World - S2 FINAL Part 2 Flashcards 2025

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Name the two countries that became the "Superpowers" after the end of World War II.

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Soviet Union and United States

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Where did the largest and most famous war crime trial after WWII occur?

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Nuremberg, Germany

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At the Yalta Conference in 1945, what did the leaders of the "Big 3" Allied Powers agree to?

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Partition (divide) Germany into 4 sections after the war

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What conflict developed at the Potsdam Conference in July of 1945?

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Cold War is born.

Stalin breaks his promises to allow free elections in Eastern Europe after the war

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This Middle Eastern nation was established in the region of Palestine on May 14, 1948

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Israel

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The US supported leader of Nationalist China during and after WWII was

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Chiang Kai Shek

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Leader and eventual winner of the Chinese Communist Revolution after WWII

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Mao Zedong

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Where did the Chinese Nationalists flee after losing the Chinese Communist Revolution?

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Taiwan

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_____________ is a communist system in which private farms are taken over by the government and run as communes of workers.

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Collectivism

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What was the "Great Leap Forward"?

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Mao's plan in China for rapid industrialization