to assume the sole responsibility for the war under the Treaty of Versailles?
Germany
Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I?
Kaiser Wilhelm II
From which country did Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia gain independence?
Austria-Hungary
What is the policy for glorifying power and keeping an army prepared for war?
Militarism
What action on November 11, 1918, brought World War I to an end?
An armistice was signed.
After World War I, most European nations had what type of government, if only temporarily?
Democratic
What were Soviets under Russia’s provisional government?
Local councils
What term was used to identify the Alliance of Germany, Italy, and Japan?
Axis Powers
Who led the famous protest known as the Salt March?
Mohandis K. Ghandi
Who were the Bolsheviks?
Radical Russian Marxist revolutionaries
Which German political party sought to overturn the Treaty of Versailles and combat communism?
Nazi
Il Duce was the title of which the following leaders?
Benito Mussolini
What event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
The stock market crash of 1929.
What was the purpose of the Soviet state’s Five-Year plans?
Economic development
Whose theory of relativity replaced Newton’s comforting belief in a world run by absolute laws of motion and gravity?
Albert Einstein
Which country did Germany conquer in 1939?
Poland
What event occurred on the day described as “a date that will live in infamy”?
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Which of the following battles marked the final German offensive?
Battle of the Bulge
The German blitzkrieg was a military strategy that depended on what advantage?
Surprise and overwhelming force.
Where were the atomic bombs dropped?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Which of the following was the location of a Nazi Extermination camp?
Auschwitz
Which of the following was addressed by the Nuremburg Trials?
The Holocaust
What prompted Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany?
German invasion of Poland
What was the name of the alliance by European Communist Nations in response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
In 1978, the Camp David Accords were signed by…
Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin
What caused the two Germanys to reunify?
The fall of Communism in East Germany
What was the original purpose of the internet?
Shared information about research.
What is this cartoon about?
The collapse of communism.
Which document states that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights… Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person”?
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Who became the Russian Republic’s first elected president?
Boris Yeltsin
What belief about China was the cartoon expressing?
That Communism is dead in China.
What idea was the major justification for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era?
Domino Theory
What was the purpose of the Truman Doctrine?
To support countries that rejected communism.
Under which program did Gorbachev attempt to modify the economic structure of the Soviet economy by allowing some private enterprise?
Perestroika
This cartoon was published June 7, 1989. Which of the cartoonist’s prediction about communism were accurate?
Communism did end in Poland.
During the cultural revolution, who were the “new heroes” of China?
Peasants
The dividing of India into two nations was referred to as…
The partition.
What was it called when Bosnian Serbs used violence to rid bosnia of its Muslims?
Ethnic Cleansing
In the 1940s and 1950s, what did the region described as being “behind the iron curtain” include?
Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
The Mau Mau was…
A secret society that wanted to liberate Kenya from British Rule
What was the Apartheid?
A South African separating the races.
According to the cartoon, in which was communism likely survive?
Soviet Union
What was the strategic defense initiative?
A system to protect the United States against enemy missiles.
Who is the man on the far right dressed as a doctor?
Mikhail Gorbachev
After gaining their independence, India and Pakistan fought a war over…
Kashmir
What did the Four Modernizations call for?
Progress in agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology.
What name is used for preserving the environment and conserving resources while still meeting current economic needs?
Sustainable development