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Extra Credit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did Stalin Initiate Five Year Plans in the soviet union? | Stalin believed (with Lenin) that the USSR should ‘overtake and outstrip the capitalist countries’. He believed in ‘Socialism in one country’ – the USSR would become strong enough to survive, then would take over the rest of the world. |
| What is the Sudentland? | The northwest, southwest, and western parts of czechoslovakia. |
| what was Prime Minister Chamberlains Policy of appeasement? | |
| Why did Britain and France declare war on Germany? | |
| What is th e"Mukden Incident? | |
| In 1940, Japan was forced to decide what it needed most. What was it? | |
| Why was the evacuation of Dunrik so important to the allies? | |
| Define Blitzkrieg. | |
| After signing a treaty with stalin, why did hitler decide to invade the soviet union? | |
| What was the outcome of the battle at stalingrad? | |
| What was the significance of the battle of Midway Island? | |
| Who was Heimrich Himler? | |
| Define the term Einsatzgruppen. | |
| What ethnic groups were victims of the holocaust? | |
| What was a major outcome of the tehran conference? | |
| What did allies insist at the Yalta Conference? | |
| What was the goal of President Truman at the Postdam Conference? | |
| Why did President Truman decide to use the Atomic Bomb? | |
| What was the goal of the Marshall Plan? Warsaw Pact? | |
| How could you define the Cold War? | |
| When did Mao Zedong come to power to China? | |
| What was the objective of the Truman Doctrine? | |
| In 1965, the Egyptian leader Nasser precipitated an international crisis by doing what? | |
| What were some of the consequences of the Six day War? | |
| What is pan-Africanism? |