World Civ II - Chapter 13 - The Causes and Consequences of WWII

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Approximately what percentage of the world’s population was infected by the flu?

often pursued higher education, regularly worked, and adopted new fashions

What were the characteristics of the “New Woman”?

Munich Pact

Which 1938 agreement allowed Hitler to annex the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia?

quick and overwhelming attacks using air and ground forces

What was the German military strategy known as blitzkrieg designed to achieve?

Atlantic Charter

Established shared Allied postwar goals and principles

Yalta Conference

Planned for the creation of the United Nations and Soviet entry into the Pacific War

Potsdam Conference

Determined final terms of Japan’s surrender and addressed postwar Europe tensions

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True or false? The Salt March was a protest against taxes on salt purchased in India.

True

True or false? The Irish Free State was created through a treaty, but it did not fully satisfy those who wanted complete independence from Great Britain.

socialist realism

This type of art glorified peasants and industrial workers, depicting heroic, muscular steelworkers and smiling farmers wielding agricultural implements.

fascism

This political movement focused on transforming citizens into committed nationalists striving for unity and racial purity to remedy a perceived national decline.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

This agreement renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy.

to avoid a costly invasion expected to result in massive U.S. casualties

Why did President Truman decide to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

ENIAC

the first programmable electronic digital computer, built by the United States during World War II

Executive Order 9066

a presidential order that led to relocation and internment of more than 100,000 Japanese Americans during the war

Final Solution

the Nazi plan to eliminate the Jewish population of Europe; developed by senior bureaucrats at the Wannsee Conference

German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact

a 1939 agreement between Germany and the USSR in which the two nations agreed not to attack one another or to assist other nations in attacking the other and to divide portions of eastern Europe between them

Holocaust

the Nazi genocide that resulted in the murder of more than six million Jewish people and at least three million members of other, non-Jewish minority groups

Lebensraum

a German term meaning “living room” and referring to lands seized from countries in eastern Europe in which Adolf Hitler envisioned settling German families to supplant the native Slavic populations

Lend-Lease Act

U.S. legislation enacted to provide military assistance to nations important to its defense

Manhattan Project

the U.S. project to build an atomic bomb

Nuremberg Laws

a series of laws promulgated in Germany in 1935, institutionalizing Nazi racial theories and discrimination against Jewish people

Nuremberg Trials

the formal postwar prosecution of German war crimes

Percentages Agreement

the agreement between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin about how to divide political influence in Eastern Europe after the war

Trinity Test

the first successful U.S. test of an atomic bomb