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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

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