Launched the 5 Year Plan to industrialize the USSR

Leader of Japan during the Manchurian Incident

Leader of the Chinese Communist Party

Created a movement for the fascist party throughout Italy

Kenyan political leader and activist, became the first prime minster

Independence leader for the country of Ghana

ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South Africa in 1994. Used civil disobedience tactics to bring about change/independence.

The legislative body in Russia in 1917 was known as

A group of revolutionary Russian Marxists who took control of Russia's government in November 1917. Supported Vladimir Lenin.

The Red secret police, or the Cheka, was used to destroy all those who opposed the communist regime.

A period of low economic activity and high unemployment

The new German government post WWI was known as:

A few societies post WWI became _____ which is where the government aims to rule by broad control.

Stalin's Five Year Plans were intended to transform Russia into

The philosophy that values the state over the individual

The National Socialist German Workers' Party is known as the

Without government approval, a Japanese military group in 1931 invaded this area in China

The deliberate mass murder of a particular racial, political, or cultural group

Prior to WWII Hitler and Stalin sign an agreement stating they would not attack each other for 10 years. This is known as the ...

When Britain and France met with Hitler, allowing him to take over Czechoslovakia as long as he agreed to expand no further. The agreement was seen as an assurance of peace.

The NAZI's used the following battle tactic, "lightning warfare" when invading Poland

The Battle at Midway Island during WWII ...

At ____, heroic efforts by the British Royal Navy and civilians in private boars managed to evacuate 338,000 Allied troops.

Crowded, designated containment or holding areas within cities for Jews

At the Yalta Conference, the Allies agreed to

The city of Berlin, which was located deep inside the Soviet zone of a postwar divided Germany was

The movement to unify all Africans was known as

An organization dedicated to obtaining equal voting and civil rights for black inhabitants of South Africa. Founded in 1912 as the South African Native National Congress, it changed its name in 1923. Eventually brought greater equality.

South Africans descended from Dutch settlers of the seventeenth century. Their Great Trek founded new settler colonies in the nineteenth century. Though a minority among South Africans, they held political power after 1910.

A system of racial segregation in South Africa

ANC leader imprisoned by Afrikaner regime; released in 1990 and elected as president of South Africa in 1994. Used civil disobedience tactics to bring about change/independence.

The USSR formed the Warsaw Pack as a way to offer economic aid to countries in Eastern Europe in response to the West's creation of ...

These policies led to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War

Decolonization occurs rapidly after

Click all that apply: Common themes that occur during the decolonization time period would be ...

Known for leading strikes in the Solidarity movement throughout Poland.

Gorbachev's initial economic reforms

The phrase, "The Iron Curtain" was used to symbolize

What was one of the causes of the Berlin Airlift?

The nearly one million student led protest at Tiananmen Square in China that resulted in government orchestrated violence was focused on:

A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state.

After Lenin got a hold of the government; he wanted to end the war between Germany. A third of old Russia's population was sliced away by the Germans in this Treaty. It sacrificed of all of Russia's western territories.

Ideas spread to influence public opinion for or against a cause. These ideas can be spread by posters, newspaper articles, and the radio.

Hitler defied the Versailles Treaty when he invaded this demilitarized zone (1936)

an area in western Czechoslovakia that was coveted by Hitler and eventually taken after the Munich Conference

Signed between the Axis powers in 1940 (Italy, Germany and Japan) where they pledged to help the others in the event of an attack by the US

Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict; this was seen during the Munich Conference

The idea that Japan will throw off foreign imperialism from Asia. This leads to deterioration in US Japanese relations.

leader of the Allied forces in Europe (during WWII) then was elected to be Pres. of the USA

Series of air strikes over Britain by Germany from August to November of 1940 in an attempt to gain air supremacy.

Restricted freedom, eliminated privacy (communication) and the need for warrants, banned all parties but the Nazi Party, and allowed the chancellor (Hitler) to make decisions without the Reichstag's approval.

The Japanese wanted to continue their expansion within Asia in the late 1930s and early 40s but the US had placed an extremely restrictive embargo on Japan in the hopes of curbing Japan's aggression. The Japanese decided to launch a surprise attack against the United States on Dec. 7, 1941. The United States abandoned its policy of isolationism and entered WWII by declaring war on Japan the following day.

Line of defense built by France to protect against German invasion. Stretched from Belgium to Switzerland.

An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.

Nazi`s were held on trial---accused of crimes against humanity. 12 were executed, 7 got life, 3 were acquitted

This was a leader of the Indian independence movement in mid-20th century known for his nonviolent protests.

Kikuyu ethnic group rose up against British colonizers in bloody rebellion in Kenya

Black South Africans were required to carry these, listed where a person had permission to work and travel, criminal convictions, taxes

An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to the NATO