Europe-IR,, WW1, WW2

Question 1

Factory

Answer 1

A supply of workers, the building they work in and the equipment they work with.

Question 2

Union(def. and why created)

Answer 2

Groups formed to bargain with factory owners for better working conditions and higher pay for workers

Question 3

Assembly line

Answer 3

A line of factory workers and equipment along which a product passes from person to person until completed.

Question 4

Strike

Answer 4

Happens when workers are not getting treated fairly, and they refuse to work

Question 5

Why did the industrial revolution start in England

5 reasons

Answer 5

1. workshop of the world
2. many people
3. natural resources
4. wool and imported cotton
5. canals, cities on water

Question 6

Positives and negatives of the industrial revolution

3 each

Answer 6

\+  Made consumer goods, like clothes, for lower prices 
\+  Inventions!
\+  Rise of middle class
-  12-14 hour days 
-  child labor 
-  dangerous conditions

Question 7

Significance of the POWDER KEG…

How was Europe a POWDER KEG before WW1?

Answer 7

Increased rivalry among nations, alliances formed, constant competition - referred to as the POWDER KEG.

BECAUSE…at any moment it would erupt into war - countries fighting over power and war

Question 8

Main cause of WW1?

The spark that lit the POWDER KEG

Answer 8

June 28, 1914 assignation of Archduke Frank Ferdinand

May 7, 1915 German sinking of the British, Lusitania (100 US)

Question 9

Why did the US get involved in WW1?

Why did the US get involved in WW2?

Answer 9

WW1 - Lusitania, 1200 civilians died, 100 Americans
WW2 - Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Take home message, we get involved when Americans die.

Question 10

Central vs. allied powers WW1

List each

Answer 10

Allies: US, UK, France, Russia
Central: Germane, Italy, Austrian-Hungarian Empire

Question 11

New technology used during WW1

Answer 11

Tanks, heavy artillery, machine guns, airplanes

Question 12

Connection between the Industrial Revolution and WW1?

List 3

Answer 12

Countries

1. were power hungry
2. needed more resources to feed their own industries
3. wanted each other’s technologies.

Question 13

Effects of WW1 - name 4

Answer 13

1. Mass produced technology
2. Millions are killed, homeless, wounded and hungry
3. Treaty of Versailles
4. US and Japan rise in power

Question 14

Treaty of Versailles: 2 things it declared, Impact

Answer 14

1. Germany had to admit responsibility for starting WW1
2. Required Central powers (mainly Germany)to pay $33 billion
   Impact -
   banned German Air Force and Navy, limited their Army to 100,000
   contributed to economic depression around the world

Question 15

Communism

Answer 15

A political theory created by Karl Marx, where goods and properties are shared in common.

Question 16

Holocaust: What was it? How many lives lost?

Answer 16

The holocaust was the killing of Jews and others by the Nazis.
Around 6 million Jews, 17 million total people

Question 17

Concentration Camp

Answer 17

Is where Jews and others (such as the disabled) were sent to be tortured and killed.

Question 18

Genocide

Answer 18

The mass murder of a group of people based on religion, race, culture, political choice or ethnicity

Question 19

Why were Jews the scapegoats of the Germans?

Answer 19

Because the Germans blamed the Jews for their financial troubles.

Question 20

Anti-Semitism

Answer 20

Hostility or prejudice against the Jews. Nazis believed the Jews were a sub-human, inferior race.

Question 21

Reason Britain & France declared war on Germany, WW2

Answer 21

September 3, 1939 when Germany invaded Poland.

Question 22

Reason the US got involved in WW2

Answer 22

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, immediately followed by Germany declaring war on the US.

Question 23

Event that ended WW2

Answer 23

The US dropped 2 atomic bombs on Japan, including “Little Boy”

Question 24

WW2 countries in Allies and Axis Powers, with major leaders

Answer 24

Allies: US (Franklin Delanor Roosevelt & Harry Truman) UK (Winston Churchill), USSR (Joseph Stalin), China (Chiangmai Kia-Shek)
Axis: Germany (Adolph Hitler), Italy (Mussolini), Japan (Tojo)

Question 25

Turning point, climax, of WW2

Answer 25

Invasion of Normandy, D-Day

Question 26

Marshall Plan - 2 goals

Answer 26

1. Main goal to rebuild Europe after WW2.

2. US loaned money to European countries in the hope of preventing the spread of communism.