Chapter 21

Question 1

Holocaust

Answer 1

genocide by Hitler-killing the Jews

Question 2

date & major cause of Great Depression

Answer 2

October 1929–bought stock on credit & couldn’t repay loans

Question 3

Tehran Conference

Answer 3

Allies met to make plans for post-WWII

Question 4

totalitarian state

Answer 4

leaders completely control lives of citizens

Question 5

Mein Kampf

Answer 5

Hitler’s book–blamed Jews for Germany’s troubles

Question 6

Nazi Party’s cause of growth

Answer 6

voters were mad & afraid

Question 7

South Vietnam’s refusal to hold elections

Answer 7

afraid Communists would win

Question 8

cash & carry policy

Answer 8

U.S. helped Britain early in WWII–let them buy our supplies

Question 9

Hiroshima

Answer 9

Japanese city destroyed by first atomic bomb

Question 10

leader of Chinese communists

Answer 10

Mao Zedong

Question 11

FDR’s plan for social programs during depression

Answer 11

New Deal

Question 12

protested in India using non-violent methods

Answer 12

Mohandas Gandhi

Question 13

why Britain & France declared war on Germany

Answer 13

b/c Hitler broke his promises from Treaty of Versailles

Question 14

Truman Doctrine

Answer 14

said U.S. would fight the spread of communism

Question 15

appeasement (who & why)

Answer 15

Britain & France tried to keep Hitler happy to avoid war

Question 16

as money loses value, prices go up

Answer 16

inflation

Question 17

D-Day

Answer 17

U.S. (Allied) attack in Normandy against Germans

Question 18

containment

Answer 18

stop the spread of communism

Question 19

German death camp in Poland

Answer 19

Auschwitz

Question 20

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 20

leader of communists in Vietnam

Question 21

non-aggression pact in 1939 (who & why)

Answer 21

Germany (Hitler) & Soviet Union (Stalin) agreed to split Poland & not attack each other