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AP world history
chapters 29 and 30 stearns
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10th Grade
04/05/2011

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After the war there was _________ followed by_____in western nations.
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economic chaos; prosperity
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What two things led to consumerism?
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mass production and innovative techonology
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_____led to consumerism and mass consumption.
Definition
adverstising agencies
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What right to women get after the war?
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the right to vote
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What is a flapper girl?
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drinks, smokes, goes to dance clubs
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Is the "new woman" true or false?
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false
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What were some examples of the united states exporting their culture?
Definition
jazz, film and dances
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What happened in the 1930s?
Definition
worldwide global depression
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What caused the great depression? 
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international debt cycle, over speculation, overproduction, and under consumption
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What are three types of authoritarian responses to the chaos of the post World War I world?
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fascism, nazism, and russian communism
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What six places had authoritarian regimes?
Definition
germany, italy, japan, spain, russia, eastern europe
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Totalitarian regimes emphasize the ____over the individual, engage in excessive______, and suppress ____.
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state; nationalism; civil rights
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What four causes of fascism as a political movement?
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nationalism, totalitarianism, expansionistic, xenophobic
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Who was Benito Mussolini and what did he do?
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he was a journalist, a WWI soldier, and a former socialist; formed teh fascist party in Italy
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Who were teh Black Shirts and what did they do?
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an army of the fascist party; attacked rival political groups and leaders
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Fascism includes both_____and ____.
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nazism and italian fascism
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How did Hitler rise to power?
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he attacked parliamentary democracy and argued for a strong state unified by militarism and nationlism; he promised to reurn to more traditional ways
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What does it mean "hitler undoes the treaty of versailles?
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he was able to ignore the requirements of the treaty and rebuild the german nation and its war machine
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In order the "undo the treaty of versailles" and rebuild germany what does hitler do?
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takes over sudetenland, remilitarizes rhineland, annexes austria, takes czechoslovakia, eastern europe, etc.
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What marks the beginning of world war II?
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in septermber 1939 hitler inades poland and russia
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What were the main causes of world war II?
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military expansion by the axis powers, germany, japan and italy
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What encouraged the axis' powers military expansion?
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western policy of appeasment
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Who do the nazis blame for germany's defeat in world war I?
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the jews and and politicians of weimar republic
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Who invaded Ethiopia
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Italy
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______are the large industrial combines with clsoe ties to the state, allowed industrialization to proceed at a rapid pace.
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zaibatsu
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What are some reasons for Japanese militarism?
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overpopulation, scarcity of natural resources, desire to control pacific rim
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Who is in power in Japan by 1931?
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general tojo and military
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Who did Japan invade in 1931? What does this nation become?
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manchuria; becomes manchukao
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Japan views itself as ______in a colonial sense.
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china's protector
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What happened in 1937?
Definition
the rape of nanjing 
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The russian revolution was a _____response.
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totalitarian
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What was said in the treaty of brest litovsk?
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the bolsheviks gave up a huge section of russia in return for ceasefire
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Who wins Stlin vs. Trotsky?
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salin
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IN the red vs. White civil war, who represented the reds and the whites?
Definition
the reds were the communist bolsheviks and the whites were the modereates/westerns
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How did Lenin react to the elections of 1917? 
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he ignored them and put in a bolshevik monopoly
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What is the USSR?
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the union of soviet socialist republics
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During the first revolution of russia the czar was abdicated, what did this end?
Definition
the 300 year old dynasty
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What does Stalin put in place of teh old bolsheviks?
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authoritarian regime
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______ was a caudillo and he had ruled mexico as a dictator with an iron fist and an effective political machine since 1876 and was firmly in place.
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porfirio diaz
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Who challenges Diaz in the election? Who "wins'?
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madero; the election was rigged in diaz's favor
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Pancho villa led a bandito revolt. what is this?
Definition
peasant and working classes
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______imposed a diaz-like military dictaorship supported by the large landowners, the army, and foreign investors.
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victoriano huerta
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Whehen was the mexican civil war? When was the constitution?
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1910-1920; 1917
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What does PRI stand for?
Definition
party of the inditutionalized revolution 
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What did the PRI strive to do?
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to become a one party system of all the revolutionary leaders
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What happens in 1911 in China?
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the emperor abdicates
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What did the intellectual elite sun Yat sen try to do?
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to form a republican government
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When and why does Sun yat sen's attempt to form a republican government fail?
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fails by 1914 as a reult of the warlords and failure to gain a centralized government
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Japan issues ____demands and rules China as a _____during wolrd war I.
Definition
21; protectorate
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After world war I, who returns and what to do they want to do?
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sun yat sen; reestablish government
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Mao Zedong was a _____that developed the theory of_____that has Chinese peasants as the basis for government.
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peasant; communism
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What is the name for the nationlist party in China? Who leads it?
Definition
guomindang; chian kai shek
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The nationlist party of china was anti______and supported by the____.
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communist; west
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When was the Chinese civil war?
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1927 to 1949
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After WWII what two things do the communist do?
Definition
defeat nationalists and drive the nationlists to formosa (taiwan)
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The west recognize taiwan as____until the 1970s when it begins to recgonize the "people's republic of china" as ____.
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china (both)
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In September of 1939, Hitler attacks_____. Who declares war?
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poland; britain and france
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_____was a phony war.
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blitzkreig
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From March to June of 1940, Germany attacks what two places and begins to attack what two? Who surrendeds by june of 1940?
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denmark, norway; netherlands, and belgium; france
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Who was not attacked by germany?
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russia, britain, sweden, and spain
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What was the blitz?
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bombing attacks on britain in august and september of 1940 but hitler gives up and begins to march towards russia
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What was teh turning point for World war II on eastern front of european theatre?
Definition
battle of stalingrad
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Who were the victims of teh holocaust?
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jews, gypsies, slavs, serbiaans, russian prisoners of war, homosexuals, and mentally disabled
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HOw many jews were killed in the holocaust?
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six million
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What and when were the two US neutrality acts?
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1935- cash and carry; 1937-lend and lease
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What does Nazi stand for?
Definition
national german worker socialist party
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What two major events happend at the end of 1941?
Definition
bombing of pearl harbor; the US enters the war
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Who invaded who in the D-day operation? What is the d-day operation known for?
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allies reinvaded france; being the largest invasion in the history of the world
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What four zones was germany divided into?
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US Britain and France will become western germany; soviet zone will become eastern germany
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Who wins the race toward berlin
Definition
russia
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