WWi, Russian revolution, india and turkey, WWii, Cold war terms

World War I ended at 11:00 a.m. on November 11, 1918; "cease-fire”

Armistice

during 1930, Mahatma Gandhi led a 240 mile nonviolent, civil disobedient march to protest against British laws in India

Salt march

Nazi Germany's mechanized (tanks, planes) military strategy during World War II; "lighting war”

Blitzkrieg

during World War II, this was alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan

Axis Powers

war hero for the Ottoman Empire during World War I, who became the President of Turker during the 1920s, and supported western reforms, including women's rights, education, industrialization, and fashion

Mustafa Kemal

following Russia's October Revolution and Civil War, this union of fifteen communist republics was formed under Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks and eximed
from 1922 through the Cold War and 1991

Soviet Union

following World War II, Joseph Stalin installed communist-dictatorship governments in Eastern Europe, which signaled the start of the Cold War

iron curtain

during World War II, this was alliance between Great Britain, Soviet Union, China, and the United States

Allied powers

during World War I, this alliance was made-up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire

Central powers

following its victory at Midway, this was the U.S. strategy during World War II in the Pacific; invade and capture islands controlled by Japan

Island Hopping

during World War I, this side was made-up of France, Great Britain, Russia, Serbia, Italy, and the United States

Allied Alliance

leader of India's movement for independence through a strategy of noaviolent civil disobedience during the 1920s through 1940s

Mahatma Gandhi

major cause of World War I since countries agreed to protect one another

System of alliances

the last leader of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, who supported reforms like Glasnost and Perestroika, which helped to end Soviet totalitarianism and the Cold War

Mikhail Gorbachev

Germany's invasion of August of 1914: defeat France quickly in the West then focus on Russia in the East

Schlieflen Plan

during most of World War I on the Westem Front, neither had an advantage due to trench warfare and the technology of the war

Stalemate

British Prime Minister during World War II who inspired the British people to fight on; "We Shall Never surrender”

Winston churchill

Russia's last Czar; he ruled Russia during World War I but was forced to abdicate his throne as a result of Russia's February Revolution of 1917; later killed with his Romanov family

Nicholas II

British passenger liner sunk by a German u-boat during May of 1915, during which 128 Americans were killed; represented Germany's unrestricted submarine warfare policy during World War l

Lusitania

Germany's invasion of this country occurred on September 1, 1939, and marked the beginning of World War Il in Europe

Poland

Russian "holy man"(?) whose influence over Russia's a monarchy was symbolic of Russia' problems before the Russian Revolution, and also led to his murder in 1916

Gregory Rasputin

following the use of the atomic bombs against Japan in August, Japan officially surrendered on September 2, 1945; "Victory against Japan"

VJ day

the deliberate attempt to destroy a group of people for their religion or ethnicity; during World War II, Nazi Germany's "Final Solution" destroved over six million of Burope's Jewish population during the Holocaust

Genocide

Germany's Kaiser, or Emperor, during World War I who was forced to abdicate the throne during November of 1918

Wilhelm II

the glorification of war, was a cause of World War I since the European powers had been locked in an arms race

Militarism

following World War 1, the Ottoman Empire was dissolved and became this country

Turkey

President Harry Truman decided not to invade Japan, but instead uses the atomic bomb against this Japanese city on August 6, 1945

Hiroshima

Germany's fascist dictator whose invasion of Poland began World War Il in Europe during 1939; responsible for the Holocaust

Adolf Hitler

name given to the day when the Allies invaded German-Occupied France during World War II on June 6, 1944

D- Day

name of Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II, which began during June of 1942

Operation Barbarossa

totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union after Lenin; responsible for the Great Purge and a severe famine during the 1930s and led the Soviet Union through World War II

Joseph Stalin

U.S. President during World War II, who died weeks before the war ended in Europe:

Franklin Roosevelt

Italy's fascist dictator who rose to power during the 1920s, and vas allied with Hitter during World War II; killed by the italian people during April of 1945

Benito Mussolini

this Russian Revolution resulted in the Bolsheviks coming to power during 1917, and Russia's eventual withdrawal from World War I

October Revolution

heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne whose assassination on June 28, 1914, sparked the beginning of World War I during the summer of 1914

Archduke franz Ferdinand

the peace agreement that officially ended World War I and established the League of Nations; punished Germany, never raified by the US, and failed to resolve the causes of World War I

Treaty of Versailles

built by the communist government of Fast Germany, it was a key symbol of the Cold War and divided the people of Berlin between 1961 and 1989

Berlin Wall

during the spring of 1989, thousands of people in China protested for reforms, including democracy; violently ended by China's totalitarian goverment

Tiananmen Square

following Germany's official surrender on May 8, 1945; "Victory in Europe"

VE Day

between September of 1940 and June of 1941, Germany bombed British cities during the London Blitz, ultimately, the British air force defeated Germany' air force and Hitler never invaded Great Britain

battle of Britain

Japan attacked this U.S. naval base on December 7, 1941, which brought the U.S. into World War II; "a date which will live in infamy"

Pearl harbor

leader of Russia's Bolsheviks (communists) who overthrew Russia's Provisional Government during October of 1917

Vladimir Lenin

the United States policy throughout the Cold War, which focused on preventing the spread of the communism during the late-1940s through early 1990s

Containment

the period after World War II through the early-1990s, when the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in an economic, military, scientific, and athletic rivalry

Cold war

location of the Soviet victory against German forces during the winter of 1942 and 1943; tuming point of World War Il on the Easten Front

Stalingrad