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World War II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Part militants whom rejected the democratic process in favor of violent action (Mussolini) | Black Shirts |
| Communist International formed by Lenin; aimed to encourage worldwide revolution | Comintern |
| Rebellious young women in the 1920s in Europe and US | Flappers |
| The secret police of Hitler | Gestapo |
| A system of brutal labor camps | Gulag |
| International agreement, signed by almost every nation in 1928 to stop using war as a national policy | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| "The night of broken glass" nazi-led attack on Jews all over Germany at night | Kritallnacht |
| Wealthy farmers | Kulaks |
| Artistic movement that attempts to portray the workings of the unconscious mind | Surrealism |
| Government in which a one party dictatorship regulates every aspect of a citizen's life | Totalitarian State |
| Union of Austria and Hungary | Anschluss |
| Policy of giving in to an aggressor's demand in order to keep peace | Appeasement |
| Lightening war | Blitzkrieg |
| Mid-sized city in Japan where the first atomic bomb was dropped | Hiroshima |
| Act passed by the U.S Congress that allowed the president to lend or sell war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the US | Lend-Lease Act |
| Series of acts passed by the US Congress from 1935-39 that aimed to keep the US from becoming involved in WWII | Neutrality Acts |
| City in southern Germany where Hitler staged Nazi rallies in the 1930s and where Nazi war crime trials were held after WWII | Nuremberg |
| Opposition to all war | Pacifism |
| Now Volgograd, a city in southwestern Russia that was the site of a fierce battle during WWII | Stalingrad |
| Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin in February 1945 where the 3 leaders made agreements regarding the end of WWII | Yalta |
| What political changes took place under Mussolini's rule in Italy? | There was a one-party dictatorship |
| What was the appeal of Mussolini's fascists government to Italians? | The fascists ended political feuding in the government |
| What was a cause of Stalin's Great Purge? | Stalin feared rival party leaders |
| What was a drawback of being among the Soviet elite under Stalin? | The elite often suffered from Stalin's purge |
| What measure did the Nazis take that was a rejection of the Versailles treaty? | The re-armed Germany |
| Which group sharply criticized the Weimar Republic as too weak and longed for another strong leader like Bismark? | Conservative Germans |
| What did the Eastern European nations that were carved out of old European empires after WWI have in common? | They lacked capitol to develop industry |
| Eventually, right-wing dictators emerged in every eastern European country except | Czechoslovakia and Finland |
| What did the Nazi-Soviet pact accomplish for Germany? | It gave germany free hand in Poland |
| What was one reason why the Spanish Civil War was called a dress rehearsal for World War II? | The nazi's used the war to test their new weapons |
| Hitler decided to invade the Soviet Union because | Hitler wanted the countries' natural resources |
| In which French city did German forces set up a "puppet state" capitol after conquering France? | Vichy |
| How did Churchill and Roosevelt give in to Stalin at the conference in Tehran in 1943? | They let the borders in the Nazi-Soviet pact stand |
| What was important about the Battle of the Bulge? | It delayed the Allied advance from the West |
| The German air force was almost grounded by the time of the D-Day invasion because | The Germans had little fuel to to Allied bombings |
| Why did the U.S. adopt the strategy of "island-hopping" in the Pacific? | It allowed them to move gradually towards Japan |
| What was one of Stalin's major goals in Eastern Europe after World War II? | To create a protective buffer zone of friendly governments |
| The Truman Doctrine was rooted in the idea of | Containment |
| The League of Nations voted sanctions against which country for invading Ethiopia in 1935? | Italy |
| Through what action did Hitler violate the Versailles treaty in 1936? | Invaded the Rhine Valley |
| What did the British and French do at the Munich Conference in 1938 to avoid war? | They persuaded the Czechs to surrender the Sudetenland |
| What was usually the first stage of Hitler's Blitzkrieg strategy? | The Luftwaffe attacked ground targets from the air |
| How did the Germans change their tactics in preparing for Operation Sea Lion? | They began to bomb London and other cities from the air |
| What US action influenced the Japanese decision to attack the US IN 1941? | The US banned the sale of iron, steel, and oil to Japan |
| During WWII, "Rosie the Riveter" came to symbolize | The women who worked in US manufacturing plants |
| In 1942, what priority did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin set in the war? | To achieve victory in Europe before trying to achieve victory in Asia |
| What stopped the German advance during the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941? | The terrible winter of 1941-42 |
| What was the Manhattan Project? | A code name for atomic bomb research |
| Who were the Kamikaze? | Japanese pilots whom crashed into allied warships |
| What action did the Western allies take after WWII that caused the Soviets to strengthen their hold on Germany? | They helped Western Germany rebuild its economy |
| What was the importance of the Battle of El Alamein in 1942? | The British stopped the German advances in North Africa |
| What did the Soviet Union do during Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939? | It attacked Poland from the east as part of the Nazi-Soviet pact |
| What happened at Dunkirk in the spring of 1940? | British forces successfully retreated across the English Channel |
| What were the result of prohibition, which was made law in US in 1919? | An increase in organized crime |
| In 1928, Scottish scientist Alexander Fleming discovered | Penicillin |
| How did the League of Nations respond when Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931? | The league condemned Japan so Japan left |
| US president FDR proposed a massive package of Depression relief called the | New Deal |
| What were the key characteristics of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? | supremacy of the state |
| How were Stalin's collective farms run? | Peasants worked on them and all tools were turned into the government |
| Stalin attempted to make the cultural life of the Soviet Union more Russian by promoting a policy | Russification |
| Why did France occupy Germany's coal-rich Ruhr Valley in 1923? | Germany had fallen behind in reparations |
| What 1924 agreement reduced Germany reparations and provided US loans to Germany? | Dawes Plan |
| In 1935, the Nazis passed the Nuremberg Laws which | Deprived Jews of German Citizenship |
| What events could be described as a conservative reaction to the rapid changes in the US after WWI? | Prohibition Act and Christian movement, the Scopes Trial |
| Sigmund Freud's method of studying how the mind works and treating mental disorders is called | Psychoanalysis |
| What were the results of the work of Marie Curie and Albert Einstein? | The discovery of atomic fission |
| In Britain during the 1920s, the Labour party supported? | A move toward socialism |
| What was the state of the economy of the US in the 1920s? | The economy was in a boom, US was the world's leading power |
| In the early 1930s, what contributed to the spread of economic problems around the world? | Governments raised tariffs to protect their economies and the great depression |
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