Lesson 5, Quizzes, WHIST 1B – Flashcards
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A government where a select group of people exercises control is a ...
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Oligarchy. Argentina was an Oligarchy, ruled by a select group of large land owners.
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Who established the modern state of Iran in 1935?
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
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Who was the leader of the Chinese Nationalist Party after Sun Yat-sen?
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Chain Kai-shak
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"Great Soul"
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Mahatma. "Mahatma" was the title given to Mohandas Gandhi by the Indian People.
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Who was the leader of the movement that tried to make all Africans aware of their own cultural heritage?
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W.E.B Du Bois. Du Bois was an African American, educated at Harvard University.
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Who was cheered by Mexicans as the president who stood up to the United States?
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Lárazo Cárdenas
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What did Chiang Kai-shek regarded as "a disease of the heart" ?
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Communism (Communists)
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What promoted traditional Confucian values while rejecting excessive individualism of Western capitalism?
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The New Life Movement. The New Life Movement was set up by Chiang Kai-shek.
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The deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political or cultural group is ...
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Genocide
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What was the name of the Japanese extremist patriotic organization?
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The Black Dragon Society.
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After successfully establishing the Republic of Turkey, Kemal Atatürk ...
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introduced many reforms, most of which were continued even after his death.
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In November 1917, the ______ stated Britain's intention to make Palestine the national home of the Jews.
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Balfour Declaration
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Mohandas Gandhi protested British laws by ...
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Using methods of civil disobedience, that is, refusing to obey laws he considered to be unjust. For example, Mohandas Gandhi would tell people not to send their children to European schools, not pay their taxes, and to make the things they need by themselves without having to purchase it. This resulted in the Salt March.
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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese ...
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Launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
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What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
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The battle of Midway Island.
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Who administered the Nazi's Final Solution?
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Reinhard Heydrich
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When the Einsatzgruppen proved to be too slow for the Nazi's, they ...
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Gave up and focused their attention on the Soviet front.
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In order to address labor shortages during the war, Japan ...
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Forced workers to work double and sometimes even triple shifts
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At the Tehran Conference, Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill agreed ...
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to a partition of postwar Germany.
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At the Potsdam Conference, Truman demanded ____ throughout Eastern Europe
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Freely elected governments.
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The shifting of wealth from a rich minority to a poor majority is ...
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Redistribution of Wealth.
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Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party?
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Ho Chi Manh
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A large financial and industrial corporation in Japan ...
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Zaibatsu
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The unity of all black Africans, regardless of nation borders is ...
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Pan-Africanism
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Refusal to obey laws that are considered to be unjust is ...
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Civil Disobedience
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A policy of killing or forcibly removing an ethnic group from its lands is ...
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Ethnic Cleansing
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The use of unexpected maneuvers like sabotage and subterfuge to fight an enemy is ...
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Guerilla tactics.
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The period of political tension following the end of World War II was ...
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The Cold War
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The conference of the Big Three that decided the path the war would take, in particular the Allied invasion of France ...
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The Tehran Conference
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The conference of the Big Three that decided how Germany would be divided after the war was the ....
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The Yalta Conference
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A resistance fighter in World War II was a ...
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Partisan. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot by Italian partisans (two days after Hitler committed suicide)
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A swift and sudden military attack is a ...
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Blitzkrieg
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A suicide mission in which young Japanese pilots intentionally flew their planes into the U.S. fleet is a ...
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Kamikaze
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To eliminate or prohibit weapons, fortifications, and other military installations ...
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Demilitarize. Rhineland was a demilitarized zone in Germany, and Hitler sent troops there, even though it was in direct violation with the Treat of Versailles.
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A restriction intended to enforce international law is a ...
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Sanction. The United States warned japan that it would apply economic sanctions unless Japan withdrew from China and returned to its borders of 1931.
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Satisfying demands of dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability is ...
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Appeasement. Example: when the European powers appeased Germany when it sent troops into Rhineland in 1935, violating the Treaty of Versailles, and again at the Munich Conference when they met virtually all of Hitler's demands.
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What do you call a person who assists the enemy?
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A Collaborator.
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When did Japan attack the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii?
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1941
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When did World War II end? Who surrendered?
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World War II ended in 1945. Japan and Germany surrendered.
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Who led the People's Liberation Army on the Long March?
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Mao Zedong
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The Salt March was ...
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Mohandas Gandhi's march to the sea to protest new British taxes and restrictions on salt
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Chiang Kai-shek's "New Life Movement" was ..
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an attempt to promote traditional Confucian values while rejecting the excessive individualism of Western capitalism.
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Hitler demanded, and was given, ________ in northwestern Czechoslovakia.
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Sudetenland
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Great Britain's policy of ______ toward Germany was based on the belief that the satisfaction of reasonable demands would maintain peace in Europe.
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Appeasement
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The major offensive launched by the Luftwaffe in 1940 against the British Royal Air Force became known as the ...
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Battle of Britain
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The program to develop the first atomic weapon was known as the ________ and it was headed by J. Robert Oppenheimer.
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Manhattan Project.
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In a speech delivered to an American audience in 1946, former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stated that an _____ had "descended across the continent"
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Iron Curtain
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The Ottoman Empire came to an end when the Republic of Turkey was established by who?
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Kemal Atatürk.
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What was PEMEX and who set it up, and why?
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PEMEX was a national oil company set up by the Mexican government to run the oil industry.
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What was the name of the alliance Hitler formed with Benito Mussolini in 1936 called?
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The Rome-Berlin Axis
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Who were the Axis Powers in WWII?
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Germany, Japan, and Italy.
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Who were the Allied Powers in WWII?
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The United States, Great Britain, France, The Soviet Union (USSR), Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, and Yugoslavia.
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Which three major allies were in the Grand Alliance?
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The United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union.
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Who was Douglas MacArthur?
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U.S. general who commanded the Allied forces
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Who was Winston Churchill?
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Great Britain's wartime leader/hero, and former Prime Minister of Great Britain.
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Who was Harry S Truman?
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President of the United States after the death of Roosevelt. Harry S Truman made the decision to use atomic weapons to enable the United States and avoid an invasion of Japan.
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When was D-Day?
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June 6, 1944. when the Allies invaded western Europe.
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What was the primary goal of the SS and who was in charge?
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The SS, the "Shutzstaffel", originally served as Adolf Hitler's personal body guards. Led by Heinrich Himmler, the SS ran Nazi concentration camps, controlled the secret and regular police forces. Reinhard Heydrich was head of the SS's Security Service. Heydrich created special forces called the Einsatzgruppen to carry out Nazi plans which eventually meant rounding up Jews and killing them.
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What effects did the Balfour Declaration have on the Palestinian region?
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The attempt to create a homeland for the Jews in Palestine angered the Arabs. While Palestine had been the home of the Jews in antiquity, few had lived there for almost two thousand years. Arabs questioned how a national home for Jewish people could be established in a territory that was 98% Muslim. Nevertheless, the declaration drew thousands of Jewish settlers to Palestine as German persecution caused many to flee. Tensions increased between the new arrivals and the existing Muslim residents. Britain, fearing aroused Arab nationalism, halted Jewish immigration into Palestine, which eventually produced severe conflicts in the region that continue today.
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Explain the purpose of the Nazi Einsatzgruppen
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Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SS's Security Service, created the Einsatzgruppen ("Special Task Forces"). Their purpose was the administration of the Nazis' Final Solution, the extermination of the Jewish people. After the defeat of Poland, the Einsatzgruppen rounded up all Polish Jews and put them in ghettos, where living conditions were horrible. In June 1941, the Einsatzgruppen were given the new job of acting as mobile killing units. These SS death squads followed the regular army's advance east into the Soviet Union. Their job was to round up Jews, execute them, and bury them in mass graves. Although the Einsatzgruppen were responsible for killing an estimated one million Jews, they were too slow by Nazi standards, which led the Nazis to build the death camps.
