5665695785 | What government did the Treaty of Versailles (TOV) appoint to lead Germany after WW1? | Democrat, Weimar Republic | 0 | |
5665698555 | Why was the TOV unsuccessful? What did it create? | Created resentment, upsetting Germany | 1 | |
5665703589 | What is the best way to describe a Totalitarian state? | Government is supreme and individuals have little to no rights. | 2 | |
5665706616 | How did Nazism differ from Fascism and communism? | Nazi is racist and anti-sematic | 3 | |
5665712994 | List 4 Totalitarian States that came to power in the 1920s and the 1930s and name their leaders? | 1. Benito Mussolini (Italy) 2. Joseph Stalin (Russia) 3. Prime Minister Tojo (Japanese Empire) 4. Adolf Hitler (Germany) | 4 | |
5665717002 | What was going on in the world that allowed these totalitarian governments to come to power? | Economic depression | 5 | |
5665720072 | List the countries Nazi Germany took prior to WW1 | Rhineland, Czech. | 6 | |
5665722545 | Why was Hitler so appealing to the German people after WW1? | Gave hope, eliminated opponents, great speaker, camps were undesirable, gave them scapegoats for troubles | 7 | |
5665728198 | Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 for similar reasons that the Nazi invaded Russia during WW1. What is the reason? | raw materials | 8 | |
5665735940 | Explain the policy of appeasement. | accepting the demanded of the aggressor to the war | 9 | |
5665740623 | What message did Churchill send by delivering a speech? | Britain will not surrender to Germany | 10 | |
5665749312 | What conference did Hitler claim he had no more territorial claims? What following invasion prompted the start of WW2? | Munich conference. The Germans invaded Poland. | 11 | |
5665766647 | Whats Operation Barbarossa? Who started it? What the result? | Barbarossa is the invasion of the soviet union. Didn't go well. | 12 | |
5665769878 | What were the Allies after Pearl Harbor? | Great Britain, U.S, Russia | 13 | |
5665772331 | What were the Axis after Pearl Harbor? | Germany, Japan , Italy | 14 | |
5665774902 | What were the major turning points in the battle for Europe in WW2? | Battle of Stalingrad and Operation of Torch | 15 | |
5665779064 | When, where, and by whom was the largest amphibious invasion? | D-day June 6,1944 in France by the allies. | 16 | |
5665781140 | Whats the Manhattan project? | Developing of the atomic bomb | 17 | |
5665785322 | Which nation was the first to capture Berlin in WW2? | USSR and Soviet Union | 18 | |
5665788481 | What was the turning point in the Pacific theater of WW2? | Battle of Midway | 19 | |
5665794159 | Why did Harry S. Truman decided to drop the bombs on Japan? | Military, anger racial, political, scientific | 20 | |
5665800631 | What did the world learn of after Allied forces began liberating Europe from the Nazis? | Holocaust, plans and detail | 21 | |
5665804582 | What permanent country did this create, why and who sanctioned the creation? | Israel wanted homeland for Jews | 22 | |
5665806473 | Describe how the Soviet command economy works. | Government controls what bought and sold and how much of it | 23 | |
5665811647 | What doctrine created the policy of containment, relative to communism following WW1? | Truman Doctrine | 24 | |
5665814464 | Who predicted it and what did he call it? | Iron curtain, Churchill created it | 25 | |
5665816472 | What sphere was under influence of the USA?USSR? | USA controlled West, USSR controlled East | 26 | |
5665822107 | Explain the two aims were for the US and USSR in relation for the post-war Europe. | US wanted to rebuild Germany keep them weak | 27 | |
5665827901 | What happened to Germany following WW2 in terms of its territory and control? | Divided into 4 different zones | 28 | |
5665832186 | Explain the Berlin Airlift and what symbol was built because of it 1961 that would define the Cold War. | Berlin wall was built, supplying west | 29 | |
5665833740 | Why was the Marshall Plan so successful? | Created Allies | 30 | |
5665839316 | What would both the United States and the Soviet Union offer countries that needed help developing and rebuilding after WW2? | saw military and economic AID for rebuilding | 31 | |
5665861497 | What was the goal of the Soviet Union in establishing satellite nations in Eastern Europe during the Cold War? | established control in East Europe & established communism also | 32 | |
5666170513 | What was the most important military strategy of the cold war? | nuclear missles | 33 | |
5665866300 | Whats the best way to describe the Cold War? | tensions between super powers | 34 | |
5665874321 | Who won the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? How? | the whole world, missles were removed from Cuba and Turkey | 35 | |
5665877753 | Define M A D | Mutually Assured Distruction | 36 | |
5665880837 | How did the theory of MAD prevent another World War from happening? | Eye for an Eye, if someone did something, they did it back | 37 | |
5665883139 | What was the space race? Who won and how? | Technological competition, US won, 1969 | 38 | |
5665885765 | Who sent the first satellite into space? What was its name? | Soviets and Sputnik | 39 | |
5665888469 | What was Yuri Gagarin's response to being up in space? | Earth is blue | 40 | |
5665895623 | What was the symbolic end to the Cold War? Who won? | United States won, Berlin Wall | 41 |
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