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S.S Final ExamReview
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Treaty of Versilles angered many Germans after World War I b/c the treaty..... | Forced Germany to pay large war reparations |
| Censorship, mass arrests, and a secret police force are most characteristics of..... | Totalitarian regimes |
| Which leader is most closely associated w/ the rise of fascism in italy prior to World war II? | Benito Mussolini |
| A type of totalitarian govenment under Hitler and Mussolini, where the government promottes extreme nationalism and puts the needs of the state befhts of individual citizens is known as....... | Fascism |
| In Italy and Germany, fascism appealed to people who feared...... | Communsim |
| Which national crisis allowed Hitler to come to power? | The Great Depression |
| Which group was accused of violating human rights in the city Nanjing (Nanking) prior and during World War II? | Japanese |
| From 1936-1938, millions of Russians disappear or are put into labor camps. This is known as the...... | The Great Purge |
| What was the purpose of Stalin's Five-Year Plans? | To modernize Russia's backward economy |
| During the mid-1930's, which characterstics was common to Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Communist Soviet Union? | one-party system ownersihp of the means of production and distribution |
| Which country bacame part of greater Germany as a result of Hitler's policy of ANSCHLUSS? | Austria |
| Nazi Germany sought to reclaim land lost after WWI in Czechoslovakia known as...... | Sudetenland |
| The policy of cooperating w/ an aggressor to prevent peace is......... | Appeasement |
| At the Munich Conference, British Prime Minister Neville chamberlain.......... | Agreed that Hilter could keep lands already taken in exchange for a promise to end German expansion |
| Germany made a non-aggression pact w/ whatcounyin 1939? | The Soviet Union |
| Japan's invasion of china in 1939 and Germany's attack on Poland in 1939 led directly to....... | The beginning of World War II in Asia and Europe |
| The "lightning" fast style of attack that hitler used to take over most of Europe from 1939-1942 is known as..... | Blitzkreig |
| which of the following were two of the Allied Powersat the START of the war? | Great Britain and France |
| Germany, Italy, and Japan created an alliance called the...... | Axis Powers |
| Operation Barbarossa in 1941 was code for the..... | German incvasion of the Soviet Union |
| At this point in WWII, the Soiet Union fought German forces for control of a major city in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union won it evenually helped lead to the defeat of Nazi Germany. | Battle of Stalingrad |
| Japanese pilots who crashed their airplains into American ships were called....... | Kamikaze |
| This was WWII strategy of going from one island to the next territory back from the Japanese. | Island Hopping |
| A violaiton of civil rights that occured in the United States during WWII was the....... | Intermen of Japanese Americans |
| What was done to Japan to make them surrender? | Atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| When did WWII in the pacific end? | When the Japanese surrendered after the U.S roped two atonimc bombs |
| Confirmed areas where Jews wee forced to live were called...... | Ghettos |
| The mass killing of people (targeting based on race, ethnicity, religion, social class or potitical beliefs of people) w/ the intent to completely eliminate the group from society is also known as.... | genocide |
| What was the name of the book written by Hitler when in jail that describes Nazi goals and ideology? | Mein Kampf |
| What happened on Kristallnach? | Jewish businesses were destroyed and yagogue were burned |
| The "final Solution" can Best be described as: | A Nazi plan calling for killing of the Jews of europe by gassng, shooting and other means |
| Hitler believed in..... | Nationalism, militarism, and anti-Semitism |
| The following statement shows how Germany stood under the rule of Hitler. | The Nazis controlled all aspects of German life |
| This international organization was created after WWII. Member nations work together to promote peace,protect human rights and improve quality of life in developing nations. | United Nations |
| The term "Cold War" is used to describe..... | The 46 years of conflict and competition between the U.S and the Soviet Union |
| During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union competed in what ways? | The "space race", competing in space exploration; the "arms race", competing to build weapons; and politically, democracy versus communism |
| After WWII, the Allies decided to deal with defeated Germany by...... | Dividing Germany into separate zones of occupation |
| This foreign policy, announced by the U.S president whom it was named after, stated that the Soviet Union and communism would not be allowed to expand. | Truman Doctrine |
| Cuban Missile Crisis finally ended when..... | The Soviets and Americans negotiated an agreement |
| One indicator that does not represent totalitarian regime is...... | Free potitical elections |
| What were NATO and the Warsaw Pact and why were they created? | Military alliances, both created for protection in the event of a military attack |
| What term did Winston Churchill coin when he described the division between eastern and western Europe following the Allied victory in WWII? | Iron Curtain |
| Which of the following is a characteristic of Soviet communism? | promotion of a socialist economic system |
| Who was not a leader of the Soviet Union? | Yuri Gagarin |
| Why did the U.S and the Allied Democracies of the west conduct the extensive operation known as the Berlin Airlift in 1948? | to fly supplies to west Berlin following a Soviet blockade of the city |
| Why did the Soviet Union and East German officials initially build a wall between eastern and western Berlin? | to prevent young and skilled East Germans from fleeing to the west |
| MAD or "mutually assured destruction was the principle that suggested that the arms race between U.S and the U.S.S.R would not result in nuclear war because........ | neither sides would benefit, as each side could respond with an equal and immediate counter attack, destroying them both |
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