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World History Final Review
2013 Jeopardy Review
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History
9th Grade
06/23/2013

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Armistice Day
Definition
November 11, 1918
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14 Points
Definition
Support for secret treaties was not part of this plan
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Reparations
Definition
Payment designed to punish Germany
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Mandates
Definition
Ottoman and former German colonies were controlled by the western powers under this system
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Big Three at Versailles
Definition
Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau
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Blitzkrieg
Definition
German tactic of fighting known as "lightning war"
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Operation Barbarossa
Definition
German plan to invade and conquer Russia
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Dunkirk
Definition
As German forced poured into France the retreating allies were rescued at this city
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Operation Sea Lion
Definition
The name of the proposed land invasion of England
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The Phony War
Definition
The first winter of the war when no real fighting took place
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Nazis
Definition
Name given to NSDAP members
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Reichstag Fire
Definition
Event which allowed Hitler and the Nazis to gain total control over Germany
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Sudetenland
Definition
Hitler wanted to protect the German speaking people in this Czech territory
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Mein Kampf
Definition
Hitler's book
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Appeasement
Definition
The Munich agreement was an example of this policy
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Weimar
Definition
After World War 1 a republican constitution for a new German government was drawn up in this city
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Prime Minister
Definition
Mussolini came to power in Italy in 1922 by being appointed to this position
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Germany
Definition
Paul von Hindenburg was President of this country for most of the interwar years
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Maginot Line
Definition
France got a false sense of security from this system of structures
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Fascism in Germany or Nazism
Definition
The harsh conditions imposed by the Versailles Treaty helped lay the foundation for this movement
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Rasputin
Definition
Illiterate peasant on whom the Czarina depended
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Bloody Sunday
Definition
George Gapon led a protest on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg that came to be known by this name
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The October Manifesto
Definition
The Duma was created by this Czarist decree
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Russo-Japanese War
Definition
Russia suffered a humiliating defeat in this war
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March Revolution
Definition
Alexander Kerensky was the leader of this uprising
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U.S. and U.S.S.R
Definition
Two superpowers that emerge after World War 2
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The Truman Doctrine
Definition
The policy of containment was stated in this U.S. policy statement
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United Nations
Definition
Military attacks were not part of this post-war organization's mission
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The Marshall Plan
Definition
Economic aid package offered to the nations of Europe
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Iron Curtain
Definition
Imaginary line that divided Europe
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Wannsee Conference
Definition
Meeting place that discussed the used of gas chambers
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Kristallnacht
Definition
Night of the Broken Glass
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Holocaust
Definition
Terrible destruction or terrible fire
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Concentration Camps
Definition
Element of Germany's state control for minorities
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Final Solution
Definition
Planned extermination of Europe's Jewish population
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War Crimes Trials
Definition
These proceedings took place in Nuremburg
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Precedent
Definition
National leaders can be held responsible for crimes against humanity was established as this
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Holocaust
Definition
Event for which most Nazis were tried at Nuremburg
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Master Race
Definition
Germans considered themselves this
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Beer Hall Putsch
Definition
Attempted revolution by the Nazis in Bavaria in 1923
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Josef Stalin
Definition
Rose to power by building a loyal following among Communist Party members
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New Economic Policy
Definition
"A compromise with capitalism" to rebuild the Soviet economy after the Civil War
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Pravda
Definition
The underground newspaper created by Lenin
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Russian Civil War
Definition
Result of the Bolshevik Revolution
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Propaganda
Definition
Praise communism and criticize capitalism
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Cheka
Definition
Lenin's secret police
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World War 1
Definition
The Provisional Government lost the support of the Russian people because of this preoccupation
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Trans-Siberian Railroad
Definition
Transportation network connecting the east with the west across Russia
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Soviet
Definition
Union of workers and soldiers
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Brest-Ltovsk
Definition
Germany was not allowed to control Russian elections according to this treaty that took Russia out of WW1
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Stalingrad
Definition
Turning point in the East
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Berlin
Definition
The war in Europe ended when the allies captured this city
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Lend-Lease Act
Definition
This act established America as the "arsenal of democracy" by empowering her to provide war materials to certain nations
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Dropping Atomic Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Definition
Japan agreed to surrender unconditionally to the allies after these events
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Vichy France
Definition
Collaborative (puppet) government after the fall of Free France
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Kulaks
Definition
Wealthy class of peasant farmers
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