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Europe and Latin America
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History
10th Grade
04/05/2006

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What is appeasment?
Definition
When you let somebody get away with something
Term
What did France and Britain allow Hitler to do in Austria?
Definition
Take over the country
Term
What did France and Britain allow Hitler to do in Czechoslovakia?
Definition
Took land from them
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What is a "nonagression pact"?
Definition
Where countries make an agreement that even if they are arguing not to use agression as to prevent wars and so on.
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Which country did Germany invade in 1939 to start World War 2?
Definition
Poland.
Term
Germany invaded _________ to start WW2?
Definition
Poland
Term
___________ invaded Poland to start WW2?
Definition
Germany
Term
Who were the Axis powers in WW2?
Definition
Germany and Italy
Term
What tactics were used in WW2?
Definition
Airplanes, lightning war
Term
Why did things look really bad for the Allies from mid 1940 to mid 1941?
Definition
France took over Russia, Britain fought Europed, US joined in
Term
What is the Holocaust?
Definition
Systematic murder of Jews
Term
How many Jews died in the holocaust?
Definition
6 million
Term
How many others died in the Holocaust?
Definition
5 million
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Who were some groups other than Jews prosecuted in the Holocaust?
Definition
gypsies, homosexuals, handicapped
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What was the Marshall Plan?
Definition
It was the European Recovery program, it rebuilt Europe after WW2
Term
Which countries were a part of the Soviet Bloc?
Definition
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania
Term
Who were some of the countries that were NATO allies?
Definition
US, Ukraine, France, Spain
Term
What were the dirrerences between life in Western Europe and Eastern Europe during the Cold War? In which part was life easier and why?
Definition
Life was easier in the west, because they had more freedom and better goods
Term
Which Eropean countries were not part of either bloc?
Definition
Eastern Europe right of Yugoslavia
Term
Joseph Stalin
Definition
started communism throughout Russia
Term
started communism througout Russia
Definition
Joseph Stalin
Term
Tito
Definition
started the partisans
Term
Started the partisans
Definition
Tito
Term
Mikhail Gorbachev
Definition
transformed the economy
Term
What were some of the onflicts in the 1990s involving the former Yugoslavia?
Definition
They had, like, 9 presidents, they didn't get along
Term
Haiti fought against what country to get independence?
Definition
France
Term
Who was a liberator os South America?
Definition
Simon Bolivar
Term
Who led the revolt in Mexico against Spanish rule?
Definition
Hedalgo
Term
Describe the US intervention in Panama in the early 1900s
Definition
It started the Spanish Amercan War
Term
Define the Cold War
Definition
The war between the US and USSR (Soveit union), had no weapons
Term
Iron Curtain
Definition
The curtain of countries involved in the soveit block
Term
mestizo
Definition
half indian, half white
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mulatto
Definition
half black, half white
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