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- CENTO
- Central Treaty Organization, contained Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan
- russian revolution
- after soviet union pulls out of ww1 , civil war breaks out in russia, vladimir lenin takes over, communists
- schlieffen plan
- plan to avoid a 2 front war-attack france first, then take care of russia
- Joseph Stalin
- communist party
- partition
- a division into pieces
- german military strategy
- the blitzkrieg
- vietnam war
- war between north and south vietnam. north is communist supported by russia. south is democratic supported by US
- neutrality
- policy of supporting neither side in a war
- Dienbienphu
- small town and former French army base in Northern Vietnam; site of the battle that ended in a Vietnamese victory, the French withdrawal from Vietnam, and the securing of North Vietnam's independence
- nuremburg laws
- laws approved by the nazi party depriving jews of german citizen ship and taking some rights away from them
- Lend-Lease Act
- An act passed by the united states that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the united states
- kamikaze
- japanese pilot who undertook a suicide mission
- Treaty of Versailles
- treaty after ww1 that made the germans pay reparations for the damage they started. Hitler opposed this treaty
- Communism
- Form of socialism advocated by Karl Marx
- Leadership in north of the 17th parallel
- Ho Chi Mihn
- Bolsheviks
- Russian people during Stalin
- Yalta Conference
- meeting between FRD, Churchill, and Stalin where the three leaders made agreements regarding the end of WW2
- Kristallnacht
- broken glass; Nazi mobs attacked Jewish homes and business
- Battle of the Bulge
- Last major battle in Germany
- Fidel Castro
- Organized an armed rebellion against the corrupt dictator who then ruled cuba. He led Guerrilla army to victory and set about transform the country (Cuban Revolution)
- Apartheid
- A policy of rigid segregation of non white people in the Republic of South Africa
- US Prohibitation
- making alcohol illegal; people who continued to do it were called bootleggers. 18th ammendment
- Indira Ghandi
- Prime minister after JawaharlaL Nehru who proved to the world that women could hold powerful positions
- operation sea lion
- plan to bomb britain, bombed for many days straight, not successful for germans
- Militarism
- glorification of the military
- propaganda
- ww2, spreading or damaging ideas
- Appeasement
- Policy of giving into an aggressors demands in order to keep peace
- nazi goals
- exterminate all the jews and take over europe
- Triple Alliance
- Germany-Austria, Hungary, Italy
- Detente
- Relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970's
- "Rosie the Riverter"
- Symbolized women, this character in the United States who built ships and planes and produced munitions
- seato
- south east asia treaty, allies formed it with asian countries
- viet cong
- Communist rebels in south vietnam who sought to overthrow south vietnam government. they received assistance from north vietnem
- United Nations
- Countries that set up a way to keep the peace
- Totalitarianism
- government in which a one party dictatorship regulates ever aspect of citizens lives
- Hitler's "Final Solution"
- Organized murder of all European Jews under his control
- Luftwaffe
- german airforce
- nuremburg trials
- first war trials in war history after ww2
- Zimmermann Note
- a note that US intercepted from Germany that was suppossed to be sent to Mexico asking them to attack the US
- Triple Entente
- France, Russia, Britain
- Gulag
- In the Soviet Union, forced labor camps where criminals and political prisoners were held under stalin
- US in the middle east
- supported the israelis
- Atomic Bombs in Japan
- Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima killing 70,000 people and then next day they dropped another bomb on Nagasaki killing over 40,000 people. This exposed them to radiation which caused the people to live in fallout shelters
- palestine vs isreal
- jews went to palestine caused problems, un divides palestine into 2 parts, half jews called israel, half arab called palestine
- sikh rebellion
- a religion in India that wanted change that stormed the golden temple. Ghandi sent troops there and her body guard killed her for doing that because he was a sikh
- Kim 2 sung
- north korea dictator, communist ally of the soviet union.
- War Reparations
- money that was paid by countries, especially germany for there actions in WW1
- Lusitania
- British liner torpedoed by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland
- Maginot Line
- massive fortifications built by the French along the French border of Germany to protect against future invasions
- 38th Parallel
- Separated Korea at this line
- Fascism
- Glorified action, violence, discipline and blind loyalty to the the state. Fascist leaders glorified warfare as a noble struggle for survival.
- Mussolini
- he believed in nationalism, he organized veterans and other discontented italians into the fascist party. symbolized unity and authority
- Entangled Alliances
- alliance in WW1 that were a cause in the war
- Fronts in WW1
- Trench warfare that ended up in a stalemate
- 17th Parallel
- Separated Vietnam at this line.
- russification
- stalin idea, make everything russian
- Tet Offensive
- massive and bloody offensive by communism guerillas by south vietnamese and american forces on tet, the vietnamese new year, helped turned american public opinion against military involvement in vietnam
- Black Shirts
- Italy's secret police set up by Moussolini
- Dunkirk
- Port in France in which 300000 allied troups were evacuated when their retreat were cut off by the German advance in 1940
- Concentration Camps
- Detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state
- U.S. Containment
- try not to let communism spread throughout the world
- nehru
- first president of india, wanted to strengthen indias economy but rapid population hurt it
- Causes of WW1
- Entangled alliances and Francis Ferdinand
- Domino Theory
- When one country fell to communism all the other countries would fallow
- Trench Warfare
- Type of warfare during WW1 on the Western front
- Syngman Rhee
- leader of south korea
- Kurds
- Ethnic group that lives in northern Middle east who faced discrimination
- new deal
- massive package to help americans during the great deprssion
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- American president in 1932. Argued that the government had to take an active role in combating the Great Depression
- Total War
- Channeling of a nations entire resources into a war effort
- Battle at Stalingrad
- Last major battle in Soviet Union, Soviet successful, Urban warfare, German plans to take oil and fuel from them, WW2
- Indian Congress Party
- pressed for self-rule within the British empire. Members were mostly in the middle-class
- Ho Chi Minh
- Nationalist and Communist who had fought the Japanese. His communists controlled north vietnam
- Cold War
- No violence war between United States and Russia
- ngo dinh diem
- president of democratic south vietnam, supported by us
- V-J Day
- day japan surrendered in WW2
- Leadership in south of the 17th parallel
- Dihn Diem
- salt
- stategic arms limiting treaty, stop making nuclear weapons
- Francisco Franco
- Conservative general that led a revolt that touched off a bloody civil war. Hitler and Mussolini sent arms and forces to help
- neutrality Acts
- a series of acts passed by the us congress that aimed to keep the us involved in ww2
- kulaks
- Wealthy farmers; Stalin liquidate them as a class. Government confiscated their land and sent them to labor camps.
- Stalin's purges
- killed groups of people in Russia, especially the Kulaks
- socialism
- system in which people as a whole own all property and operate all business and the government controls parts of the economy
- Causes of WW2
- Hitler and Facist leaders invading Poland and appeasement
- League of Nations
- based on the idea of collective security, a system in which a group of nations acts as one to preserve the peace of all. Wilson felt sure that it could correct any mistakes made in Paris
- Red Scare
- Fear of communism/radicals and the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia set it off in 1919 and 1920
- stalemate on the western front
- trench warfare between france and germany during WW1
- Island Hopping
- During WW2, allied strategy of recapturing some Japanese-held islands while by-passing others
- U Boats
- German submarines that destroyed ships during WW2
- Blitzkreig
- German method of warfare, air raid first, then land attack
- Adolph Hitler
- An anti-semetic nazi who was against the jews and wanted a complete Aryan race
- Leadership in north of the 38th parallel
- Kim Il Sung
- Warsaw Pact
- mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in eastern europe
- Truman Doctrine
- rooted in the idea of containment, limiting communism to the areas already Soviet control
- Vichy France
- the germans set up a puppet state
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Soviet Union sent nuclear missiles to Cuba, Kennedy imposed a naval blockade that prevented further Soviet shipments. Nikita Krushchev agreed to remove Soviet missiles
- Marshall Plan
- packages offered by the united states to europe to help countries rebuild after WW2
- Suburbanization
- the movement to build up areas outside central cities
- Zeppelin
- large gas filled balloons to bomb the english coast
- allied strategy in WW2
- wanted the axis to fight in many fronts
- Leadership in south of the 38th parallel
- Sungman Rhee
- Fourteen Points
- List of terms for resolving World War 1 and future wars outlined by American President Woodrow Wilson in January 1918
- African nations gaining independence
- ghana, kenya, algeria, congo, and nigeria
- Cuban Revolution
- Fidel Castro takes over the government and changes to communism
- Urbanization
- movement of people from rural areas to cities
- opec
- blocked oil shipments to the us to protest us support for israel
- Coup
- The forcible overthrow of a government
- nato
- north atlantic treaty organization, u.s canada and 10 countries pledge to help one another if anyone of them were attacked
- V-E Day
- the day germany surrender
- Stalingrad
- city named after stalin where there was a major battle during WW2. Costliest
- pacifism
- oppositiont to all war
- nazi-soviet pact
- treaty signed with germaNY AND russia before ww2, hitler attacked russia and broke the pact because he did want the spread of communism
- Anschluss
- Union of Austria and Germany
- Nikita khrushchev
- leader of russia after stalin
- Arms Race
- The United States and the Soviet Union had a race to create bigger and better weapons
- nazism
- people who followed the nazi regime
- Attack on PearL Harbor
- General Tojo ordered a surprise attack to have the Japanese airplanes bomb the American Fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
- Holocaust
- the systematic genocide of about six million European Jews by the Nazis during World War 2