World History since the Renaissance Sem 2 Unit 2 – Flashcards
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What was the strongest country during the Age of Imperialism?
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Britain
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Which countries competed for colonies?
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Britain, US, Germany, France, and Italy
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how did nationalism contribute to WW I
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ethnic groups saw their own nationality as superior to others
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how did militarism contribute to the outbreak of WW I
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militarism encouraged an arms race
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why did submarine warfare push the US into the war
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American citizens died when German submarines sank European ships
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what was the Schlieffen Plan
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Germany's offensive through Belgium and into France
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Who was allied with Germany during WW I
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Austria-Hungary
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what was part of France's goal after WW I
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taking Germany's colonies
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what was a direct effect of WW I on America
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women gained the right to vote
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what was one purpose of propaganda
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to unite a nation toward the war effort
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poison gas
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used on the western front in WW I
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how did the map of Europe differ after the Treaty of Versailles
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Turkey was created
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what is an accurate description of the November Bolshevik Revolution
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short and bloodless
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what accurately describes the White Army
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hoped to create a military dictatorship
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what describes Vladimir Lenin's New Economic Policy
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a mix of capitalism and Communism
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which ideology is least like the system established by Joseph Stalin
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mercantilism
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why did the Allied forces get involved in the Russian Civil War
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they hoped to prevent Communism from taking hold
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what was Lenin's wartime agricultural policy
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to take away land with no compensation
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what best describes the Red Army
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had the support of the peasants
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what led most directly to the establishment of the Provisional Government (in Russia)
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famine and war
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Joseph Stalin changed Russia into what kind of state
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totalitarian
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what best describes Joseph Stalin's economic policies
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collective agriculture
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in which country was the new Jewish homeland established
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Palestine
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what best describes Gandhi's tactic of noncooperation
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a nonviolent resistance
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what was a major cause of the Mexican Revolution
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the dictatorial rule of Porfirio Diaz
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what did Iran do to become more Westernized
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it broke up various tribes
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what did the League of Nations mandates do in the Middle East
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they put the British in charge of Iraq
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what might have weakened the Great Depression
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more international trade
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what did France do during the Great Depression
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set strong trade barriers
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what describes Britain's methods of fighting the Great Depression
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implemented public works programs
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what is a way that the economies of the US and Britain were linked before the Great Depression
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Britain owed money to the US from WW I
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who were the Central Powers in WW I
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Italy, Germany, Austria-Hungary
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what was the new international group that was created after WW I to help keep the peace
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the League of Nations
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whose assassination is believed to be the immediate cause of WW I
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria
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Balfour Declaration
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a British promise to provide the Jews with their own homeland
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who would you describe Ghandi's methods of noncooperation
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peaceful noncooperation with unjust laws
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how did Mexico change as a result of the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s
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the educational system was improved
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what were some of the new weapons developed during WW I
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repeating machine gun poison gas grenades armored tanks
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what was the basis of the US Good Neighbor policy
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creating mutual understanding between the US and Latin America
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what disease killed an estimated 20 million people worldwide during WW I
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influenza
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what were some of the causes of WW I
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increasing militarism the Alliance system increasing nationalism
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which country was created as a result of the peace treaty after WW I
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Turkey
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what was the result of new weapons technology during WW I
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increase in the number of casualties on all sides
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a German ship of war that went under the water's surface was called
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U-boat
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what describes the economy of Germany during the global Great Depression
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full employment but low wages
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New Deal
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increasing regulation of business and industry attempting to protect workers' rights attempting to create more jobs
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which country did Germany try to ally with against the US
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Mexico
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writers of the most powerful empire in the Age of Imperialism liked to say that
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the sun never sets on the British Empire
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who was the leader of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution
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Vladimir Lenin
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at the end of WW I, which country was blamed for causing it
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Germany
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general characteristics of economic depression
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banks are going out of business companies are laying off lots of workers people are losing confidence in the economy
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who was the American president during WW I
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Woodrow Wilson
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Great Migration
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the movement of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the farms of the South to the industrial cities of the North in the early 1900s
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at the end of the Russian Revolution, Joesph Stalin led what kind of a government
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Totalitarian
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which groups of people were imprisoned or executed by Joseph Stalin
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the Red Army the Kulaks Stalin's political opponents
