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History of Europe
CMS 6th: Nazism and Cold War
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What happened to people that spoke out against Hitler? | put in prison or killed |
| How did Hitler use propaganda to sway German public's opinion about Jewish people? | It placed blame for all of Germany's problems stemming from WWI on Jewish people |
| What is anti-Semitism? | Prejudice against Jewish people |
| What did Hitler plan to do to all races he considered inferior? (Not Aryan) | Exterminate them |
| The Holocaust occurred during which war? | World War II |
| Describe the Holocaust | Jews were taken to concentration camps where they were forced to do hard labor, starved, separated from families and executed in gas chambers |
| What are the dates of the Cold War? | 1945-1991 |
| Which two superpowers engaged in the Cold War? | United States and Soviet Union |
| What was the Cold War about? | US and USSR were both worried the other country would become too powerful and spread its government and economy to other countries |
| After WWII, countries in which part of Europe fell under the influence of Communist Soviet Union? | Eastern Europe |
| What was the imaginary line that divided democratic countries from communist countries? | The Iron Curtain |
| What type of government did West Germany and West Berlin have? | Democratic |
| What type of government did East Germany and East Berlinehave? | Communist |
| What was the purpose of the Berlin wall? | To keep communist East Berlin separated from democratic West Berlin |
| Name some ways the United States and the Soviet Union competed with one another during the Cold War. | Spreading government and economic system to other countries, nuclear weapons build up (called the arms race), put a man in space (space race) |
| How did this competition impact the Soviet Union's economy? | Defense, weapons build up, and space race cost the country a lot of money and not enough food or goods for the people |
| What happened to East and West Germany once the Soviet Union started allowing more personal and economic freedoms? | Reunified into one country with Berlin as the capital. |
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