HIST 150 Ch. 23 – Flashcards

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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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