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History - CST Review #3
Things that i missed and don't know. Mr. Collin's extra things as well.
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History
9th Grade
04/14/2011

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When was Khrushchev elected?
Definition
1953
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What was command economy?
Definition
an economic system in which the state or workers' councils manage the economy.
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What's the Great Purge?
Definition
A campaign to eliminate Stalin's opposition in 1934-39)
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In WWII, Germans had to pay how much? How many years did they accomplish this?
Definition
33 billion dollars in 30 years
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During the Nuremberg Trials, how many were put on trial?
Definition
22
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How many countries were economically assisted?
Definition
16+ countries
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Which two countries recieved help from Marshall Plan?
Definition
Greece and Turkey
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What year did Gorbachev become leader?
Definition
1985
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Who are included in the sub-humans Hitler accuses?
Definition
gypsies, Poles, Russians, homosexuals, insane, disabled, incurably ill. But Nazis specially focused on the Jews
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What is Anschluss?
Definition
This is the invasion of Austria by Germany
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What's the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Definition
The pact to renounce war as a national policy
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How many soldiers were lost in Russia during WWII?
Definition
17 million
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What was the Zimmerman note?
Definition
A letter that exposed German plans to help Mexico regain US territory. PUshing the US into WWI.
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In what part of Europe were the Western and Eastern Front?
Definition
France and Russia
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Which nation's actions led the US to abandon its neutrality and join WWI?
Definition
Germany
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What was all that remained of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI?
Definition
Turkey
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Who was the last czar of Russia?
Definition
Nicholas Romanov II
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What was Nicholas Romanov II's wife's name? Where is she from?
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Alexandra; Germany
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Who was the leader of Bolshevik Revolution in RUssia and the first communist leader of Russia?
Definition
Lenin
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Who was the leader of the Red Army under Lenin and forced by Stalin to flee the Soviet Union to Mexico?
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Trotsky
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Who transformed the SOviet Union into a totalitarian state?
Definition
Stalin
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In what country did the Bolshevik Revolution take place?
Definition
Russia
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Why did the Soviet government decided to eliminate kulaks?
Definition
The Kulaks resisted collective farming/collectivization
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Goals of the Five-Year Plans:
Definition
stronger national defense, modernization of the Soviet econnomy, and rapid industrial growth. (Militarize, Modernize, Industrialize)
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Who was the Soviet leader after Stalin?
Definition
Khrushchev
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What was the name of the first satellite sent into space? What did it start?
Definition
Sputnik; the space race
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What country suffered greatly because of war debts (WWI)?
Definition
Germany
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What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact?
Definition
an international peace agreement after WWI
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What do fascism and communism have in common?
Definition
They encourage strong nationalist feelings, are one party systems, and disreguard individual rights
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Who were the Axis Powers in WWII?
Definition
Japan, Italy, and Germany (JIG)
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Who was the leader of the Third Reich?
Definition
Hitler
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What does fascism stress?
Definition
nationalism
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What was Nazism?
Definition
German form of Facism
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Which three leaders are Fascist leaders?
Definition
Hitler, mussolini, and Franco (Spain)
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What was the title of Hitler's book (German and English)?
Definition
Mien Kampf, "My Struggle"
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What was the attack on German Jews by Nazi mobs on November 9, 1938 called?
Definition
Kristallnacht; "Night of Broken Glass"
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Which country invaded Rhineland in 1936?
Definition
Germany
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What country did Hitler take over first?
Definition
Anschluss, AUSTRIA
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What country signed a nonaggression pact with Germany? When?
Definition
Soviet Union; August 1939
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What brought Great Britain and France into WWII?
Definition
Invasion of Poland by Germany
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Why did the US enter WWII?
Definition
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor
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What did Stalin want Churchill and Roosevelt to do?
Definition
Form a western front against Germany (Russia would attack from the east to 'smash' Germany
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Who was supreme commander of the Allied forces in Europe during WWII and later President of the US?
Definition
Eisenhower
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When and what was D-Day?
Definition
June 6, 1944, the Allied invasion of France, also known as Operation Overlord
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What was Hitler's "Fianl Solution"?
Definition
Genocide against "inferior" races
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Where was the largest Nazi extermination camp?
Definition
Auschwitz
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What Japanese cities were the atomic bombs dropped on?
Definition
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Term
What was addressed at the Nuremberg Trials? Who was accused?
Definition
The Holocaust; Nazi leaders
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What country lost the most soldiers in WWII?
Definition
Russia
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What country had the most civilian killed in WWII?
Definition
China (debatable by Russia)
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What was the Marshall Plan?
Definition
An economic assistance program to help rebuid Europe after WWII
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What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine?
Definition
Strengthen Europe's resistance to communism
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What was the containment aimed at containing?
Definition
The spread of communism worldwide
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What was the Warsaw Pact?
Definition
The name of the alliance established by European communist nations in response to NATO
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Who launched Sputnik?
Definition
Soviet Union
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Definition
Dangerous stanndoff took place beetween US and Soviet Union, over the presence of Soviet missile
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what was destalination and who started it?
Definition
The criticism of Stalin's abuses of power, started by Khrushchev
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What was Detente?
Definition
The policy to reduce Cold War tensions
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Who did the Soviet Union invade in 1979?
Definition
Afghanistan
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What Soviet leader began the reforms that led to democratization?
Definition
Gorbachev,
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