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What was the name of the agreement that the Zionist movement used to justify the creation of Israel? |
The Balfour Declaration of1917 |
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What events led to the end of World War II? |
The war ended inEurope after D-Day won back France and started a 2-front war. The war ended for good when U.S. PresidentTruman dropped atomic bombs in Japan |
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Describe Mao Zedong |
▪ Chinese communistleader ▪ Long March- gainsrural peasant support as flees from Chiang Kai-shek (aka Jiang Jeishi) andNationalist Party ▪ Took power afterbattling Chiang Kai-shek – Nationalist Party flees to Taiwan ▪ “Great Leap Forward” economic plan to increase output- fails ▪ Communes Resulted in famine and economic inefficiency |
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Describe Mohandas Gandhi |
▪ Indian nationalist leader ▪ Fought for rightsof women and untouchables ▪ Fought for IndianindependenceNon-violence – homespun cloth, Salt March (1930), hungerstrikes |
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Describe the Chinese Communist Revolution |
After the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion, the Qing Dynasty falls. War breaks out between nationalists and communists Mao = communism wins ▪ Long March (8,000 mile retreat when losing civil war) ▪ Economic failure under Great Leap Forward (5-yearplans / Collective Farming) |
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Define Totalitarianism |
▪ government has total control ▪ leader is a dictator ▪ methods ofcontrol: police terror, brainwashing, ethnic persecution, censorship ▪ Examples: Hitler,Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, absolute monarchs |
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Name at least two nationalist leaders of African independence: |
▪ Kwane Nkrumah ▪ Jomo Kenyatta |
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What was the Cultural Revolution? |
Mao Zedong's attempt to recreate a revolutionary spirit in China. Schools were closed, teachers were attacked, and Mao eliminated his political opposition. The economy shrank by 12% during this time. |
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Define a command economy |
An economy where supply and price are regulated by the government rather than the market (this is anti-supply and demand) Examples include Stalin's Russia and Mao's forced communes in China |
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Why is the United Nations stronger than the League of Nations? |
The UN has greater participation on the part of themajor powers including the United States. |
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How did the international community respond to the holocaust? |
Nuremberg Trials 1945-1946 found 21 Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes. 12 were sentenced to death. This lead to the creation of the United Nations and the declaration of human rights This also gave support for the establishment of Israel |
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What was the intention of the Marshall Plan? |
The US aimed to stop communism by providing war torn countries with economic assistance |
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What were the two military alliances created during the Cold War? |
--Nato (1949) The US and allies Versus --Warsaw Pact (1955) the Soviet Union and communist satellite states |
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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” ― Winston S. Churchill How did appeasement lead to the beginning of WWII? |
It allowed Hitler's military aggression to go unchecked. |
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A common political action pursued by Maximilien Robespierre, Joseph Stalin, and Mao Zedong was |
Purging their nations of political opponents |
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Name two examples of Gandhi's nonviolent protest: |
"homespun movement" and the Salt March |
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The below individuals share which characteristic? KwaneNkrumah Leopold Senghor Jomo Kenyatta Julius Nyerere |
They were all African nationalists |
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Name one concluding military event of WWII: |
United States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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The following terms relate to which historical event? ▪ Marshall Plan ▪ Berlin Airlift ▪ Nato ▪ Civil Rights ▪ African Nationalism ▪Truman Doctrine |
Cold War |
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The unprecedented violence and human rights atrocities of WWII led to the establishment of which organization? |
United Nations |
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What was the role of the individual in the former Soviet Union? |
Suppress individualism, and follow the state. |
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During the Munich agreement France and Great Britain appeased Hitler. Which region did they allow the German leader to occupy? |
The Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia |
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The dream versus the reality of Mao: What were the goals of Mao's Great Leap Forward? How did this contrast with the outcomes? |
Goal: Increase industrial production Results: Results in famine and starvation; 20 million die; steel produced is of poor quality. |
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What was the total amount of casualties in WWII? |
Casualties: 60 million 50% are civilians |
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What happened at the Munich Conference of 1938? |
France and Britain appeased Hitler and allowed him to take control of the Sudetenland |
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What are the four MAIN causes of World War I? |
Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
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What was the relationship between World War I and the Russian Revolution. |
The war acted as a catalyst for the revolution by creating widespread homelessness, increasing the price of bread, and bringing Lenin back to Russia |
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The Nazi Holocaust, which engulfed millions of Jews in Europe, proved anew the urgency of the reestablishment of the Jewish state, which would solve the problem of Jewish homelessness by opening the gates to all Jews and lifting the Jewish people to equality in the family of nations. ..." Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion What conflict does this quotation speak to? |
The Israel and Palestinian conflict: both sides claimed territory to the same land. |
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Mohandas Gandhi's protest of the salt tax imposed onIndia by the British is an example of |
Civil Disobedience |
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What policy did India pursue during the Cold War? |
neutral/non-alingment |
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What was one result of the Great Leap Forward? |
It resulted in famine and 20 million deaths due to starvation |
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"FromStettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent."––Winston Churchill (1946) What is the 'Iron Curtain' according to Churchill |
The influence and aggression of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe during the Cold War |
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Which social group supported Mao Zedong during the Chinese Civil War? |
Peasants |
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Napoleon's defeat in 1812 and Hitler's defeat at Stalingrad in 1944 were effects of what aspect of Russian geography? |
Harsh climate--most of the soldiers were unprepared for winter |
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk changed the Turkish government by |
--introducing democratic reforms --secularizing the country |
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What was the BIG PICTURE effect of Mao's Great Leap Forward |
20 million people starved to death as a result of famine |
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What was the major method of murder was used as part of the final solution during the Holocaust? |
gas chambers |
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What is the purpose of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)? Where are most of its members located? |
Regulate the price of oil Most countries are in the Middle East |
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Define Cult of Personality |
Arises when a politician uses the mass media in order to increase their popularity and control of a group of people |
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What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan |
to offer aid and assistance to war torn capitalist states after World War II |
