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What was an underlying problem with post WWI european powers?
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Huge War Debts
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think economics
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How were borders setlled after WWI
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Locarno treaties
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Name a strong obstacle to peace:
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The League of Nations had no power to stop wars and countries taking selfish actions
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Name economic problems that lead to the great depression
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1. Overproduction
2. Margin buying |
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When were the Irish granted independence
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1922
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What is the Maginot Line?
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A long line of fortifications across the French border with Germany
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germany's border
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What was the "Red Scare" and when was it?
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The red scare was a fear of Bolshevik communism, police rounded up foreigners and suspected communists for deportation. 1919 & 1920
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What was the New Deal?
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A series of reforms that gave the government control over finances, aided farmers and the unemployed and gave social security.
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US Great Depression policy
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What is the name of a famous physician?
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Sigmund Freud
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a ___ slip
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Freud explored what area of thought?
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The subconscious thought
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What were flappers?
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Flappers were women who wore bobed hair and short skirts, they.
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What were Mussolini's economic policies like?
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The government had control over all industry, laborers can't stike of
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What was more important under fascism the state or the individual.
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The individual is only as important as he is to the state.
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What are differences between communism and fascism?
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1. Fascists work with private businesses, communists control them
2. Fascists have nationalistic goal, communists have dreams of world revolution 3. Fascists appeal to business leaders, wealthy landowners and the lower middle class. Communists appeal to urban and agricultural workers |
1. businesses
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In 1919, what form of German government was created?
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The Weimar republic
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What work did Hitler write in prison?
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The Mein Kampf
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When was Hitler elected chancellor?
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1933
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Why didn't the nazi's like christians?
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They were loyal to God first
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Why werent Jews and Gypsies liked?
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They were impurities to the Aryan race
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When did Japan take manchuria?
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1931
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What is appeasement?
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Giving in to the demands of the aggressor to keep peace.
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What is the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis?
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The axis powers united to defeat the Soviet communism, they also agreed not to interfere with eachothers plans for expansion
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When did Spain lose its king?
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1931
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Same year Japan takes manchuria
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What is the Anschluss and when did it occur?
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The annexation or "unification of Germany and Austria. 1938
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What is critical about the Nazi Soviet Pact?
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The enemies agreed to peace and planned to divide up poland and eastern europe.
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When was Poland invaded by Germany?
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Sept 1 1939. Then, Britian and France entered the war to protect Poland.
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What is Blitzkrieg?
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Hitlers strategy. Bomb using planes then follow up with tanks and troops.
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What was the Miracle of Dunkirk?
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The rescue of 300.000 troops from Dunkirk and Ostend, ferryign them to Britain.
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In what year did France fall?
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1940
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How was technology in warfare improved?
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Invention of Sonar and Radar
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When did the London Blitz occur?
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1940 -- August
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When was the Lend Lease act passed?
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1941
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same year as pearl harbor
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When was Pearl Harbor bombed
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1941
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same as passing of lend lease act
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Why is the battle of El Alamein significant?
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Because it allowed for Allied powers to remove axis from north africa and begin fighting up through Italy
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When was D-Day
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June 6, 1944
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When were the battles of Midway and the Coral Sea
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1942
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When was the battle of the bulge?
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1944
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same as d-day
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When was V-E-day?
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May 8, 1945
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When were the a-bombs dropped
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1. Hiroshima August 6, 1945
2. Nagaskai August 8, 1945 |
2 days apart
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Where were war crimes trials held in Europe?
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Nuremburg
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When was the UN formed?
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April 1945
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Who has Veto power?
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Fr. US. Br. Ch. Ru.
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How was Japan affected politically by the occupation?
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The emperor loses power. Can't deeclare war as per new constitution of 1946. Power to the Diet
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