Global Studies Exam Review
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- Alsace-Lorraine
- Border provinces in France, Part of Germany after the Franco Prussian War
- Leon Trotsky
- Communist leader who led the Red Army
- Lusitania
- British passenger liner that was struck by a German torpedo
- Nicholas II
- Ignored German demand to cancel mobilization
- The Somme
- The British, French, and Germans fought a battle here. It was terrible and inconclusive. British introduced the tanks here.
- Kellogg-Biand
- Treaty between America and France that denounced war as a means of settling disputes
- Benito Mussolini
- "Il Duce" dictator of Italy
- Maginot Line
- France built a series of fortifications that were 200 miles long to prevent against German invasion
- Third Reich
- What Hitler called his government; the Third Empire
- Siberia
- Region around Russia where Stalin's labor camps were
- Mohandas Gandhi
- Protested racial discrimination based on civil disobedience
- Salvador Dali
- Artist who used surrealism
- Neville Chamberlain
- Resigned after Norway and Denmark fell
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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-Allied commander
-Assembled force for D-Day (Operation Overlord) - Vichy
- In southern France, the Nazis set up a puppet government here under Henri Petain
- Harry S Truman
- Ordered atomic bomb to be dropped
- Haile Selassie
- Condemned Italian aggression in his country
- Francisco Franco
- Led the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War
- Midway
- In this battle, the American defeated the Japanese navy and ended Japanese naval superiority in the Pacific
- Nuremberg
- Sit of trials for Nazi leaders after the war
- Germany's 1839 treaty about neutrality
- Signed with Great Britain, Russia, and France, and guarunteed the neutrality of Belgium
- Fascists, like communists, advocated what?
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gave the state total authority
authoritarianism and totalitarianism - Where were Indians fired upon?
- Armritsar
- Gandhi's spinning wheel
- symbol of independence movement and symbol of the National congress
- Colapse of France helped Japan achieve what?
- indochina
- Stalin's agreement about Hitler
- Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact
- WWII began with the invasion of what?
- Poland
- QWhat is kristallnacht?
- the night when the Nazis carried out attacks on jews in Austria
- Allied Pacific campaign
- Included island hopping, leapfrogging, bypassing some islands and attacking others
- World's major manufacturer in the 1920s
- U.S.
- What was the American's neutrality policy in the 1940s while supplying Britain?
- Cash and carry
- Who were allied with Austria Hungary in WWI?
- Central Powers
- Who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
- Isoroku Yamamoto
- Who assassinated Francis Ferdinand?
- Nationalists groups from Serbia
- Where were the postwar talks with Roosebelt, Churchill, and Stalin held?
- Yalta
- What was the major turning point in WWII?
- Stalingrad
- HOw did the French insure Germany would pay its war debts in 1923?
- They invaded Ruhr Valley and took control of coal mines and steel mills
- What is the treaty of Brest-Litocsk?
- Russing signed this with Germany. They lost most western territory and a third of the population.
- Who developed the theory of relativity?
- Albert Einstein
- What agreement between Italy and Germany made them declare war on the U.S.?
- Tripartite Pact
- Who was the first to use poison gas?
- German troops
- Russia sided with Serbia in 1914 after what diplomatic agreement?
- Austrai-Hungary declared war on Serbia and France said they would support Russia
- The newly formed USSR was controlled by whom?
- Communist party leaders
- What are the commonwealth of nations?
- A voluntary assocation linking Great Britian and its former colonies on an equal basis
- Who became the fascist leader of the black shirts?
- Mussolini