Exam review

4th nine week exam

Post War World, WWII and The Cold War

1. Most common government after World War I.

2. Who were the isolationists after World War I. What did they wish to do?

3. Axis powers

4. Allied powers

5. Wanted to overturn the Treaty of Versailles.

6. This marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

7. Why did Hitler wish to conquer Poland?

8. Kamikaze pilots… What was so interesting about them?

9. What was Hitler’s “Final Solution”?

10. Kristallnacht

11. Island Hopping

12. Truman Doctrine

13. Alliance made up of communist nations during the Cold War in Europe.

14. Superpowers

15. Cuban Missile Crisis

16. Ho Chi Minh

17. Fidel Castro

18. Domino theory

19. Hiroshima

20. Nagasaki

21. Nuremberg

22. Appeasement

23. Pacifism

24. Blitzkrieg

25. Black Shirts

26. Gulag

27. Gestapo

28. Totalitarian state

29. Alexander Fleming

30. League of Nations

31. What the League of Nations do when Manchuria was invaded by the Japanese?

32. Stalin’s Great purges

33. What type of government did Mussolini have?

34. How powerful was the U.S. economy in the 1920’s?

35. Marie Curie (Read about both Curie and Einstein)

36. Albert Einstein

37. Dawes Plan

38. Why did France occupy the Ruhr valley?

39. Term used by Stalin for making Soviet culture more Russian.

40. Main characteristic of fascism

41. Depression relief package instituted by Roosevelt.

42. Why was the German air force of little use during D-Day?

43. Battle of the Bulge

44. Ghettos

45. Nazi-Soviet Pact (What did it do for both sides?)

46. Versailles treaty specifics (In particular how did it affect Germany?)

47. Why was it difficult to be among Stalin’s elite in the Soviet Union?

48. What did “Rosie the Riveter” symbolize?

49. Why did Japan attack the United States in 1941?

50. Munich Conference?

51. Invaded Ethiopia in 1935.

52. Truman Doctrine (Be specific.)

53. What were Stalin’s goals for Eastern Europe after World War II?

54. Explain “Operation Sea Lion” Be specific

55. Dunkirk (Importance)

56. How did the Soviet Union react to Germany’s invasion of Poland?

57. Battle of El Alamein

58. What action did the allies take after World War II that caused the Soviet Union to tighten control on Eastern Germany?

59. What were the factors that led to Truman deciding to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?

60. Manhattan project

61. How did the Russians stop the German advance into their country?

62. Top priority of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin decided upon in 1942.

63. SALT treaty

64. Warsaw Pact

65. NATO

66. Cold War

67. What made the cold war so terrifying?

68. Marshall plan

69. Korean War

70. What happened to the Chinese Nationalists in China after they were defeated by the communists?

71. Red Scare

72. How did women’s lives change during World War II?

73. What happened to Americans of Japanese American descent during WWII in the United States?

74. Free market economy

75. Command economy

76. Glasnost

77. Mikhail Gorbachev

78. Containment policy

79. This was often called the Soviet Union’s Vietnam.

80. Goal of the Viet Cong?

81. Government in Japan after WWII.

82. Movement of Americans outside of cities after WWII.

83. Détente

84. What were the results of the United States dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

85. Berlin Airlift