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Getting a nation's army ready for combat |
Mobilization |
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Support of another Slavic Country |
Pan-Slavism |
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The conference in which the map of Africa was redrawn by Europe |
Berlin Conference |
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand was assassinated in this city |
Sarajevo |
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This was the first nation to declare war. Archduke Ferdinand was their heir to this nation's throne |
Austria-Hungary |
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The Central Powers |
Austria Hungary Germany Ottoman Empire |
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The three original Allied nations |
Great Britain France Russia |
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At the battle of _____, any notion of a quick war was ended |
Marne |
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This German plan called for an initial invasion of France before launching an attack on Russia |
Schlieffen Plan |
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In this battle, fought in 1914, the Russian army was crushed by Germany |
Tannenberg |
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The Russian tsar who gave up his throne in 1917 |
Nicholas II |
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This treaty ended Russia's involvement in World War I |
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
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Opposition forces agreed to stop fighting on ____(DATE) |
November 11, 1918 |
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He was the leader of the October Revolution (1917). This revolution ended the Romanov dynasty (last led by Nicholas II) |
Vladimir Lenin |
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Describe the contents of the Zimmerman note/telegram |
Germany pledged to help Mexico regain land it lost to the US during the Mexican American War. All Mexico had to do was to start a war with the US |
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This U.S. President created the Fourteen Points of Peace |
Woodrow Wilson |
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The armistice was signed on this date |
November 11,1918 |
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The original member of the Allied Powers (Triple Entente) was not invited to the Paris Peace Conference because of their secret agreement with Germany |
Russia |
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This nation was expected to pay the total cost of the war |
Germany |
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This battle was Germany's last major offensive on the Western Front during World War I |
Second Battle of the Marne |
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This treaty officially ended World War I |
Treaty of Versailles |
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Leader of the Nazi Party in Germany during the Interwar Period and World War II |
Adolf Hitler |
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Leader of the Fascist party during the Interwar Period and World War II |
Benito Mussolini |
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British prime minister who instituted the policy of appeasement with Nazi Germany |
Neville Chamberlain |
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The U.S. president who ordered the atomic bombing of the two Japanese cities during World War II |
Harry S. Truman |
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French Leader at the end of World War II |
Charles de Gaulle |
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U.S. president during the Great Depression and most of World War II |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Replaced Vladimir as leader of the Communist Party |
Joseph Stalin |
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Commander of the US forces in the European Theatre |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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Commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific Theatre |
Douglas MacArthur |
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World War II began on this date with the attack on Poland |
September 1, 1939 |
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This battle is seen as the turning point in the Pacific Theater |
Battle of Midway |
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This battle is seen as the turning point in the Eastern front of the European Theater |
Stalingrad |
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This battle was Germany's last ditch attempt at pushing the Allies further west in the European theater |
Battle of the Bulge |
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The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on this Japanese city (Name and Date) |
Hiroshima August 6,1945 |
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The attack on this U.S. naval base, galvanized the U.S. involvement in World War II. (Name and Date) |
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 |
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The Allied invasion of Normandy took place on this date |
June 6, 1944 |
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The code name for Allied Invasion of Normandy |
Operation Overlord |
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This battle is seen as the turning point in the North African Campaign |
El Alamein |
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The code name of the German invasion of the Soviet Union |
Operation Barbarossa |
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"Let it be" - the government not getting involved in the economy |
Laissez-faire |
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Territory that was annexed to Germany. Think; Anschluss |
Austria |
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French defensive fortification that failed during World War II |
Marginot Line |
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What was the Manifesto of Race? |
In Italy, Jews were: 1. Stripped of their Italian citizenship 2. removed from government & teaching jobs 3. Banned from intermarriage |
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His first attempt at seizing power was known as the Beer Hall Putsch |
Adolf Hitler |
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The two superpowers who squared off against each other during the Cold War |
United States Soviet Union |
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Last Conference where the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) met to discuss post-World War II Europe |
Yalta Conference |
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The Soviet Union and seven other nations made up this alliance |
Warsaw Pact |
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The US put $400 million dollars into Greece and Turkey making sure they did't fall into communist hands. name the doctrine |
Truman Doctrine |
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name the five permanent members of the UN security council |
China France Great Britain Soviet Union (Cold War)/Russia(preset day) United States |
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Became leader of China in 1949 |
Mao Zedong |
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The civil war between Chinese Nationalists and Communists was put on hold, as they tried to expel troops from this nation (early-mid 1940's) |
Japan |
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Collective farm (in China) |
Commune |
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High School and college students mostly made up this Chinese militia unit. This group led the cultural revolution |
Red Guards |
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What is the key to life |
Short Bus |
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Mao's new program after the first Five Year plan |
Great Leap Forward |
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This parallel became a buffer zone between North and South Korea |
38th parallel |
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This parallel was a temporary buffer zone between North and South Vietnam |
17th parallel |
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This US president drastically increased the number of US troops in Vietnam. also, he was the president during the Golf of Tonkin incident |
Lyndon B. Johnson |
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US general in charge of the Vietnam War |
Gen. William Westmoreland |
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On Jan. 31, 1968, North Vietnamese and Vietcong forces invaded 100 metropolitan cities and towns in South Vietnam. name this offensive |
Tet Offensive |
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Fidel Castro became the leader of this nation in 1959 |
Cuba |
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He was the US President during the Bay of Pigs and Cuban missile crisis |
John F. Kennedy |
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Conservative Muslim leaders (in Iran) |
Ayatollahs |
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Islamic religious students who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan |
Taliban |
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The US backed this Iraqi leader during the Iraq-Iran War |
Saddam Hussein |
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He replaced Joseph Stalin as leader of the Soviet Union (1953) |
Nikita Khrushchev |
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This US president ushered in detente with China and the Soviet Union |
Richard Nixon |
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This agreement limited ICBM's and submarine-launched missiles |
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) |
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The policy of detente was reversed by this US president |
Ronald Reagan |
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This program was designed to protect against enemy missiles |
Strategic Defensive Initiative (SDI) a.k.a. "Star Wars Program" |
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Militarism Alliances Imperialism Nationalism |
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What is Total War |
all of nation's resources are used in the war effort |
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Which president was in office when the US joined the League of Nations |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Which German government signed the Treaty of Versailles |
Weimar Government |
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Pact of steel/Rome-Berlin Axis |
military alliance between Germany and Italy |
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Kristallnacht |
"Night of Broken Glass"; Nazis destroyed Jewish synagogues, etc. |
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What color did Italian Fascists wear |
Black |
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What was the main event that triggered WWII |
The Soviet Union invaded Poland with Germany |
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Who was the author of the appeasement policy and what did the policy grant |
Neville Chamberlain Germany was given lands, Czechoslovakia and Austria, in exchange for peace |
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Operation sea Lion |
German Naval and air attack on Britain |
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Operation Torch |
Allied attack on (southern) Europe from Africa |
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Domino Theory |
when one country falls to communism, the surrounding nations will fall too |
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"Thirteen day" |
standoff between the US and USSR over ICBM's in Cuba |
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North and South Vietnamese capitals |
North - Hanoi South - Saigon |
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North and South Korean capitals |
North - Pyongyang South - Seoul |
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Ho Chi Minh |
leader of North Vietnam |
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Operation Rolling Thunder |
US bombing campaign against VC forces |
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Presidents during the Vietnam War |
Eisenhower John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon |
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Detente |
Nixon policy of lessening tension between Cold War enemies |
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5 permanent members of the UN Security Council |
US GB China Russia France |
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Members of NAFTA |
Canada US Mexico |
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ISS |
International Space station |
