unit three (world civ 2)
Hitler implemented his planned "Endlösung" ("Final Solution") of European Jews beginning in January ________.
1942
In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.
19th amendment
According to China's "one-child" policy, what happens in the case of a third pregnancy if the couple has two children already?
a mandatory abortion is required
What was stagflation, in reference to the 1970s?
a mixture of an economic downturn and price inflation
The planned massacre of _______ was the one large-scale atrocity of World War I.
armenians
The United States military began to bomb North Vietnam in 1964 in retaliation for what alleged event?
attacks on U.S. ships in the gulf of tonkin
The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as lightning war
blitzkrieg
When U.S. President John F. Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner," he was protesting what Soviet action?
building of the berlin wall
The "Brown vs. the Board of Education" of Topeka, Kansas, decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954 decided that what must happen to American schools?
desegregation
What actions led Bishop Desmond Tutu to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984?
he called for public sanctions of south africa
As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.
league of nations
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the U.S. government under the leadership of
lyndon b. johnson
Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:
marked the turning point in the european war, with a soviet victory
After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.
middle east
Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people
nanjing
What did the Soviets and OPEC boycott shipments of in the mid-1970s?
oil
The anti-Vietnam War movement in the U.S. began
on college campuses
In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.
poland
Johnson's "Great Society" plan was aimed at ending what in the U.S.?
poverty and a lack of jobs
In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.
salt
In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or "________".
soul force
One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:
that nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war
Glasnost, or openness in the press and politics, began when the Soviet Union could not conceal what event from the world press?
the nuclear accident at chernobyl, in the ukraine
In 1959 China took control of what territory, which eventually led to border disputes with India?
tibet
Why did OPEC raise prices on oil exports to the United States from 1973 - 1981?
to protest american support of israel
From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.
total war
Truman felt pressured to end segregation in the U.S. military in 1947 in part because the U.S. had objected to the Nazi policy of racial purity.
true
The League of Nations, created in the aftermath of the "Great War", included all of the following countries as member states except:
united states
Where is Camp David, the site of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, located?
united states
