3rd Quarter Final Review

Post WWI

• Authors Ernest ________________ and F. Scott _______________ are identified with the ______ generation. (p. 464)– Hemingway– Fitzgerald– Lost

Totalitarians • Il Duce was the title ____________ _______________.

– Benito Mussolini

• Appealing to _________________ pride was one way fascist leaders in the 1920’sand 1930’s gained popular____________________. – national– support

• The _________ blamed most of Germany’s pre-World War II social and economic problems on _______ and the _______________. (pp. 478-79)– Nazis– Jews– Communist

• Both the Italian ____________ and the German Nazis used _________ tactics against political ____________ to gain power. – fascist– violent– opponents

Totalitarians

• Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, and Stalin’s Russia were all ______________ governments, used ______________ to get rid of opponents, expanded their ____________, but were not __________________, or communist– totalitarian– Violence– Borders – Marxist

WWII Starts

• The British and French decision to give into Hitler’s aggression was the policy of ___________________. – appeasement

• To avoid fighting on two ___________ and to invade _____________ unopposed Hitler signed a ________________ treaty with Stalin on the eve of World War II.– Fronts– Poland– Nonaggression

• In 1939, France and Great Britain declared war on Germany as a direct result of Germany’s invasion of _______________. – Poland

WWII• The German military strategy that depended on surprise and

overwhelming force was called ________________. – Blitzkrieg

• The Battle of _______________ demonstrated that Hitler’s advances could be ____________. – Britain– halted / stopped

• President _________ agreed to use the atomic bomb to save the lives of_______________ and bring the war to a ___________ end.– Truman– Americans – quick

• The Battle of Midway was significant because it turned the tide of war in favor of ________________________. – The Allies

Holocaust • The attack on Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues, called• ___________________ demonstrated the persecution Jews would face

from the Nazis. – Kristallnacht

• The goal of Hitler’s _________ ____________ was the ________ of Jews and other people the Nazis considered _______________. – Final Solution– genocide– Inferior

• The Holocaust and Hitler’s Final Solution are related because the _____________is the term for the genocide that resulted for the ________ _______________.– Holocaust– Final Solution

Effects of WWII• The __________ ___________ suffered the highest civilian and military

casualties because it was invaded and partially occupied during World War II.– Soviets

• The _______________ Trials were held to hold the Axis powers responsible for the ____________________. – Nuremburg – Holocaust

• Poland,________________, Hungary, and ____________ became satellites of the Soviet Union because they were ______________ by the Soviets at the end of WWII. – Czechoslovakia – Romania

• The economic recovery of Japan following World war II focused primarily on• developing ________________ and an _________________ economy.

– industry – exports

• One outcome of World War II was the emergence of the Soviet Union as an international ________________.– superpower

Start of the Cold War• One major purpose of the Yalta Conference in 1945 was to decide how to

restructure _________________ after the war.– Europe

• The ______________ ______________ was established after WWII by the US and Soviet Union along with 48 other nations created this agency to protect members against aggression and keep_____________.– United Nations– Peace

• Winston Churchill described the division between a mostly democratic _________ Europe and a Communist Eastern _________ as an ______ ________.– Western– Europe– Iron Curtain

• Competition for ______________ influence over other countries was a primary cause of the _______ War between the _______________ and ______________.– Political – Cold– United States – Soviet Union

The ________ _______ was a conflict over political differences, between the United States and the Soviet Union, carried on by everything except _________________ action or war.– Cold War

Superpowers

• One major goal of the Soviet Union during the early years of the Cold War was to create a defensive _____________ zone in ________________ Europe. – Buffer /safety– Eastern

• The ____________ Pact was developed in 1955 as a response to the ___________ ______________ ______________ _________________, or NATO.– Warsaw– North Atlantic Treaty Organization

U.S. Cold War Policy• _____________________ was the Cold War policy that attempted

to prevent the spread of communism by blocking Soviet Influence.– Containment

• When the United States sent military aid to nations resisting _________________, it was continuing the foreign policy first asserted in the _______________ doctrine. – Communism– Truman

• _________ _____________ crisis brought the Soviet Union and the US to the brink of ____________ war in 1962.– Cuban Missile Crisis – nuclear

Cold War Hotspots • American general _______________ ______________ called for

nuclear attacks on China during the ____________ War. He was removed from office as a result of this.– Douglas MacArthur – Korean

• The _____________________ was the border of North and South Korea at the beginning of the Korean War.– 38th Parallel

• The Vietnamese rebel leader _____________________ revolted against the _____________ in Vietnam. He used the ___________________ party to achieve his goals and take control over the nation.– Ho Chi Minh– French– Communist

Fall of Communism • ___________ decreased censorship, released ____________ , and allowed the

_______________ to be criticized. – glasnost– dissidents– government

• _________________ revived the Soviet economy. – perestroika

• ________ and _______ Germany unified as a result of the fall of __________________.– East– West– Communism

• when Bosnian Serbs used violence to rid __________ of its ____________ it was a form of ethnic ________________.– Bosnia– Muslims – Cleansing