History Test 3

Front 1

Bloody Sunday

Back 1

-Catalyst to revoultion
-January 22, 1905(1000 people die)
-peaceful demonstrators marching to petition Tsar Nicholas II were gunned down by the imperial guard.

Front 2

Treaty of Bret-Litvosk

Back 2

-Signed 3 March 1918
-Territory ceded to Germany and Austria: Finland, Ukraine, and Poland…
-Russia loses: 30% of her population, 50% of her heavy industry, 90% of her coal mines
-treaty between russia and central powers which marked russias exit from the war

Front 3

NEP

Back 3

-Introduced march 1921
-Permits limited enterprise, Except in key industries
-Gains support for Lenin
-Business flourishes, but almost no consumer goods produced
-By 1927, the NEP restores USSR to 1913 production levels
-Politburo are not happy with NEP

Front 4

Dekulakization

Back 4

Soviet campaign of political repressions, including arrests, deportations, and executions of millions of the better-off peasants and their families in 1929-1932

Front 5

Squadristi

Back 5

-Mussolinis secret police
-Fascist paramilitary groups in Italy during the period immediately following World War I and until the end of World War II

Front 6

March on Rome

Back 6

-was a march by which Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's National Fascist Party (Partito Nazionale Fascista, or PNF) came to power in the Kingdom of Italy (Regno d'Italia). The march took place from October 22 to October 29, 1922.

Front 7

Beer Hall Putsch

Back 7

--November 9, 1923 Beer hall Putsch starts in Bavaria, try to gain supporters and then plan to march to Berlin and take over the government but does not work
-failed attemp at revolution

Front 8

Blut und Boden

Back 8

-celebrates the relationship of a people to the land they occupy and cultivate, and it places a high value on the virtues of rural living

Front 9

Gestapo

Back 9

nazi secret police

Front 10

League of Nations

Back 10

-Hitler claimed these clauses violated Germany's sovereignty. Germany withdrew from the League, soon to be followed by many other aggressive powers. The onset of World War II showed that the League had failed its primary purpose, which was to avoid any future world war. The United Nations replaced it after the end of the war and inherited a number of agencies and organizations founded by the League.

Front 11

Ribbontrope/Molotov Pact

Back 11

non-aggression pact under which the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany each pledged to remain neutral in the event that either nation were attacked by a third party

Front 12

Operation Dynamo

Back 12

-300,000 allied troops evacuated from beaches and harbor in Dunkirk, France.

Front 13

Battle of Britain

Back 13

name given to the Second World War air campaign waged by the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) against the United Kingdom during the summer and autumn of 1940. The objective of the campaign was to gain air superiority over the Royal Air Force (RAF), especially Fighter Command.

Front 14

Battle of Stalingrad

Back 14

major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in southwestern Russia. The battle took place between 23 August 1942 and 2 February 1943[9] and was among the largest on the Eastern Front, and was marked by its brutality and disregard for military and civilian casualties. It was amongst the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare with the higher estimates of combined casualties amounting to nearly two million deaths.

Front 15

Kristallnacht

Back 15

The trigger of the attacks was the assassination of German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a German-born Polish Jew in Paris, France. Kristallnacht was followed by further economic and political persecution of Jews, and is viewed by historians as part of Nazi Germany's broader racial policy, and the beginning of the Final Solution and the Holocaust

Front 16

Nuremberg Laws

Back 16

were antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany introduced at the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. After the takeover of power in 1933 by Hitler, Nazism became an official ideology incorporating scientific racism and antisemitism. There was a rapid growth in German legislation directed at Jews.

Front 17

Wannsee Conference

Back 17

meeting of senior officials of the Nazi German regime, held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942. The purpose of the conference was to inform administrative leaders of Departments responsible for various policies relating to Jews, that Reinhard Heydrich had been appointed as the chief executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question".

Front 18

Babi Yar

Back 18

ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kiev and a site of a series of massacres carried out by the Nazis during their campaign against the Soviet Union.

Front 19

Marshall Plan

Back 19

large-scale economic American program of cash grants to Europe (with no repayment), 1947–1951. The goal of the United States was rebuilding a war-devastated region, removing trade barriers, modernizing industry, and making Europe prosperous again

Front 20

Berlin Airlift

Back 20

first major international crises of the Cold War and the first resulting in casualties. During the multinational occupation of post-World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway and road access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city.