| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Wealthy peasants who resisted Stalin's policies | kulaks |
| Hitler given these border lands in Czechoslovakia | Sudentenland |
| king who appointed Mussolini PM | Victor Emmanuael |
| Name of Germany before Hitler's rise to power | Weimar Republic |
| Famous Bolshevik exiled by Stalin | Trostsky |
| Stalinist policy that created state-owned farms | Collectivism (part of the Five-Year Plan) |
| One key fascist idea | no tolerance for oppposition / Strong central government / State (not individual) has power |
| Hitler attacked this policy | Versailles |
| Mussolini's forces attacked this African country | Etheopia |
| American president who promoted "New Deal" policies | Roosevelt |
| Spanish artist who painted Guernica | Picasso |
| Neville Chamberlain | Appeasement with Hitler and prime minister Great Britain. Thinks he avoided war with Hitler. |
| Haile Selasse | emperor of Ethiopia forced into exile by Mussolini |
| Desert_Fox | German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944) |
| last german offensive | describe the battle of the bulge |
| Hirohito | Who was the Japanese emperor during WWII? |
| work on the atomic bomb | what was the manhattan project |
| lines of obstacles along the french german border | What was the Maginot line |
| Germany Italy Japan | The Three axis powers the US fought in WWII |
| Stalin created this system of prison camps | Gulags |
| Nazi secret police | Gestapo |
| Spanish fascist party, supported Franco | Falnage |
| U.S. adopted this foreign policy after WWI | Isolationism |
| Nazi paramilitary force, supported Hitler | SS |
| The Beer Hall Putsch took place in this German city | Munich |
| Leader of the S.S. | Himler |
| President of the U.S. in 1929 | Hoover |
| Former WWI general, later president of Germany | Busevsheef |
| Hitler assumed dictatorial powers after this event | Burning of the Reichstag building |
| He eliminated the Old Bolsheviks in the Great Purge | Stalin |
| Defeated in the Spanish Civil War | Spain |
| He died in 1924 and was succeeded by Stalin | Lenin |
| Mussolini's economic policy | laissez-faire capitalism |
| Persecuted during "Kristallnacht" | Jews |
| Propaganda minister in Nazi Germany | Dr. Goebbels |
| Union between Austria and Nazi Germany | Anschluss (?) |
| Year of the Wall Street Crash | 1929 |
| One goal of Stalin's "Five Year Plans" | Industrialize Russia |
| Organization of the former British colonies | x |
| The practice of religion was outlawed in this country | x |
| WWII began with the invasion of this country | Poland |
| Hitler gained territory following this diplomatic conference | Munich Conference |
| Turning point of the Pacific Campaign | Battle of Midway |
| British troops were evacuated from this location in 1940 | Dunkirk |
| He referred to Pearl Harbor as a "date which will live in infamy" | Roosevelt |
| Admiral Nimitz is associated with this strategy | amphibious assaults |
| He ruled Vichy France during WWII | Petain |
| The country's cities were bombed during the "Blitz" | England (cities were London, Coventry, Plymouth, and Liverpool) |
| This Soviet general was victorious at Stalingrad | Rodimtsev |
| The United Nations Charter was signed inthis city | San Francisco |
| Famous American general who said "I shall return" | McArthur |
| He led the "Free French" during WWII | de Gaulle |
| President who decied to use the atomic bomb | Truman |
| The U.S.S. Missouri was the location for this | Japanese Surrender |
| Led the British Eight Army in North Africa | Alexander |
| Code name for the invasion of the Soviet Union | Operation Barbarossa |
| They fough against Nazi occupation | Lithuania |
| Japanese suicide pilots | Kamikaze |
| Date for the D.Day invasion at Normandy | June 6, 1944 |
| This country was partitioned following the Nazi/Soviet Pact | Poland |
| Nazi war criminals were put on trial in this German city | Nuremberg |
| Program of U.S. aid to great Britain | Lend-Lease |
| Supreme Allied Commander for the D.Day invasion | Eisenhower |
| The Suez Canal was secured following this North African battle | Tobruk |
| The "Phoney War" referred to this | Britain got ready for war |
| Soviet city, withstood three year seige | x |
| Area of Germany remilitarized in 1936 | Rhineland/Rhine Province |
| Two western European countries, members of the Security Council | x |
| Top Nazi, commander of the German Luftwaffe | Herman Goring |
| Following the Allied invasion of Italy, he was overthrown | Mussolini |
| Yugoslav leader, he opposed Stalin | Tito |
| Military alliance in eastern Europe | Warsaw Pact |
| U.S. containment policy, also known as _____ | Truman Doctine |
| This program greatly assisted European economic recovery | x |
| His "Iron Curtain" speech greatly influenced American policy | Churchill |
| The Berlin Airlift was a response to this Soviet move | land and water blockade |
| First man in space | Yuri Gargarin |
| First American on the moon | Neil Armstrong |
| Pilot of U2 spy plane | Francis Gary Powers |
| U.S President for much of the 1950's | Eisenhower |
| Capital of East Germany (GDR) | East berlin |
| Capital of West Germany (Federal Republic) | Bonn |
| Soviet leader, he promoted a policy of "peaceful coexistence" | Kruschchev |
| Famous for his reforms of "perestroika" and "glasnost" | Gorbachev |
| The "Velvet Revolution" led to democracy in this country | Czechoslovakia |
| Soviet scientist, he criticized communist policies | x |
| First chancellor of a reunited Germany | Helmut Kohl |
| Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, led to his removal | Brezhnev |
| Event associated with Chernobyl in the 1980's | Explosion of nuclear facility in Kiev |
| Policy of "detente" encouraged | President Nixon, between the US and Soviet Union |
| Kennedy's strategy to handle the Cuban Missile Crisis | removed missiles from Turkey |
| Charles de Gualle granted this North African country independence | Algiers |
| Following collapse of communism, civil war broke out in this country | Bosnia |
| This paramilitary group fought to achieve Irish unity | IRA |
| The battle of Dien Bien Phu took place inthis Asian country | Vietnam |
| She was known as the "Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher |
| Providing peacekeeping troops is a function of this UN body | security council |
| Polish general, | Lex Valenca |
| Argentina initiated a war to retake these islands | Falkland |
| This policy sought to justify Soviet intervention | Domino Theory |
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