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In the years after World War I

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the unresolved problems of the time helped lead to World War II

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In the immediate aftermath of World War I (none of these)

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-German reparations payments prevented any serious economic difficulties in Britain and France -international trade was quickly reestablished -the major currencies of the victorious powers retained most of their pre-World War I purchasing power

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The German government established in the aftermath of World War I was known as the

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Weimar Republic

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Of the major countries after World War I, which one suffered the worst inflation

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Germany

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During the 1920s, Germany

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seemed to be prosperous and peaceful, joining the League of Nations and signing treaties with Belgium and France

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A leading institution for the development of modern architecture was the Bauhaus, located in

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Germany

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Eastern European countries in the late 1920s

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for the most part became nationalistic dictatorships

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The anti-liberal political ideology that arose in Italy after World War I was

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Facism

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After World War I, Italy

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suffered from a weak economy and considerable political and social unrest

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* The founder of Fascism was

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Mussolini

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Fascist Italy under Mussolini

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was concerned more with the appearance of power than with political and economic reality

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* After the Russian Revolution Lenin

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permitted small-scale capitalism with the NEP (New Economic Policy)

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Before Stalin, the Soviet Union in the 1920's

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in spite of its proclaimed equality, permitted Communist Party members, the military, and the intellectual elite to enjoy a higher standard of living

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After several years of political maneuvering, ________ emerged as the successor of Lenin

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Stalin

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* The Five Year Plans were

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Stalin's ideas for rapid increase of industrial production in the Soviet Union

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The collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union

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led to peasant resistance and a famine that took 4-6 million lives

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* Stalin's Great Purge

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was directed especially against members of the Communist party

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The Great Depression (none of these)

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-occurred after WWII -occurred only in the U.S.; Europe was spared serious economic problems -was caused by Stalin's Five Years Plan

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European and American governments during the Great Depression

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usually tried to unsuccessful policy of balancing budgets and raising tariffs to protect domestic jobs

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The National Socialist German Workers' Party

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was, in spite of its name, not traditionally socialist nor did it appeal much to urban workers

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NOT a doctrine of the Nazi Party

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making Germany a truly democratic state

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Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany

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because the Nazi Party had become the largest political party in Germany by 1930

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* The appeal of the Nazi Party in Germany

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was surprisingly broad-to youth, displaced World War I veterans, and the lower middle class

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As part of the effort to control Germany, the Nazi party did all of the following except

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promote jazz and modern art

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As part of his plans for military expansion, Hitler

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-developed a secret four-year plan for German rearmament -took Germany out of the League of Nations and the Geneva Disarmament Conference -abolished independent labor unions and created the Nazi Labor Front

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* The conflicts that led to World War II began outside of Europe with

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the Japanese invasion of Manchuria

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The Civil War in Spain

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became an international war when Hitler and Mussolini sent men and equipment to aid Franco

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Between 1936 and 1939 Hitler invaded or annexed all of the following areas except

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Manchuria

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The European country that was partially dismembered at the Munich conference was

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Czechoslovakia

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Fear of another great war led Britain and France in 1938

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to appease Hitler at Munich, giving him part of Czechoslovakia

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World War II started on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of

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Poland

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The term blitzkrieg developed during World War II because

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Germany developed tactics of air strikes and rapid penetration of opponents' lines with tanks

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France in WWII

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was overwhelmed by German forces early in the war, leaving Britain isolated

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World War II took a decisive turn in June, 1941, when Hitler invaded

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Russia

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The text attributes Japan's military behavior in Asia especially

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to the domination of the Japanese government by ultranationalists and the military

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The most important target of Hitler's racism program were the

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Jews

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During World War II Auschwitz became famous as

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the largest of the famous extermination camps

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On the home front in World War II

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-the U.S. increased its military production by 400% in two years -Russia dismantled factories threatened by Germany invasion and rebuilt them elsewhere -Germany relied on spoils form its conquests and labor conscripted there, not turning into full war mobilization until 1942

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* Probably the greatest battle of World War II, leading to the total destruction of the German army engaged there, took place at

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Stalingrad

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* The famous D-Day invasion took place at

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Normandy

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* The Japanese city destroyed by the first atomic bomb was

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Hiroshima

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