Exam Questions

Years of World War I

1914-1918

The assassination of what archduke started WWI

Franz Ferdinand

New weapons during WWI

Tanks Machine guns, and Submarines

Ideas that are spread to influence public opinion

Propaganda

The sinking of this ship led to U.S. involvement in WWI

Lusitania

Main type of warfare used in WWI

Trench warfare

Allies of World War I

England, France, Russia, United States

The Czar of Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution

Nicholas II

The Big Three of WWI

Wilson, Lloyd George, and Clemenceau

How did the Treaty of Versailles set the stage for WWII?

It did not solve any problems that started WWI

This Russian Leaders Slogan was “Peace, Land, Bread”

Lenin

This group of Russian revolutionaries believed in immediate revolution

Bolsheviks

This event began the worldwide depression in the 1930’s

The United States stock market crash

What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws

To define who was considered a Jew

Nazis burned synagogues and destroyed Jewish businesses

Kristallnacht

What were the beliefs held by Fascists

Nations must struggle for supremacy, authoritarian, leader, and one party rules

This economic problem plagued Germany During 1918-1923

Hyperinflation

The economist system with centralized planning by the state

Command

Large farms owned and operated by a group

Collective

Stalins plan to industrialize Russia

Five Year Plan

Territory in Czechoslovakia that was the only defense against Nazi Germany

Sudetenland

This Treaty humiliated Germany

Treaty of Versailles

Considered the first fascist country

Italy

The buffer of land that was demilitarized between France and Germany after WWI

Rhineland

The Fascist leader of Spain in 1939

Franco

This fascist leader took over Germay

Hitler

This fascist leader took over Italy

Mussolini

The leader of the United States when who developed the New Deal

Roosevelt

Gave Hitler the power to ignore the constitution

The Enabling Act

Dates of WWII

1939-1945

Was a turning point and put Japan on the defensive

The Battle of Midway

Why Harry Truman authorized the dropping of the atomic bomb

Less U.S. casualties

Why the United States was considered the “arsenal of the Allied Powers”

They had factories to produce military equipment

These two countries signed the nonaggression pact in 1939

Germany and Soviet Union

WWII officially began with the invasion of what country

Poland

Date of the Pearl Harbor attack

December 7th 1941

This country was behind the attacks on Pearl Harbor

Japan

June 1944 the allies invaded Normandy in what European country

France

The Axis Powers

German,Italy, and Japan

Allied Powers

United States,Great Britain, Soviet Union, and France

The killing of and entire race of people

Genocide

The German extermination of many Jews an other non Germans thought WWII

Holocaust

This happened to Germany as a result of the Yalta Conference

Split into four occupation zones

These were held in order to try the Nazi leaders for crimes against humanity

Nuremburg Trials

The number of Nazi leaders were put on trial for their crimes against humanity

24

United States attempt at keeping communism with its existing boundaries

Containment

The military alliance the Soviet Union made with Eastern European countries

Warsaw Pact

The military alliance of the United States made with other democratic nations

NATO

This organization was created at the end of WWII to help promote peace

United Nations

Reason why Soviets built the Berlin Wall

To stop the flow of refugees to West Germany

Length of the Cuban Missile Crisis

13 days

This country put nuclear missiles in Cuba

Soviet Union

The United States president during the Cuban Missile Crisis

President Kennedy

Pulling U.S. nuclear missiles out of this country ended the Cuban Missile Crisis

Turkey

Poland and Hungary were apart of this military alliance in the 1950’s

Warsaw Pact

Thr four countries that occupied Germany after WWII

France, Great Britain, USSR(Soviet Union), and United States

Location of Most of the Warsaw Pact nations

Eastern Europe

Years of the Korean War

1950-1953

Korean War battled across this parallel line

38th

First Soviet Satellite

Sputnik

This person successfully took over Cuba

Castro

After this war, Germany was divided into two nations

WWII

The belief that communism would spread across Southeast Asia if one country fell to communism

Domino Theory

This event in 1964 escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war

Gulf of Tonkin Incident

Primary ally of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War

United States

Main reason the United States got involved in the Vietnam War

To stop the spread of communism

Years of the Persian Gulf War

1990-1991

United States president during the Gulf war

President Bush

This country invaded Kuwait to start the Persian Gulf War

Iraq

Leader of Iraq during the Persian Gulf War

Saddam Hussein

This equipment was used to inflict the most damage on the twin towers

airplanes

Date of the Twin towers collapse

September 11, 2001

The United States invaded this country in retaliation to the twin towers attacks

Afghanistan

The United States was looking for this person who orchestrated the attack on the twin towers

Osama Bid Laden

The Leader of Iraq when the United States invaded in 2003

Saddam Hussein