The League of Nations was created to keep ___________.
world peace
Holy book of Islam
Koran or Qu'Ran
The alphabet used for the writing of Slavic Languages.
Cyrillic
The followers of Christianity are called ___________.
Christians
How did the United States and the Soviet Union compete with one another during the Cold War?
Spreading government and economic system to other countries, nuclear weapons buld-up (arms race), putting a man in space and landindg on the moon (space race).
Who overthrew the Russian monarchy , head of the Bolshevik party, and brought communism to Russia?
Vladimir Lenin
The systematic killing of the Jewish people
Holocaust
After WWI, a major economic crisis
Worldwide depression
How did the competion between the US and Soviet union affect the Soviet Union's economy?
Defense, weapons build up, and space race cost the country a lot of money: not enough food or goods for the people.
What was the Cold War about?
The US and USSR were both worried the other would become too powerful and spread its government and economic system to other countries.
People who spoke out against the Nazi party were _______ or ________
imprisoned or killed
The belief of only one God.
monotheistic
The followers of Islam are called ________.
Muslims
Give four terms of the Treaty of Versailles that were put on Germany.
Germany needed accept bleame for the war, pay $33 billion , get rid of miitary, and lose colonies and land.
What is prejudice against Jewish people called?
anti-semitism
Give 5 reasons there was worldwide economic depression after WWI
great loss of life, inflation, countries had to pay war debts, stock market and banks crashed.
A government based on the theory of Karl Marx where everyone shares the work and rewards: no social classes
Communism
English is from the _________ family of languages.
Germanic
Why was the Cold War given Its name?
Because there was no direct warfare/a war of words
Fastest growing religion in Europe
Islam
The Cold War began in _______ and ended in __________.
1945-1991
Language that uses an alphabet with Greek symbols.
Slavic
Holy book of Judaism
Torah
The ___________ was the world's first communist country.
Soviet Union
Which two superpowers engaged in the Cold War?
The United States and Soviet Union
French, Spanish, and Italian are all from the _______ family of languages.
Romance
Put the following events in chronological order:
A. End of the Cold War C. Treaty of Versailles
B. Holocaust D. German Reunification
C,B, D,A
France wanted the Treaty of Versailles to be harsh to keep ______________.
Germany from invading France again.
Holy book of Christianity
Bible
Extreme principles of Hitler's political party
Nazism
Ended WWI
Treaty of Versailles
What was the Iron Curtain?
The imaginary line that divided the democratic countries and the communist countries in Europe
Who was the leader of the Nazi party in Germany?
Adolf Hitler
West Germany and West Berlin had a ___________ government.
democratic
Used by the Nazi party to turn the Germans against the Jews.
propaganda
The most followed religion in Europe
Christianity
A Mosque is a place of worship for _______.
Muslims
Countries in which part of Europe fell under the influence of hte Communist Soviet Union after WWII?
Eastern Europe
The oldest religions in Europe.
Judaism
The purpose of the ___________________ was to keep Comunist East Berlin separated from Democratic West Berlin.
Berlin Wall
Jewish place of worship
Synagogue
What happened to East and West German once the Soviet Union started allowing more personal and economic freedoms.
Reunified into one country with Berlin as its capital.
During which war was the Holocaust?
WWII
France wanted the Treaty of Versailles to be harsh in order to keep Germany from ____________.
invading Germany again
A time of hostility between the U.S. and the Soviet union.
Cold War
Did the U.S. think blaming Germany for WWI was a good idea?
No
East Germany and East Berlin had ____________ governments.
communist
Russians embraced communism because it would end _________ and make everyone equal.
classes/social classes
When East and West Germany were united/Berlin was reunited into a single city.
German Reunification
The followers of Judaism are _______.
Jewish
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