World Wars Final Exam Review Quiz

A political belief that rose to prominence in the 1930s where a strong leader promised to unite and strengthen a suffering country by eliminating those that made it weak.

• Communism

• Fascism

• Democratic Socialism

• Totalitarianism

Political and social system that bans all private ownership of property, but instead all share and contribute to a collective.

• Communism

• Fascism

• Totalitarianism

• Democratic Socialism

Political belief that rose to prominence in Western countries where a government provides helps to those who absolutely need it - usually through social welfare and public works.

• Communism

• Democratic Socialism

• Fascism

• Totalitarianism

Peace treaty following WWI which blamed Germany for the war and inflicted severe payments and punishments on Germany.

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Munich Agreement

• Central Powers

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire in World War One.

• Central Powers

• Axis Powers

• Allied Powers

• Potsdam Agreement

Germany, Italy, and Japan in World War Two

• Axis Powers

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

• Soviet Union

France, Britain, Russia (Soviet Union), and the United States in both World War One and World War Two

• Axis Powers

• Central Powers

• Allied Powers

• Anschluss Agreement

International peacekeeping organization established after WWII that could enforce its own policies so it could prevent smaller conflicts from escalating into bigger ones potentially involving atomic weapons.

• United Nations

• League of Nations

• Treaty of Versailles

• Soviet Union

Military alliance formed during the Cold War to support capitalist democracies and to stop and contain communism with force if necessary.

• NATO

• SEATO

• Warsaw Pact

• Red Scare

Tense fighting where neither side gains much ground but all sides experience heavy losses; apparent along the Western Front in World War One

• Stalemate

• Appeasement

• Containment

• Aggression