World Studies Final Exam Study Guide

The terrible _____ of 1941-42 stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union.

The _____ sought to make China a Japanese protectorate.

Western critics of imperialism complained that colonialism was _____.

The Boers of souther Africa migrated north and clashed with the _____.

Mussolini's _____ government appealed to Italians because it ended political feuding in government.

_____ occurred on December 7, 1941.

The Open Door policy was meant to protect US _____ rights in China.

_____ was known as the sick man of Europe.

US president FDR proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the _____.

The first Battle of the _____ ended Germany's hopes for a quick victory on the Western Front during WWI.

The _____ failed during WWI because Russia mobilized its army quickly.

_____ made it difficult for either side to win an advantage along the Wester Front early in WWI.

During WWII, the British _____ of ships violated international law because it confiscated food and clothing.

American philosopher Henry David Thoreau influenced Gandhi through his ideas on _____.

The Boer War was sparked by the discovery of _____ and _____ on Boer-held lands.

The Chinese who turned to the revolutionary ideas of Marx & Lenin gained strong support from _____.

During the 1938 _____ Conference, the British & French persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudentenland to avoid war.

Under Mussolini's rule in Italy, there was a one-party _____.

German forces set up a _____ in the French city of Vichy after conquering Francing during WWII.

The ____ was a state of tension and hostility between the US and the Soviet Union from 1945-1991.

During the 3-year civil war in Russia, the White armies were composed of tsarist officers, democrats, and other _____.

Nationalism increased tensions in pre-WWI Europe because Germans were proud of their _____ and industrial leadership.

_____ was not as widespread on the Eastern Front during WWI.

The purpose of _____ in South Africa was to ensure white economic, political, and social supremacy.

_____ was the fascist leader of Spain during WWII.

Chinese _____ were angered when the Allies gave Japan control over lands in China.

The _____ decided that to claim part of Africa, a European power had to set up a gov't office in the African country.

When the Nazies _____ Germany, it was a rejection of the Versailles treaty.

Francy occupied Germany's coal-rich _____ in 1923 because Germany had fallen behind in reparations.

The _____ of 1924 was an agreement that reduced German reparations and provided US loans to Germany.

In 1942, Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin prioritized victory in _____ before trying to achieve victory in Asia.

In 1922, Japan agreed to limit the size of its _____ to protect its relations with the West.

Social Darwinists in favor of Western Imperialism thought they had a duty to bring _____ to inferior races.

The first stage of Hitler's _____ strategy was fast-moving ground troops that quickly overwhelmed the enemy.

Hundreds of Indians were killed at Amritsar which was a turning point in the _____ independence movement in 1919.

The Allies welcomed the overthrow of Russia's _____ because they hoped Russia would become more democratic.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east as part of the _____ Pact.

Nationalism, Systems of Alliances, Imperialism, and Militarism were all causes of _____.

The _____ was the new League of Nations created after WWII.

The militarists who came to power in Japan in the 1930s used _____ to teach students absolute obedience to the emperor.

_____ was part of Sun Yixian's "Three Principles of the People."

V.I. _____ was the leader of the Bolsheviks in 1917 during the November Revolution.

Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy of _____.

In 1931, Japanese _____ seized the Chinese province of Manchuria.

The Taiping Rebellion in 1850 China resulted in the Qing Dynasty surviving but having to _____.

One result of the Sepoy Rebellion was the British were drive out of the _____ area of India.

King Leopold II hired _____ to explore the Congo River basin and find the missing explorer Dr. Livingston.

_____ of the state was a key component of fascism in the 1920s and 30s.

The second atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of _____.

Tensions between Turkish nationalists and ethnic groups seeking independence sparked the _____ in the Ottoman Empire.

Dunkirk was a battle during WWII where 400,000 British & French troops were ____ rescued by private ships and the navy.

The Germans changed their tactics in preparing for Operation _____ when they began to bomb London and other cities.

One of Ataturk's reforms in Turkey was to reject _____ in laws and government.

The US action of banning the sale of iron, steel, and oil influenced the _____ decision to attack in 1941.

In 1935, the Nazies passed the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived _____ of German citizenship.

The _____ Incident occurred in 1919 when British troops fired on unarmed Indians, killing 400 and wounding 1100.

The Battle of El Alamein in 1942 was important because the British stopped the German advance in North _____.

In the Zimmerman note, Germany offered the return of _____ lands held by the US if it joined the Central Powers.

The Opium War was fought between Great Britain and _____.

Ghandi preached the power of _____ could change wrongdoers.

Sun Yixian's efforts to rebuild China based on the _____ resulted in chaos, forcing Sun to step down.

To defend their merchant ships against attacks from German submarines, the Allies organized the merchant ships into ___.

On Stalin's _____, the government provided tractors, fertilizers, and seed.

The League of Nations _____ the Japanese invasion of Manchuria, but did nothing to stop it.

As a part of the struggle for Indian independence, Gandhi urged Indians to _____ British goods.

_____ was Hitler's book that described his political, social, and economic beliefs.

In the spring of 1940, British forces successfully retreated across the English Channel at _____.

One effect of nationalism in Europe in the early 1900s was Austria feared increasing _____ among its subjects.

June 6, 1944, when the Allies invaded France during WWII, is known as _____.

_____ was responsible for the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.

After WWI, _____ became a true industrial power.

_____ Germans sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and longed for another strong leader like Bismark.

The _____ massacre convinced many Indians that India needed to govern itself.

The Balfour Declaration declared British support for a _____ homeland in Palestine in 1917.

When Hitler sent troops into the _____ he violated the Versailles treaty for the first time in 1936.

The first atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of _____

Catholic and Protestant _____ saw African natives as children in need of guidance.

The Treaty of Versailles focused mainly on _____ Germany.

After WWI, European colonies in Africa, Asian, and the Pacific felt betrayed by the outcome of the _____.

The _____ was a top-secret plan to develop the atomic bomb.

The Maginot Line was a line of French fortifications built after WWI on the border between _____ and France.

The cause of Stalin's Great _____ was his fear of rival party leaders.

In the Treaty of Nanjing, Britain gained control of _____.

In the 1920s the US became the world's leading _____ power.

As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, Russia planned to seize the Bosporus and Dardanelles to gain access to the ____.

Georges _____ was an Allied leader who wanted to weaken Germany so it could never again threaten France.

Rifle cartridges greased with _____ were a key cause of the Sepoy Rebellion.

A "red scare" was a fear of _____ in the US.

_____ was a British Prime Minister who gave Hitler what he wanted and declared "peace in our time."

The right of Eastern Europeans to choose their own form of government was one of Woodrow Wilson's _____.

In 1935, the League of Nations voted sanctions against Italy for invading _____.

The drawback for the Soviet _____ under Stalin was they often suffered from his purges.

Russia entered WWI because they wanted to defend the _____ people in Serbia.

The US strategy of _____ in the Pacific during WWI allowed the US to gradually move north toward Japan.

Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary were members of the _____ during WWI.

The spread of economic problems around the world in the 1930s was the partially result of governments raising _____.

The _____ were Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied warships.

One of Hitler's goals was the persecution and _____ of Jews.

Britain built the world's most respected navy because it needed to protect its vast _____.

WWII officially ended in September 1945 when _____ surrendered.