World Cultures final
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- Vietcong
- communists in South Vietnam
- Dutch East Indies
- Had spice, coffee, and tea plantations
- Matthew C. Perry
- opens up Japan for trade
- UN Security Council
- decides on military action, 5 permanent, 10 temporary
- mobilize
- prepare for war
- Ayatollah Khomeini
- overthrew the Shah, instituted an Islamic government in Iran
- Battle of the Bulge
- Germany's last offensive, largest land battle of the war
- Iran-Iraqi war
- 1980-1988, Iraq uses chemical weapons
- Berlin Conference
- the powers of Europe divide up Africa
- Triple Alliance
- Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
- Truman Doctrine
- the US would aid any country trying to resist communism
- Central Powers in WWI
- Germany, Austria-Hungary,Ottoman Empire, Bulgaria
- megalopolis
- supercity
- Marshall Plan
- gave billions of dollars to western Europe to aid economic recovery
- Intifada
- uprising or shakeoff
- Short Term causes of WWI
- Assasination of Archduke Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia
- Treaty of Nanjiang
- ended the Opium Wars and gave the British Hong Kong
- Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- seperate peace between Germany and Russia
- Mechanization of WWI
- submarines, machine guns, tanks, airplanes poison gas
- Manchuria, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, China Proper
- Five Regions of China
- Mujahedeen
- holy warriors in Afghanistan
- Attack on Pearl Harbor
- December 7, 1941
- The Three G's(motivations for Europeans taking colonies)
- God, glory, and gold
- apartheid
- the racial segragation in South Africa
- Czar Nicholas III
- Leader of Russia, overthrown by the Bolsheviks
- the Big Four
- David Lloyd George, Woodrow Wilson, Georges Clemenceau, Vittorio Orlando
- Luftwaffe
- German Air force
- monopoly
- one company controls all trade and production
- extraterritoriality
- foreigners who commit crimes are tried back at home
- dependent colonies
- a few Europeans ruling over others
- Appeasement
- the British and French giving in to Hitler's demands
- "Axis of evil"
- North Korea, Iran, Iraq
- Lusitania
- British ship sunk by a German U-boat, 128 Americans killed
- settlement colonies
- large groups of people living in a new place
- merchantilism
- colonies are established for the overall good of the mother country
- mercenaries
- hired soldiers
- Shah of Iran
- friendly to the US, fled the country with billions of dollars, let into the US for cancer treatment
- protectorates
- Europeans act as a big brother, but actually control the country
- Bolsheviks
- communists, transformed Russia into a communist state, pulled out off WWI
- Triple Entente
- Britain, France, Russia
- Josef Stalin
- leader after Lenin, brutal dictator
- Schutzstaffel
- Secret police of the Nazis
- Blitzkrieg
- "Lightning War"
- Taiping Rebellion
- worst civil war in history, weakened China
- Zaibatsu
- rich industrial families in Japan
- Treaty of Versailles
- ends WWI, Germany took responsibility for the war and had to pay all debts
- Munich Conference
- Britain gives Hitler the Sudetenland
- spheres of influence
- areas under economic control
- Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression pact
- Germany and USSR form a temporary peace agreement
- Mao Zedong
- communist leader of China, leads the revolution
- Axis powers in WWII
- Germany, Japan, Italy
- Bamboo curtain
- China's psycological isolation
- Hate propaganda
- demonizes the enemy
- Armistice
- November 11, 1918 at 11:00 AM
- Scorched Earth
- Soviets retreat and burn everything they leave behind
- Spanish-American war
- US gained Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Leader of the Democratic South Vietnam
- Long Term causes of WWI
- Imperialism, nationalism, militarism, alliance system
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- atomic bombings, ended the war
- DMZ
- Demilitarized zone
- superpower
- a leading nation with powerful military, political, and economic influence
- Vladimir Lenin
- communist party leader, founder of the Bolshevik revolution
- SEVAC
- Shah of Iran's secret police
- Heinrich Himmler
- Leader of the SS
- League of Nations
- International peacekeeping organization
- Kim Il-Sung
- Communist leader of North Korea
- cash crops
- sugar, tobacco, cotton
- Allied Powers in WWII
- France, Great Britain, US, USSR
- Schlieffen Plan
- Germany's plan to invade France through Belgium, then focus on Russia
- D-Day
- June 6, 1944
- PLO
- terrorist organization led by Yassir Arafat
- Meiji Restoration
- period in which Japan began to modernize
- UN General Assembly
- all member countries, appoints judges, controls budgets, elects leaders
- Holocaust
- annihilation of Jews and other groups by Hitler and the Nazis
- Ho Chi Minh trail
- supply line through Laos and Cambodia to aid the Vietcong
- Dien bien Phu
- Last City the French held before Indochina fell
- viceroy
- British administrator of India
- French Indochina
- Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia
- Allied Powers in WWI
- US, France, Russia, Great Britain, Italy
- Cultural Revolution
- China ridding itself of its old ways
- Ho Chi Minh
- Founder of the Communist party in Vietnam, North Vietnamese leader
- Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu
- major islands of Japan
- Syngman Rhee
- Nationalist leader of South Korea
- joint stock companies
- merchants joining together and selling shares of their companies
- Chiang Kai-Shek
- Nationalist leader of China, got expelled to Taiwan