Unit 6

What did Commodore Perry’s visit aboard an American fleet in 1854 end?

What word refers to the modernization of Japan and the political transfer of power back to the emperor?

In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, who wins?

What term refers to the act of Europeans forcibly taking land from Japan, such as the Liaodong Peninsula?

In the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, who wins and what land do they take?

What country joins the Allies in WW1 and takes control of German possessions in China and South Pacific?

Which four countries partake in a pacific cooperation known as the Four Power Treaty?

What conference established a battleship tonnage ratio of 5:5:3 for the U.S., the U.K. and Japan?

Who did the Japanese people see as a “living god” that was destined to make Japan great?

What was Japan’s goal with China?

Who joined the Allies in WW1 as a way to gain Austrian territory?

Who was denied desired territory at Versailles?

What factors pertain to Fascism?

Who, because of political unrest in Italy, forms the first fascist unit in 1919? (They’re called the Blackshirts)

When did the fascists march to Rome to take over?

What does Il Duce mean? (Mussolini’s title 5 years after becoming the coalition cabinet’s prime minister)

What were Mussolini’s desired foreign policies?

Why could Mussolini only take land from smaller nations?

What did Mussolini take from Yugoslavia?

What pact was meant to outlaw war?

Who was blamed for WW1? Who was made to feel they were being stabbed in the back?

Who, having fought in WW1, led the National Socialist German Worker’s Party? (Nazi)

What were the Nazi Party’s paramilitary called?

How did the German government gain sympathy?

Who attempted a coup, failed, then got sent to jail and wrote Mein Kampf during his prison sentence?

What were Hitler’s foreign policy goals?

Who, with aid from their new personal guard (the Schutzstaffel), re-launched the Nazi Party?

What plan helps Germans pay off WW1 debts?

Who takes over after Lenin dies?

What’s the name of the genocide in Ukraine led by Stalin?

What was burned down in 1933?

Who combines the position of president and chancellor after President Hindenburg’s death, known as Der Fuhrer?

How many nations agreed to the Kellog-Briand Pact?

What event in the Senate convinced many that U.S. involvement in WW1 was due to bankers and manufacturers?

What party wanted a unified and democratic China?

Who led the GMD Party?

What party wanted a communist China?

Who led the CCP?

What event caused the GMD and the CCP to unite against warlords to seize Beijing?

What army stopped the Northern Expedition in hopes of taking Manchuria for themselves?

What event that kicked off the Chinese Civil War was caused by Jiang Jieshi’s expulsion of many communists, killing around 250k?

What tactic was used to surround and circle in a large area to expel communists?

What event in 1934-1935, in which Chinese Communists escaped to the north, secured Mao Zedong the spot as the leader of the CCP?

What army decided to seize Manchuria?

Due to a bomb explosion in Manchuria, who is blamed for it by the Kwantung Army as a ploy to invade?

What’s the name of Japan’s puppet government in Manchuria?

Who eventually becomes Prime Minister of Japan?

Who believed bombers alone could decide future conflicts by destroying cities?

What started the Sino-Japanese War of 1937?

What six week period was marked by the raping, looting, burning, and execution of Chinese civilians by the Japanese soldiers?

Who does Japan eliminate as a way to have the Chinese accept Japanese domination?

Why would Italy invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)?

When did Italy invade Abyssinia?

What secret pact formed by the U.K. and France offered Italy half of Abyssinia if they stopped fighting?

When did Italy capture the capital of Abyssinia, Addis Ababa?

Who were Britain preoccupied with to worry about Germany?

What conference in Geneva led to Germany leaving the League of Nations and the start of a French conspiracy that aimed at keeping Germany weak?

What air force is created in 1935 secretly with the help of the Soviets?

What agreement stated that the German Navy should be no bigger than 35% of the U.K.’s?

What does Hitler use as an excuse to send troops in Rhineland?

What was popular in Spain around the 1930s?

Who led the “Novios de la Muerte”, the nationalistic foreign legion?

When did Spain become a republic?

Who’s death led to a coup? (Right-wing politician)

What side was Franco on?

Who’s side received help from the Luftwaffe to reach Spain as a means to capture Madrid?

What bombing became famous from a Picasso painting?

What countries supported the Nationalists?

What country supported the Loyalists?

What anachist group wanted a women’s revolution and a socialist’s revolution?

What side of the Spanish Civil War won? How long did that side remain in power?

What word refers to the act of giving your opponent what they want to avoid a fight?

Who used the appeasement policy towards Italy and Germany in the 1930s?

What were the reasons for British appeasement?

What were the reasons for French appeasement?

Why didn’t Stalin trust the West?

What did the U.S. enforce during the Italian Invasion of Abyssinia and the Spanish Civil War?

Who was the only country to support the Republic side during the Spanish Civil War?

What were Canada’s foreign policies?

Why couldn’t the League of Nations interfere with Germany?

Who called the wars in Rhineland “unnecessary”?

When was the Rome-Berlin Axis Alliance signed?

What does Comintern mean?

When was the Anti-Comintern Pact (involving the Axis Powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan) signed?

Who were inferior in Hitler’s eyes?

When did Hitler prepare to invade Sudetenland, the region of Czechoslovakia that bordered Germany?

What conference did Nevile Chamberlain, Hitler, Mussolini, and Daladier (French Leader) attend to discuss relations with Czechoslovakia?

What pact, famously known as the most popular attempt at appeasement, gave Sudetenland to Germany so long as the rest of Cezchoslovaki remained untouched?

Who calls the Munich Pact “Peace in our time”?

When does Hitler break the Munich Pact to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia?

When does Mussolini attack Albania as a means to be equal with Hitler’s invasion?

Who does Britain promise to protect? (Hitler’s next target)

What pact is signed for resources between Italy and Germany?

By what year does U.S. military spending lift them out of the Great Depression?

What is the name of the pact made in 1940 between Stalin and Hitler? (they agreed to neutrality and the divison of Eastern Europe amongst themselves)