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5665695785What government did the Treaty of Versailles (TOV) appoint to lead Germany after WW1?Democrat, Weimar Republic0
5665698555Why was the TOV unsuccessful? What did it create?Created resentment, upsetting Germany1
5665703589What is the best way to describe a Totalitarian state?Government is supreme and individuals have little to no rights.2
5665706616How did Nazism differ from Fascism and communism?Nazi is racist and anti-sematic3
5665712994List 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
5665717002What was going on in the world that allowed these totalitarian governments to come to power?Economic depression5
5665720072List the countries Nazi Germany took prior to WW1Rhineland, Czech.6
5665722545Why was Hitler so appealing to the German people after WW1?Gave hope, eliminated opponents, great speaker, camps were undesirable, gave them scapegoats for troubles7
5665728198Japan invaded Manchuria in 1931 for similar reasons that the Nazi invaded Russia during WW1. What is the reason?raw materials8
5665735940Explain the policy of appeasement.accepting the demanded of the aggressor to the war9
5665740623What message did Churchill send by delivering a speech?Britain will not surrender to Germany10
5665749312What 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
5665766647Whats Operation Barbarossa? Who started it? What the result?Barbarossa is the invasion of the soviet union. Didn't go well.12
5665769878What were the Allies after Pearl Harbor?Great Britain, U.S, Russia13
5665772331What were the Axis after Pearl Harbor?Germany, Japan , Italy14
5665774902What were the major turning points in the battle for Europe in WW2?Battle of Stalingrad and Operation of Torch15
5665779064When, where, and by whom was the largest amphibious invasion?D-day June 6,1944 in France by the allies.16
5665781140Whats the Manhattan project?Developing of the atomic bomb17
5665785322Which nation was the first to capture Berlin in WW2?USSR and Soviet Union18
5665788481What was the turning point in the Pacific theater of WW2?Battle of Midway19
5665794159Why did Harry S. Truman decided to drop the bombs on Japan?Military, anger racial, political, scientific20
5665800631What did the world learn of after Allied forces began liberating Europe from the Nazis?Holocaust, plans and detail21
5665804582What permanent country did this create, why and who sanctioned the creation?Israel wanted homeland for Jews22
5665806473Describe how the Soviet command economy works.Government controls what bought and sold and how much of it23
5665811647What doctrine created the policy of containment, relative to communism following WW1?Truman Doctrine24
5665814464Who predicted it and what did he call it?Iron curtain, Churchill created it25
5665816472What sphere was under influence of the USA?USSR?USA controlled West, USSR controlled East26
5665822107Explain the two aims were for the US and USSR in relation for the post-war Europe.US wanted to rebuild Germany keep them weak27
5665827901What happened to Germany following WW2 in terms of its territory and control?Divided into 4 different zones28
5665832186Explain the Berlin Airlift and what symbol was built because of it 1961 that would define the Cold War.Berlin wall was built, supplying west29
5665833740Why was the Marshall Plan so successful?Created Allies30
5665839316What 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 rebuilding31
5665861497What 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 also32
5666170513What was the most important military strategy of the cold war?nuclear missles33
5665866300Whats the best way to describe the Cold War?tensions between super powers34
5665874321Who won the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962? How?the whole world, missles were removed from Cuba and Turkey35
5665877753Define M A DMutually Assured Distruction36
5665880837How did the theory of MAD prevent another World War from happening?Eye for an Eye, if someone did something, they did it back37
5665883139What was the space race? Who won and how?Technological competition, US won, 196938
5665885765Who sent the first satellite into space? What was its name?Soviets and Sputnik39
5665888469What was Yuri Gagarin's response to being up in space?Earth is blue40
5665895623What was the symbolic end to the Cold War? Who won?United States won, Berlin Wall41

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