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 ) – 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 – 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. – 38 th 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