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- which countries were members of the triple alliance
- Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary
- U.S. presidend Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the
- New Deal
- What was a key characteristic of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s
- supremacy of the state
- Which city was the target of an unsuccessful German Blitz for two months in 1941
- London
- all of the following were leaders of Fascist governments EXCEPT
- Emperor Hirohito
- who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November revolution
- V.I. Lenin
- which of the following was a result of the work in Marie Curie and Albert Einstein
- the discovery of atomic fission
- first attack on Jewish population in Germany
- Kristal Nacht
- Rommel, Erwin mickname was
- Desert Fox
- in general, the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles focusesd mainly on
- punishing Germany
- which of the following groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917
- the Bolsheviks
- the US strategy of "island-hopping" in the pacific
- allowed the US to gradually move north toward Japan
- At Yalta Conference USSR wanded to
- harsh punishment toward Germany, create buffer zone to protect itself from being invaded again
- World War I was more destructive than earlier wars because
- modern weapons were deadlier
- hitlers plan to invade England
- Operation sea lion
- Where Truman ordered the dropping of Atomic Bomb
- Potsdam Conference
- THe League of Nations might have been more successful if
- the US had joined it
- what was one reason why the spanish civil war was called a "drees rehearsal" for WWII
- the nazis used the war to test their new weapons
- What did the Nazi-soviet pact accomplish for germany
- it gave germany a free hand in the Sudentenland
- What stopped the german advance during the invation of the soviet union in 1941
- the terrible winter of 1941-42
- 3 big allies nations met to dicuss what to do with Nazi Germany
- Yalta Conference
- which country underwent a civil war in the late 1930s
- Spain
- As a result of the Battle of Stalingrad
- the REd Army began to push the Germans out of the Soviet Union
- the dual monarchy was a combination of
- Austria and Hungary
- World War II in Europe gegan on September 1, 1939 with Hitler's invation of
- Poland
- what was usually the first stage of hitlers blitzkrieg strategy
- the luftwaffe attached ground targets from the air
- france occupied Gernays coal rich Ruhr Valled in 1923
- because germany had fallen behind in reparations
- 3 Big allies at the Yalta Conference
- US, England, USSR
- in 1942 what priority did Roosevelt, churchill, and stalin set in the war
- to achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve it in Asia
- Toward the end of World War II, Hitler began making mistakes such as
- Supporting Mussolini
- Security Council at United Nations
- 5 permanent Members, 10 at large
- what happened at Dunkirk in the spring of1940
- british forces successfully retreated across the english channel
- one of Hilter's goals was the
- persecution and elimination of Jews
- which statement correctly describes the japanese economy after world war I
- japan became a true industrial power
- what name was given to U.S. strategy in World War II's Pacific theater
- island-hopping
- Bernard Montgomery nickmane was
- Monty
- which allied leader wanted to weaken Germany at the Paris Peace conference so that it could never again threaten France
- Georges Clemenceau
- during the three yer long civil war in Russia, the "White" armies were composed of
- tsarist officiers, democrats, and othe anti-Bolsheviks
- german air attack on England
- battle of Britain
- the build-up of armed forces in Europe during the late 1800s is an example of
- militarism
- At Yalta Conference England wanted to create
- independent democracies across Europe
- 5 Permanent Members at the Security Council
- US, USSR (RUSSIA), ENGLAND, FRANCE CHINA
- a military compaign conducted 1968- turned American public opinion against war
- Tet Offensive
- What was the Kellogg- Briand Pact
- an international peace agreement
- Organization of Communist states in central and eastern europe dominated by USSR
- Warsaw Pact
- during operation barbarossa hitler copied who's plan
- napoleon
- What was teh Manhattan Project
- the U.S. project to develop the atomic bomb
- a stalemate developed along the Western Front early in the war because
- Trench warfare made it difficult for either side to win an advantage
- MAD
- Mutual Assured Destruction
- 1st armed confronation of Cold War
- Korean War
- what 1924 agreement reduced German reparations and provided U.S. loans to Germany
- Dawes Plan
- in 1935 the Nazis passed the Nuremberg laws which
- deprived Jews of German citizenship
- how did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931
- it condemned Japan's action but did nothing to stop it
- who were the kamikaze
- japanese pilots who crased into allied warships
- eventually right-wing dicators emergaed in every Easter European country except
- Czecholovakia and Finland
- what did the british and french do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war
- they persuaded the Czechs to surrender to the Sudetenland
- during opreration barbarosssa the soviet union used what
- scored earth
- hitler decided to invade the soviet union because
- he wanted the soviet unions vast natural resources
- General Assembly at the United Nations
- included a rep form every member country
- in the early 1930s, which of the following contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world
- governments raised tariffs to protect their economes
- which group sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and longed for another strong leader like Bismarck
- conservative Germans
- member states agree to mutual defense in sesponse to an attack by any external party
- NATO
- 2 superpowers
- US, USSR
- in 1931 japanese ultranationalists seized the Chinese province of
- Manchuria
- In response to Axis aggression in the 1930s, Western democracies followed a policy of
- appeasement
- which statement is correct about the economy of the United States int eh 1920s
- the U.S. became the worlds leading economic power
- World War II in the Pacific ended with
- the bonging of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- which ohe following was a Social Darwinist argument in favor of Wester imperialism
- westerners thought they had a duty to bring their civilization to ingerior races
- who was punished most harshly for its involvement in WWI
- Germany
- Which of the following was used as a justification for imperialism
- Social Darwinism
- which of the folowing groups seized complete control of Russia in 1917
- the Bolsheviks
- II Duce was the title of which of the following leaders
- Benito Mussolini
- how did the germans change their tactics in preparing for Operation Sea Lion
- They began to omb london and other cities
- The Dawes Plan was an attempt by an international committee to strenghthen
- the German economy
- the Weimar REpublic was the postwar democratic government of
- Germany
- Biggest threat to world peace and foundation to cold war
- nuclear bombs