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World History Final
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68
History
10th Grade
05/25/2011

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Black Hand
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Secret Serbian organization
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Great Britain, U.S., Soviet Union, France
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Name the Allied Powers (4):
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy
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Name the Central Powers (3):
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Soviets
Definition
Councils composed of representatives from the workers and soldiers
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Bolsheviks
Definition
overthrew German government during WWI; renamed themselves communists; led by V.I. Lenin
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Cheka
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Red secret police
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Militarism
Definition
build up of weapons and ammunition
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Mobilization
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assembling troops and supplies
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Schieffen Plan
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Germany's plan of attack by fighting a two front war with Russia and France; rapid invasion of France by moving through Belgium
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Treaty of Versailles
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Final peace settlement of Paris made up of five separate treaties with the defeated nations of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, and Turkey. Germans thought it was a harsh treaty
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Italy
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Nation that switched sides and betrayed Germany and Austria
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War Guilt Clause
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Why was Germany unhappy with order 231?
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Great Britain received a mandate
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What country ruled Iraq and Palestine?
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President Woodrow Wilson
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Who outlined his 14 points for peace; The heart of the program was the League of Nations of which the U.S. never became a member
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Sarajevo, Bosnia
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The assassination of the Archduke took place in
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Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
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What caused the U.S. to enter WWI?
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Mahatma Ghandi
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Indian leader who used non-violent protest against British rule
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V.I. Lenin
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Who led the communists?
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Reza Shah Phlavi
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Who was the leader of Iran?
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Chiang Kai-shek
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Who was the communist leader of China of the Nationalist Party?
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W.E.B Du Bois
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African American educated at Harvard and leader of a movement to make all Africans aware of their cultural heritage
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Redistribution of Health
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Shifting of wealth from a rich minority to a poor majority
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Marcus Garvey
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A Jamaican who lived in Harlem and stressed the need for unity of all Africans known as Pan Americanism
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Guerrilla Tactics
Definition
using unexpected maneuvers like sabotage and subterfuge to fight the enemy
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Transform Turkey into a modern state
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What did Kemal Ataturk do to help his country?
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Mao Zedong
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Who led the Long March?
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Balfour Declaration
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support for a national home for the Jews in Palestine
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Zaibatsu
Definition
Various manufacturing processes concentrated into a single enterprise
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PEMEX
Definition
international oil company set up by Mexico
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Salt March
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march to the sea led by Ghandhi in protest unjust British laws
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Rejected the used of military forced in Latin America
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What was Roosevelt's Good Neighbor Policy?
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Reza Shah Pahlavi
Definition
Who established to modern state of Iran?
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Chiang Kai Shek
Definition
Who commanded the killing of thousands of Communists in the Shanghai Massacre?
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Poverty stricken peasants
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What did Mao say would drive communist revolution?
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Henry Pu Yi
Definition
infant last emperor after CiXi died
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Sun Yat-Sen
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Started the Revive China Society and was the leader of the revolutionary movement that overthrew the Qing Dynasty
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Extraterritoriality
Definition
Europeans lived in their own sections and were not subject to Chinese laws but to their own laws
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Oligarchy
Definition
a select group of people that exercise control
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Concessions
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political compromises
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Spheres of Influence
Definition
European states began to create areas where the imperial power had exclusive trading rights
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Perfectures
Definition
territory given to the local nobles or daimyo after being stripped of their title
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CiXi
Definition
Who imprisoned Guang Xu?
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Treaty of Nanjing
Definition
ended the opium war. The Chinese agreed to open five coastal ports to British trade, limit taxes on imported British goods, and pay for the cost of the war
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Christian convert who viewed himself as a younger brother of Jesus Christ
Definition
How did Hong Xiuquam view himself?
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John Hay
Definition
Who proposed the Open Door Policy?
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Destroy the foreigners
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What was the Boxer's slogan?
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Japan was recognized as a world power
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What was the result of Japan's victory over Russia?
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Because it brought social reform
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Why did Tai Ping Rebellion appeal to many people?
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Guang Xu
Definition
Who launched 100 days to Reform?
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Treaty of Kanagawa
Definition
Between the U.S. and Japan: Commodore Matthew Perry got Japan to agree to return the ship wrecked sailors and open the two ports to western traders and the establishment of a U.S. consulate
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General Yuan Shigai
Definition
President after the fall of the Qing Dynasty
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By selling opium
Definition
How did Britain try to balance trade with China?
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Ito Hirobumi
Definition
Who traveled to Great Britain, France, and the U.S. to study their governments?
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U.S. and the Soviet Union
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Who emerged as two super powers after WWII?
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The communist and anticommunist supported by Great Britain were fighting each other for control
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What problem did the Civil War in Greece cause between the two super powers?
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Truman Doctrine
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U.S. would provide money to countries threatened by Communist expansion
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Dean Acheson
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U.S. secretary of state said, "Like apples in a barrel infected by disease..."
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Marshall Plan
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General George C. Marshall, secretary of state proposed the European Recovery Program, also known as the Marshall Plan.
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Satellite states
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states located on the western border of the Soviet union controlled by the Soviet Union
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Policy of Containment
Definition
keep communism within its existing border
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Federal Republic of Germany
Definition
West Germany whose capital was Bonn
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Germany Democratic Republic
Definition
set up by Soviet
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Warsaw Pact
Definition
an alliance between the S.U., Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania
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NATO
Definition
an alliance between Belgium, Luxembourg, France, the Netherlands, G.B., Italy, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, and Iceland signed with the United States and Canada
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SEATO
Definition
stop soviet aggression in the East, U.S., G.B, France, Pakistan, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, and N.Z.
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CENTO
Definition
an alliance with Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, G.B., and the U.S.
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Deterrence
Definition
no one will use nuclear weapons
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Nikita Krushchev
Definition
new leader of the Soviet Union; built the Berlin Wall to keep the East Germans from escaping through West Berlin
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