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80 Cards in this Set
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Where is the Atlantic Ocean? |
East of- North and South Americas West of- Africa and Europe North of- Antarctica No where near- Australia and Asia |
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Where is the Black Sea? |
Southeast of- Europe West of- Asia |
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What country is this? |
Egypt |
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Ethiopia |
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Libya |
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France |
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Germany |
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Where is the Indian Ocean? |
East of- Africa South of- Asia West of- Australia North of- Antarctica No where near- the Americas |
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What country is this? |
Italy |
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Where is the Mediterranean Sea? |
Europe is north of it Asia is to the east of it Africa is to the south of it |
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What country is this? |
Norway |
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Where is the Pacific Ocean? |
East of- Asia, Australia West of- the Americas |
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Portugal |
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Russia |
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South Africa |
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Spain |
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What country is this? |
The United Kingdom |
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Who declared war on Germany after it invaded Poland? |
Britain and France |
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What allowed FDR to provide war materials to certain nations? |
The Lend-Lease Act |
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When did the allies invade France? |
On June 6, 1944 D-Day |
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After WWII what was the United State's goal in Japan? |
Was to start a democracy and stop the military from rebuilding |
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What is the Marshall Plan? |
It helped strengthen the governments of Europe after WWII |
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What is the "iron curtain"? |
Its an imaginary line between communism and Western Europe |
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What did the US and USSR compete in? |
In the developing countries by offering them military and economic aid |
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Why was Pakistan created? |
To give Hindus and Muslims their own states |
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Why did the Korean war start? |
Because North Korea invaded South Korea |
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Where did American soldiers fight communism? |
Korea and Vietnam |
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Why did Mikhail Gorbachev rewrite communism? |
To allow soviets their freedoms |
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Why did the British feel threatened by Germany? |
Because German factories outproduced British ones |
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How did European countries discourage foreign invasion? |
They formed alliances |
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Where did Archduke Ferdinand visit? Who was threatened? |
He visited Bosnia Serbian revolutionaries were threatened |
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Why did Great Britain go to war with Germany? |
To protect Belgium |
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What is "Powdered Keg"? |
Several conflicting interest in the Balkan region named the area "Powdered Keg" |
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What helped persuade Americans to enter WWI? |
Unrestricted submarine warfare |
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What did the treat of Versailles do to Germany? |
It limited the size of Germany's military |
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Why did America join WWI |
Because of submarines |
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What happens to Germany because of WWI? |
Germany is blamed for WWI and can only have a small army
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What do communists do to quiet enemies? |
Began a reign of terror |
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Why did Lenin side with Germans? |
To make peace with the whites |
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What is communist propaganda meant for? |
Meant to make communism look better than capitalism |
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What did Africans resist in Europe? |
Resisted European policies of taxes and forced labor
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Who was Gandhi influenced by? |
Henry David Thoreau, an American transcendentalist thinker |
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Why did Sun Yixian make the Guomindang party? |
To make China more organized |
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Who turned China communist? |
Mao Zedong |
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Sigmond Freud started what ideas? |
Started the ideas of psychoanalysis and the study of the mind in modern times |
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Jazz is a combination of what? |
Western and African rhythms
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What two parties like idea of total control? |
Fascism and Communism |
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How did Hitler limit Jewish rights? |
Used the Nuremburg Laws |
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
His assassination sparked WWI
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Vladimir Lenin |
Communist leader of Russia, led Bolshevik revolution |
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Bolshevik |
Means majority, communist party
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Gandhi |
Indian peace activist, wanted social and political change
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Mao Zedong |
turned China communist
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League of Nations |
International peace keeping group after WWI
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Naionalism |
Pride in country
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Great Depression |
server economic decline in the 1930s
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FDR |
President during WWII, created the new deal |
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Benito Mussolini |
Italian fascist leader during WWII
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Harry Truman |
President after FDR, Truman Doctrine, dropped bomb on Japan
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Berlin Wall |
East: Communist
West: Democratic |
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Genocide |
Attempt to destroy an entire religious or ethnic group
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Mikhail Gorbachev |
President of Soviet Union when the Soviet Union fell
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Israel |
Middle East, conflict between Palestine because of land
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Anwar Sadat |
President of Egypt who made peace with Israel, got assinated
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Apartheid |
Racial segregation in South Africa between whites and blacks
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NATO |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, nations from America and Europe helped each other out
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Saddam Hussein |
Iraq dictator who killed his own people, was killed in 2006, captured in 2003
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Osama Bin Laden |
9/11, leader of Al-Qaeda |
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How did the cold war come to an end? |
The Soviet Union fell because communism did not spread |
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What was the cold war? How did it start? |
- A state of tension and hostility between nations with the United States on 1 side and Soviet Union on the other - USSR wanted to spread communism but the US wanted to contain it |
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How did the cold war affect Germany? |
At the end of WWII the main allied powers, US France and Britain and the USSR divided Germany into 2 areas. West and East Germany and Berlin |
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Three factors that caused the United States to enter WWI |
- Unrestricted submarine warfare - Zimmerman note- Germany tried to get Mexico on their side but the British intercepted it - Allies with Britain, people against Germany |
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What events lead up to WWI? What events started WWI? |
MAIN and the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand Militarism- new weapons and technology Alliances- agreement with other countries Imperialism- stronger nation takes over weaker nations Nationalism- pride in ones nation |
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How was WWI different from other wars? |
Because of the new modern technology such as machine guns, gases, tanks, planes and cannons |
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What countries were involved in the cold war? |
USSR and The United States
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What change did WWII have on women and other minority groups? |
Women, children, African Americans and others started working in factories |
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Treaty of Versailles and how did it punish Germany? |
- Signed June 28, 1919 - Germany forced to pay the allies 33 billion over 30 years - Germany had to take responsibility for WWI, had to surrender its overseas - Limited army size - Forbidden to buy or build |
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What is propaganda? 3 examples that were used by Hitler? Why is it important for the Nazis? |
- The deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, ect. - Put pictures of himself in people's houses and made communism look better than capitalism - Made Nazis look good |
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How did WWI cause political and cultural changes in Europe during the 1920s? |
No one trusted each other and Britain and France wanted to get rid of Germany |
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How did nationalism change Africa and Asia during WWII? |
Asia- Japan tried to take over countries in Asia Africa- Colonies started to fight over each other |
