WW1 PART 2 STUDY WHAP

Russo-Japanese War

The war in 1905 that led to changes in the Russian government.

The Duma

The name of the new representative assembly for Russia.

Vladimir Lenin

The man who led the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917.

Bolsheviks

The group that helped Lenin take over the Russian government.

Peace, Land, Food

The three things promised to Russian peasants during the Russian Revolution.

Tsar Nicholas II

The leader whose entire family was murdered by the Bolsheviks.

New Economic Policy (NEP)

The name of the new plan to fix the Soviet economy in 1921.

Joseph Stalin

The leader who took over the USSR after Lenin died in 1924.

Totalitarian dictators of the 1930s

Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini.

SS and Black Shirts

Examples of loyal military units for totalitarians.

Gestapo

The secret police group used by the Nazis.

The Great Purge and Night of Long Knives

Examples of murders or purges used to stay in power by totalitarians.

Concentration Camps and Gulags

Examples of prison camps for political enemies and prisoners of war.

Fascism

A political ideology characterized by nationalism and anti-communism.

The Roaring 20s

The nickname for the booming US economy in the 1920s.

Assembly Line

The production method used by Henry Ford to increase efficiency.

Credit, Assembly Line, Loans, and Speculation Buying

The main causes for overproduction in the 1920s.

Margin Buying

The reason people were able to buy many stocks and inflate prices.

Banking System

The entity that failed, causing the world's first global depression.

Keynesian Economics

The economic strategy developed to provide jobs through public works.

John Maynard Keynes

The inventor of Keynesian Economics.

Demand Side

The system type of the Keynesian economic strategy.

Autobahn, Hoover Dam, Bridges, and Roads

Examples of government-funded projects to create jobs.

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

One of the leaders who adopted Keynesian Economics.

Germany

The country that succeeded in pulling itself out of depression in the 1930s.

France

The country that took a spending and poor/unemployment aid approach.

New Deal

FDR's program designed to increase government intervention in the economy.

Social Security, Increased Taxes

Ways in which the New Deal increased government intervention.

Francisco Franco

The fascist dictator in the Spanish Civil War.

Republicans and Nationalists

The two sides during the Spanish Civil War.

Nationalists

The side supported by Germany during the Spanish Civil War.

Republicans

The side supported by the USSR during the Spanish Civil War.

Pablo Picasso

The painter who protested violence demonstrated by Nazi firebombings.

Guernica

The name of the painting by Pablo Picasso.

Axis Powers of WWII

Germany, Japan, Italy.

Allied Powers

USSR, Great Britain, France, The US.

Austria

The country that voluntarily joined Germany first in the 1938 Anschluss.

Sudetenland

The area in Czechoslovakia that was German.

Poland

The country invaded by Germany and the USSR in 1939, starting WWII in Europe.

Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact

The agreement to jointly invade Poland by Germany and the USSR.

Pan-Germanism

Hitler's desire to unite all Germans into one nation.

Munich Agreement of 1938

The agreement that allowed Hitler to have the Sudetenland in exchange for promises.

Appeasement

The term for giving an enemy what they want to avoid conflict.

Nanjing

The city where Japanese forces killed and raped Chinese civilians.

Groups Killed by Nazis during the Holocaust

Slavs, Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals.

Turning Points in the European Theatre

Battle of D-Day and Battle of Stalingrad.

Turning Point in the Pacific Theatre

Battle of Midway.

Radar and Sonar

Anglo-American inventions that helped locate Axis planes and submarines.

The United Kingdom

The country that broke the German code.

The US

The country that broke the Japanese code.

Blitzkrieg Strategy

The new German tactic of quick military movement.

Firebombing

The new strategy of bombing entire cities repeatedly.

Death Camps

Auschwitz, Chelmno, Treblinka.