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Western Civ Objective Test Flashcards
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Social Studies
10th Grade
05/21/2013

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Port Arthur
Definition
Battle between Russia and Japanese, beginning of Russo-German war
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Bloody Sunday
Definition
Father Gapon
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R. Kipling
Definition
White Man's Burden
Term
Boers
Definition
Dutch Settlers in South Africa
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C. Rhodes

 

Definition
Pushed Boers north
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Triple Alliance

 

Definition
Germany, Italy, Austria
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Triple Entente
Definition
France, England, Russia
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Balkan Powderkeg
Definition
Caused by Eastern Question
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Sarajevo
Definition
Capital of Bosnia, Franz Ferdinand assassinated by the Black Hand
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VSP
Definition
Van Schlieffen Plan, Germany attacks in west and defends east
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German Mobilization
Definition
Hindenburg, Leudenforf
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Lucitania
Definition
British luxury liner, disguised with American passengers
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E. Remarque
Definition
All Quiet on the Western Front
Term
Easter Rebellion
Definition
Irish uprising in WWI
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Nickolas II
Definition
LAst Romanov, Tzar during Russian Rev, shot to death by Russian people
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Rasputin
Definition
Monk, cured Tzar's son, large role in leading Russia to rev
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Duma
Definition
Forms Provisional Gov't, during 1st Russian Rev
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April Theses
Definition
Lenin
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Korensky

Definition
Last PM of Russia
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RA
Definition
Red Army, created by Trotsky during Russian Civil War
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PG
Definition
Provisional Government
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Cheka
Definition
First of the communist secret police
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Versailles Treaty
Definition
Article 231- War Guilt Clause
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Royal Family of Russia
Definition
Romanovs
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Big 3
Definition
Britain, France, America
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Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George, Clemenseau
Definition
Big 3 Leaders
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14 points
Definition
Wilson, 14th point: League of Nations
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Spengler
Definition
Decline of the West
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Little Entente
Definition
Post WWI, France and Germany
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Dawes' Plan
Definition
Plan ends Rhur crisis, German reperations, led to Spirit of Locarao
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Gulags
Definition
Forced Labor camps
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Il Duce
Definition
Mussolini
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Blackshirts
Definition
Political army of Mussolini
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Brownshirts
Definition
Political army of Hitler
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Beer Hall Putsch
Definition
Hitler, 1923, Munich
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SA
Definition
Brownshirts
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Rohm
Definition
Leader of SA, murdered at Night of the Long Knives
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Lebensraum
Definition
German term for living space
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Goring
Definition
Leader of Luftwaffe
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Himmler
Definition
Leader of SS
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Nuremberg Laws
Definition
German Laws, reduce civil rights of Jews
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NEP (new economic policy)
Definition
Lenin, post civil war Russia
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Squadrista
Definition
Italian thugs for Il Duce
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Stakhanov
Definition
Poster Boy for Russian Sacrifice
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Kulaks
Definition
Independent land owning farmers, eliminated by Stalin
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Luftwaffe

Definition
German Air Force
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Sudetenland
Definition
Territory between Germany and Czechoslovakia
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Munich Conference
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Appeasement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Secret Protocol
Definition
Part of Soviet/Nazi non aggression
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Manchukuo
Definition
Japanese who invaded northern China and captured it
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Stuka
Definition
Dive bombers in Germany
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Maginot Line
Definition
Defenses on French-German border
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Dunkirk
Definition
350,000 French + British soldiers evacuated, port city on English Channel
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Petain
Definition

Leader of New French Gov't

Vichy

Term
Stalingrad
Definition
Capture of German 6th Army
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El Alamain
Definition
Defeat of Rommel and Afrikakorps
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Asian Theatre
Definition
Battle of Midway
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Kursk
Definition
Largest tank battle in history, Russia defeats Germany
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Einsatzgruppen
Definition
German SS, killed Jews
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Auschwitz
Definition
Largest German extermination camp
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Zyklon B
Definition
Deadly gas used in Auschwitz
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