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unit 2 historys
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Name the first real failure of the Vienna Settlement or Treaty. | military- russian commanders and logistics were less competent than allies |
| Which czar in Russia freed the serfs? | Tsar Alexander II |
| What modern political tool did Louis Napoleon use to help him become the emperor of France? | propaganda |
| Discuss the origins of the Franco-Prussian War. | France and prussia |
| What common elements did all Frenchmen agree upon after the Franco-Prussian War. | gain revenge on biskmark germany and regaining lost province of Alsace and Lorraine |
| Who was the “father of Italian unification”? | Camillo Cavour |
| List & discuss characteristics that led Otto von Bismarck to become the outstanding statesman of the 19th-century. | ability to use germany's rising sense of nationalism to bring about the creation of single, powerful national state (germany). unify germany. Deception, manipulative |
| Define real politik. | politics based on practical considerations |
| What was the Paris Commune? | a leftist revolt aganist the national govt after france was defeated by Prussia in 1871; curshed by the conservatives with much blood shed. uprising against the imperial government that had lost a war. |
| How did Italians view Giuseppe Garibaldi? | a hero, object of worship |
| How does natural selection apply to Darwinian theory? | plants and animals evolved from unknown ancestors |
| Who is credited with the Theory of Relativity? | einstein |
| Pavlov used what type of animals for his behavioral experiments? | dogs |
| B.F. Skinner and William James were ardent disciples of whom? | |
| Discuss the purpose of the study of sociology. | law of physical behavior, humans are species |
| Who were the Nonconformists? | (british) proestants who did not "conform" to the Anglican Credo- Methodists, Presbyterians, Quakers and Unitarians |
| What did the Catholic encyclical Rerum Novarum support? | social justice for the poor working class and denouncing atheistic socalism |
| Define cultural relativism. | a belief that there is no absolute values to measure contrasting cultures |
| What is the Uncertainty Principle? | modern theory in physics that denies absolute casual relationships of mater , predictability |
| Discuss the outcome of Otto von Bismarck’s attacks on the German Catholic Church. | the church emerged stronger than ever and founded a political party and caused catholics and protestants to reexamine their basis of literal belief. middle class-refused to tithe european working class-stopped going to church |
| How is the state (or nation) viewed in a totalitarian state? | total control over public life and intervention into the private lives of society. Create a state-layality to the leader is a supreme virtue |
| Define the phrase “thinking with the blood.” | thinking in terms of survival and lack of rationalism rather than with logic |
| According to the text, what was the “universal blight” for eastern Europeans in the post-World War 1 period? | chauvinist nationalism |
| Why did labor leaders call the 1926 general strike in Great Britain. | |
| Discuss the Locarno Pact. | agreement between france and germany in 1925, alowed Germany to join the League of Nations in return for its promise to accept its frontier w/ Fance and Belgium as permanent |
| Comment on the overall international mood by the end of the 1920s. | hopeful |
| How did Mussolini come to power in Italy? | march on rome |
| Why could political parties be eliminated in a totalitarian regime? | b/c the "leaders" were the sould interpreter, the parties would confuse people and negate their true welface. THey woudl try to do things that should be in the hands of the leaders. |
| Discuss the Dawes Plan. | proposal by U.S. financiers to ensures Germanys recover and payment of reparations. |
| What was “chauvinist nationalism”? | ? universal blight of the eartern europeans. |
| What did Britain’s Labour Party come into existence? | |
| How did World War 1 impact America in a positive manner? | |
| Why did the Czarist government in Russia collapse after World War 1? | |
| Which Russian leader advocated “Land, Bread, Peace”? | Lenin |
| Discuss the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. | separate peace between central powers and lenin government in russia |
| Discuss the essence of Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP). | in place of war communism. encouraged small scale capitalist business &profit seekers while retaining "commanding heights" national economy in states hand introduced @end of civil war allowed 4limited capilism &private enterprise in soviet union |
| How could the Russian peasants view their “revolution” as a success? | |
| What was the main purpose of Stalin’s collectivization? | peasants began to hold back their grain until they could get better prices in state controlled markets. stalin used this precieved "betrayal" as a reason to tstart the drive for agricultural collectivization and rapid industrization |
| Discuss the goal of Stalin’s Five Year Plans. | to collectivize agriculture & industrailize the economy of the SU the age old resistance of private landholders to any kind of govt supervision would be broken. increase in investment. organization and efforts would enable total integration of citizenry |
| Describe Joseph Stalin’s political methods. | mofia style |
| What is the Comintern? | international communist organization |
| Define cheka. | abrevation for the first version of the soviet secret poliece |
| Who or what is a kulak? | richer peasants |
| How might Hitler describe his first real sense of belonging to a cause? | being in the war. starting the national socialist german workers party |
| How did the failed 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich help Hitler? | failed attempt by hitler to come to power by armed forces. Promised himself he would come to power by constitutional, legal means |
| What book did Hitler write as his “call to arms”? | |
| What were the key themes or Hitler’s ideas set forth in Mein Kampf? | Anti-semitism, rejected Versailles treaty & german war guilt, confiscation of illicit war $, protection of the middle classes land redistribution for the peasant. Hatred 4 existing situation in germany & determination to change it |
| What international phenomenon brought the Nazi Party to power in Germany? | downfall of economy, great depression |
| Discuss Hitler’s rise to power. | |
| What did the Enabling Act, 1933, accomplish? | gave hitlers govt the right to rule by decree |
| Discuss the Nurenburg Laws | detailed who was jewish and what that meant. prohibiting social contact between jews and aryans. made jews non citizens |
| What was the outcome of the Wannsee Conference? | meeting of the natzi leaders that determined a final solution for "Jewish problem" jews were rounded up from ghetto's and sent to death camps in poland |
| Who was Joseph Goebbels? | propagandist, hitlers deputy |
| What was the Aryan race? | person w/ no jewish blood for 2 generations on both sides of their family |
| Discuss the League of Nation’s course of action against aggressive, militaristic nations in the post-WW1 period. | |
| How did western democracies respond to the Spanish Civil War? | refused to take sides and declared an embargo on shipments of arms and materiel to both contestants. In the circumstance this was the same as assisting the rebels led by General Francisco France against the legitimate Spanish government |
| Discuss Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement of Hitler. | |
| Comment on the unique nature of the Battle of Britain. | Fought entirely in the air, and ended with a clear victory for Britain. |
| What was the key discussion at the Yalta Conference? | Conference in 1945 in southern Prussia where Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill (the big 3) met to attempt to settle postwar questions, particularly those affecting the future of Europe |
| What was Operation Barbarossa? | Code name for German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 |
| Discuss Operation Barbarossa as a turning point in World War 2. | |
| Comment on the outcome of the Battle of the Coral Sea. | Naval engagement in the SW Pacific during WWII resulting in the removal of Japanese invasion threat to Australia and british india proved ready to defend itself rather than passively submit as tokyo hoped |
| What was the main issue of the Potsdam Conference? | FREEDOM The goals of the conference also included the establishment of post-war order, peace treaties issues, and countering the effects of war. |
| Discuss the Popular Front in France. | An international campaign orchestrated by the Comintern to assist the outnumbered and outgunned Spanish Loyalists against fascism. (Policy of all antifascist parties inspired by the soviets in the mid 1930 against Hitler) |
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