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Sepoy Mutiny
1858; led to direct British control of India.
Ram Mohan Roy
Father of Modern India
2 reforms suggested by the "Father of Modern India" to modernize India
1. Get rid of child marriage
2. Get rid of widow suicide
2 National Parties in India that both wanted to kick the British out of India (1900)
1. Indian National Congress
2. Muslim League
3 countries a part of French Indochina
1. Vietnam
2. Laos
3. Cambodia
Nationalist that fought for Filipino independence from the United States right after the Spanish-American War
Emilio Aguinaldo
American Commordore who opened up Japan to trade from the United States
Commodore Matthew Perry
Opium War between these two countries
1. Chinese
2. English
Empress Cixi
Dowager Empress of China from 1861-1908
Emporer of Japan during the Meiji Era (1867-1912)
Mutsuhito
4 long range causes of the Great War (WWI)
(IMEN)
1. Imperalism
2. Millitarism - Arms race
3. Economic Rivalry
4. Nationalism
Gavrilo Princip assassinated this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne
Francis Ferdinand
1914 this country gave the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy a "blank check"
Germany
3 Central Powers during the Great War
1. Germany
2. Ottoman Empire
3. Bulgaria
U-boats
German created Submarines
President during the Great War (WWI)
Woodrow Wilson
First Marne
At this battle, the Germans were stopped 20 miles from Paris at the Marne River
Battle of Somme
At this battle a British general said, "It was the blackest day in the history of the British Army."
German field Marshall who defeated the Russians at the battle of Tannenberg
Von Hindenberg
Battle of Verdon
At this battle, a French General said "they (Germany) shall not pass"
Battle of Jutland
After this naval battle, the German navy was driven back into port and did not come out to give battle to the British Navy for the rest of the war
Roosevelt's Three R's
1. Relief
2. Reform
3. Recovery
5 major causes of the Great Depression
1. Stock Market
2. High Tarriffs
3. Lack of Credit
4. Unequal Distribution of Wealth
5. Natural Disasters
The Popular Front was this European countries solution to the Great Depression
France
3 Republican Presidents of the 1920s
1. Harding
2. Cooling
3. Hoover
2 European statesmen signed the Locarno Agreement
1. Briand
2. Gustav Stresemen
American Secretary of State who signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Henry Cabot Lodge
This scientist was responsible for the "theory of relativity"
Einstein
Austrian who wrote The Interpretation of Dreams
Frued
3 Scandanavian countries used cooperative community effort to fight the effects of the Great Depression
1. Sweeden
2. Finland
3. Norway
3 Programs (administrations/acts) that Roosevelt initiated to get the United States out of the Great Depression
1. Works Progress Administration
2. Civilian Conservation Core
3. Tennessee Valley Authority
In these radio adresses FDR assured the nation that Banks were again sound and that you should put your money in them again
Fireside Chats
Senator from Luisiana who may have become the totalitarian leader of the United States had it not been for an assassins bullet
Huey Long
4 of Wilson's 14 points
1. Open Peace
2. League of Nations
3. Self Determination
4. Arms Limitation
Who were the "Big Three" (men) at the Paris Peace Talks of 1919?
1. Georges Clemen Ceau
2. David Lloyd George
3. Woodrow Wilson
3 reason the United States entered the War in 1917
1. close ties with British
2. had been giving loans & arms and ammo to allies
3. Luisitania
Supreme Commander of all Allied Forces on the Western Front in the summer of 1918
Ferdinand Foch
German general who led the Meuse-Argonne Offense in the spring of 1918
Ludendorff
Second Marne
At this battle, on the Marne River in the spring of 1918 the germans were once more stopped short of Paris by the Allied Forces
This general led the American Expiditionary Force to France in 1917
General "Black Jack" Pershing
In the fall of 1918 this German Kaiser abdicated power
Wilhelm II
Social Democrats
This German Party was responsible for the Treaty of Versailles
5 terms of the Treaty of Versailles
1. League of Nations
2. Germans lost their Arm Forces
3. Alsacce & Lorraine
4. Saar Valley
5. Polish Corridor
3 European countries created as a result of World War 1 (WWI)
1. Turkey
2. Hungary
3. Yugoslavia
Authors of the Communist Manefesto
Marx & Engels
German Kaiser in 1871
Wilhelm I
Czar Liberator; assassinated in 1881
Alexander II
Queen Victoria
This Queen of England spread hemophilia to the royal families of Spain and Russia
Treaty of Portsmouth
this treaty ended the Russo-Japanese War
American President who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the Russo-Japanese War
Roosevelt
Trotsky
rival of Stalin; was assassinated in Mexico by communist angents sent by Stalin
two "super powers" that emerged from Word War II
1. USA
2. USSR
British Prime Minister who "coined" the term the "iron curtain"
Churchhill
Headquarters of the United Nations
New york
2 german concentration camps
1. Auschwitz
2. Treblinka
Genocide
term that describes the systematic extirmination of an entire people
the US dropped atomic bombs on these two Japanese cities to end World War II
1. Hiroshima
2. Nagasaki
Emporer Hirohito
Japanese emporer who remained on the throne after World War II
Manhattan Project
this project developed the atomic bomb in the United States
3 leaders who met at Potsdam Conference
1. Truman
2. Stalin
3. Churchhill
2 actions taken at Yalta
1. Stalin said he would help defeat he Japan after theyg ot out of the war
2. Put no limit on European expansion
Operation Overlord
code name for the attack on Normandy and France (June 6, 1944)
Rommel
German general "desert fox"
General Eisenhower
supreme commander of all Allied forces in the ETO
Keenan
member of the state department was responsible for the policy of "conatainment"
Nuremberg War Trials
Nazis were charged and executed for war crimes against humanity
4 zones Germany was divided into (1945)
1. France
2. USA
3. English
4. Soviet Union
3 "satellite states" controlled by Soviet Union
1. Czeckslovakia
2. Hungary
3. Poland
Marshall Plan
named after the American Secretary of State this plan pumped up billions of United States dollars to aid European recovery from WWII and perhaps saved Western Europe from a communist take-over.
1959 Fidel Castro forced this dictator into exile
Batista
Bay of Pigs
complete disaster; plan formed by CIA this invasion of Cuba was a humiliation to the United states.
This president oredered the Soviets to get their missiles out of Cuba in October in 1962
Kennedy
This doctrine, named after a president, promised millitary aid to countries fighting communist aggression
Truman Doctrine
Triple Alliance
1. Germany
2. Italy
3. Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
League of Nations was the idea of what president
Woodrow Wilson
Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated by who?
a Serb patriot
the last Russian Czar
Nicolas II
who wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
who did the Treaty of Versailles blame the war on?
germany
"Spirit of Locarno"
refers to peaceful cooperation between Germany and France
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Frued
The Nuremberg Laws did what?
prohibited Jews from holding government jobs in Germany
Josef Goebbels
Hitlers minister of propoganda
3 key nations of the western world as we entered the 20th century
1. Germany
2. Russia
3. USA
Why did Russia drop out of the war in 1918?
Communist Revolution
This Soviet leader ordered he death of the Czar and his family
Lenin
Hitler tried to seize power at this "putsch" in 1923
Munich Beerhall Putsch
This king gavce Mussolini power
Victor Emanuel II
Neutrality Acts
these acts tried to prevent the United States from getting involved in another European war by prohibiting the loaning of money or selling arms to nations at war
Gathering Storm
Winston Churchhill