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Joseph Stalin
was the Communist, totalitarian leader of the Soviet Union (now called Russia) from 1927 to 1953. the five year plan was unrealistic and caused famines. TERM 2
Czechoslovakia
DEFINITION 2 A major exception to the rest of the Eastern Europe in the 1920's. also came into being the union of the Czech lands with Slovakia in October 28,1918. Czechoslovakia was the only Eastern European nation with a deeply rooted liberal tradition. TERM 3
Yugoslavia
DEFINITION 3 Yugoslavia was a country in Southeast Europe during most of the 20th century. TERM 4
Republic of Turkey
DEFINITION 4 Gained international recognition with the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. Turkey was the only member of the Central Powers during the Great War that was treated as an equal when negotiating a treaty with allies TERM 5
John Maynard Keynes's
DEFINITION 5 The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936), Keynes critiqued the laissez-faire policies of his day, particularly the proposition that a normally functioning market economy would bring full employment.
Stalin's 2d and 3rd Five Year Plans
The Second Five Year Plan failed to reach the level of success of the previous plan, as it did not reach goal production levels in the coal and oil industries.The Third Five Year Plan lasted for only three years, as it was interrupted by Germanys declaration of war on the Soviet Union during World War II. TERM 7
Hitler as Chancellor
DEFINITION 7 von Papen struck a deal to make Hitler Chancellor, with himself as Vice-Chancellor. The moderate parties would hold all but three of the government posts, which would go to the Nazis; one of these would be Hitler as Chancellor. TERM 8
Enabling Act
DEFINITION 8 was a 1933 Weimar Constitution amendment that gave the German Cabinet in effect, Chancellor Adolf Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. TERM 9
German repudiation of disarmament
DEFINITION 9 hitler's first overtly aggressive movement in March 1935, when he denounced the disarmament clauses of the Versailles Treaty, introduced military conscription, and announced the existence of an air force. Although the League of Nations condemned Hitler's unilateral action, the British and French took no action to enforce the treaty. In fact, Britain signed the Anlgo-German Naval Treaty with Germany in June 1935, implicitly legitimatizing Hitler's violation of the Versailles Treaty. Neither did Britain nor France do any more than perotest when Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland in March 1936. TERM 10
Munich Conference
DEFINITION 10 The Munich Agreement was a settlement permitting Nazi Germany's annexation of portions of Czechoslovakia along the country's borders mainly inhabited by German speakers, for which a new territorial designation "Sudetenland" was coined.
Yalta Conference
was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down TERM 17
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
DEFINITION 17 The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II. TERM 18
Holocaust
DEFINITION 18 The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah , was a genocide in which Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany and its collaborators killed about six million Jews. TERM 19
Final Solution
DEFINITION 19 he Nazi plan to exterminate the Jewish people, remains uncertain. What is clear is that the genocide of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of Nazi policy, under the rule of Adolf Hitler. TERM 20
Postdam Conference
DEFINITION 20 The Big ThreeSoviet leader Joseph Stalin, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (replaced on July 26 by Prime Minister Clement Attlee), and U.S. President Harry Trumanmet in Potsdam , Germany, from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to negotiate terms for the end of World War II.
United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another such conflict. TERM 22
Marshall Plan
DEFINITION 22 was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave $13 billion (approximately $ billion in current dollar value as of March 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War TERM 23
George F Kenan
DEFINITION 23 George Frost Kennan (February 16, 1904 - March 17, 2005) was an American diplomat, political scientist, and historian. sent an 8, word telegram the " Long Telegram" detailing his sense of how Russians viewed their history and the present moment. Kennan believed Russia's historic sense of insecurity, exacerbated by communism ides of the inevitability of war with capitalism, led Stalin always to seek to improve the country's situation. TERM 24
Truman Doctrine
DEFINITION 24 was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War. It was first announced to Congress by President Harry S. Truman on March 12, 1947 and further developed on July 12, 1948 when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey TERM 25
NATO
DEFINITION 25 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
Dismantling of the colonial empires
took place in two large ways most of Asia gain independent
