(H) Modern World History Final Exam Study Guide Flashcards

It is the glorification of the military.

It is the spreading of ideas to promote a certain cause or to damage an opposing cause.

He was the Archduke of Austria who's assassination set off World War II.

The reason for the destructiveness in war in WWI was that there were new, more deadly weapons that were made.

It was the treaty that marked the end of Russia's involvement in World War I.

International tensions were caused by M.A.I.N. (militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism).

The intention of the alliances during World War I was to make the sides more powerful, so they could possibly win the war.

The assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand was the start of World War I.

The British declaration of war was after Germany invaded Belgium.

Lenin's promises for Russia were "Peace, Land, and Bread!"

The outcomes of the Treaty of Versailles were that the Allies gained land, but many countries such as Japan, Italy, Russia, and Germany held resentment toward them because they felt they didn't get as much land as they should have. The League of Nations was also created.

The total cost was 186.3 billion dollars.

Vladmir Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik party, a revolutionary, he spread Marxist ideas, and he was exiled and then brought back to run the country by Germany.

It was an economy which government officials make all basic economic decisions.

He was the leader of Russia, who relied on secret police and other enforcers to impose his will. He went to the war front and left the country to Czarina Alexandra to run, but this was disastrous. He failed to solve Russia, basic political, social, and economic problems. He abdicated in 1917 after the March Revolution.

It was a government that regulates every aspect of its citizen's rights.

Rasputin was a self-proclaimed "holy man" but he was an illiterate peasant who gave advice to Czarina Alexandra about how to run the country. Several attempts to kill him didn't work, and he died by drowning (by nobles) on December 29th, 1916.

They were a council of workers and soldiers set up by revolutionary leaders.

It was the communist secret police.

Joseph Stalin was the leader of the Soviet Union who used ruthless measures to control the Soviet Union and its people.

It was when Stalin set up "show trials" where former communist leaders confessed to crimes and being tortured and sent to the Gulag. At least 4 million people were purged during Stalin's years.

It was the N.E.P.

Stalin's goals as a leader were to make Russia a stable country that could sustain itself and prosper.

At least 4 million people were purged during the Stalin years.

Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) was also referred to as the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom (a series of coordinated attacks) against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and parts of Austria carried out by SA paramilitary and civilians. German authorities looked on without intervening. The attacks left the streets covered with broken glass from the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues.

The Gestapo was the secret police of Nazi Germany.

The Fascist party was the type of government that ran Italy pre-world war II.

Hitler's book on what he was going to do with Germany.

The Third Reich was also known as Nazi Germany.

The attraction of socialism was that it was a way to make the country very, very stable without taking away all of the rights of the people.

Japan was interested in Manchuria because it was very mineral rich.

The slogan of fascism that was glorified was "war is to the male what childbearing is to the female."

Youth in Italy were taught to love Fascism.

The common factors in Fascism and Communism were that they both had total control over the people, and they both had total economic control over the people.

Fascism was appealing because it seemed to avoid the messiness of socialism and communism.

The promises by Hitler pre-WW2 were to make Germany great again, solve unemplyment by making more public service jobs, abolish the treaty of Versailles.

The response by the League of Nations to Italy and Japan's aggressiveness were that they did not approve, but they could not do anything to stop it.

The reason Hitler signed the non-aggression pact with Russia was that he wanted to end fighting a two-front war.

We were supplying parts and artillery to the Allied Powers (Britain), but then we got involved after the U-Boat attacks.

They declared war because Poland was invaded.

"Iightning war," or war conducted with great speed and force; specifically : a violent surprise offensive by massed air forces and mechanized ground forces in close coordination.

The Holocaust was Hitler's form of killing all of the people who he deemed not the same as him. Millions of people were killed in this great massacre.

Kamikazes were Japanese pilots in World War II trained to make a suicidal attack.

It was the Victory in Europe Day when the Allies formally accepted Nazi Germany stepping down. (May 7th, 1945)

They were the places where the atomic bombs were dropped by the US in Japan.

It was the alliance of the Eastern European nations to almost balance the NATO (which the Allied nations had been a part of)

It was the policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union during the mid-1980s.

Glasnost was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.

It is the deliberate use of random violence to achieve political goals.

He was the leader of the Soviet Union who pushed the idea of de-stalinization, he freed political prisoners, eased censorship, and the Cuban missiles were implanted.

He was the leader of the Soviet Union who suppressed dissidents, he built the military up to be very large, he returned to Stalin's ways, became a part of the Space Race, and he put the policy of detente with the US in place.

He was the leader of the Soviet Union who sought an end to costly Cold War tensions. He renounced the Brezhnev Doctrine, signed arms control treaties with the US, and pulled troops from Afghanistan.

They wanted to prove that they were the biggest and best countries in the world.

It was an organization to settle disputes and intervene in matter of human rights issues.

The Berlin Wall was built to keep the East Germans (in Berlin) from leaving and going to West Berlin (West Germany).

The reason to end to Cold War was the end of communism in 1991 with Gorbachev's resignation.

It was very poor.

The problem with communism was that it had too much of a hold over the people, the economy sometimes didn't prosper well, and since the people revolted, communism failed.

Yeltsin's solutions were (did not find the answer yet).

The Soviet Bloc countries were the present day countries of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhastan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kirghiz, Tajikistan.

The effect of the Cold War in Europe was that it heightened tensions and relationships between all of the countries.

The countries didn't know what to do, so they were failing for a short time until they got up on their feet.

There were so many different ethnicities that they basically just clashed together.

North Korea invaded South Korea in hopes of making one big unified nation.

If one country would fall to communism, then another and another would fall.

It was Pol Pot's cambodian guerilla forces.

The Fall of Saigon was when the North Vietnamese troops finally tok over the south and Vietnam became one unified communist country.

There basically no relations between the US & Vietnam in the 80's.

The Salt March was Gandhi's peaceful protests to show that the people could collect their own salt for their own means rather than being taxed by Britian.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

There was ethnic tension in India between the Muslims, the Hindus, and the Sikhs.

Bangladesh ceded from Pakistan in the 1970's after a war to gain its independence.

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent.

They were the "dirty people" in society in India.

It was the separation of India based upon the beliefs of the people. This lead to the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India became itself!

It is the organization of Arab States in the Middle East, and in North and Northwest Africa. It has 22 members today.

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Kurds are an Iranic people native to West Asia, mostly inhabiting a region known as Kurdistan, which includes adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey.

They were authoritarian governments.

There were many modernizations in the Middle East, such as the development of water going through the cities, technology being implanted.

The PLO, or Palestine Liberation Organization, is a political and paramilitary organization which was created in 1964. It is recognized as the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the United Nations and over 100 states with which it holds diplomatic relations, and has enjoyed observer status at the United Nations since 1974.

The two Palestinian parties whom have been fighting for a long time in the Palestinian Civil War.