Events (Exam #2)

Question 1

Beer Hall Putsch

Answer 1

(1923) Munich

Hitler’s failed putsch, or coup d’etat

Question 2

Hyperinflation in Germany

Answer 2

(1923) Futile attempt to pay off war debts from WWI

Question 3

Great Depression

Answer 3

(Oct., 1929)

Question 4

Jan. 30, 1933

Answer 4

Hitler becomes chancellor

Question 5

Reichstag Fire

Answer 5

(Feb. 27, 1933)

Question 6

Hitler declares himself Führer

Answer 6

(Aug. 1, 1934) Führer combines power of the president and chancellor

Question 7

Invasion of Poland

Answer 7

(Sept. 1, 1939) Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland, causing WWII

Question 8

Book burnings

Answer 8

(May, 1933) Authors include Einstein, Marx, and London

Question 9

Exhibition of Degenerate Art

Answer 9

(July 1938) Munich

Purpose: make people dislike this type of art

Backfired because people just went to reminisce before the art pieces disappeared forever

Question 10

boycott

Answer 10

(19 ) Occurred during first stage of Jewish persecution

Hitler ordered the boycott of Jewish businesses, but nobody listened

Question 11

Kristallnacht

Answer 11

(Nov. 9, 1938) “Night of Broken Glass”

Question 12

Operation Barbarossa

Answer 12

(June 22, 1941)

Question 13

Babi Yar

Answer 13

(Sept. 29, 1941) Located in Ukraine near Kiev.

Question 14

Wannsee Conference

Answer 14

(Jan. 20, 1942) Created the Final Solution

Question 15

VE Day and VJ Day

Answer 15

VE (May 8, 1945)

VJ (Sept. 2, 1945)

Question 16

Pearl Harbor

Answer 16

(Dec. 7, 1941) US forced into WWII

Question 17

First meeting

Answer 17

(Aug. 1941) Newfoundland

Atlantic Charter -

Question 18

Second meeting

Answer 18

(Dec. 1943) Tehran

Question 19

Third meeting

Answer 19

(Oct. 1944) Moscow

Percentages Agreement, which Roosevelt dubbed “naughty doc”

Question 20

Fourth meeting

Answer 20

(Feb. 1945) Yalta

Question 21

Fifth meeting

Answer 21

(July 1945) Potsdam

Question 22

the split of Germany

Answer 22

(1949) Federal Republic of Germany (west) and German Democratic Republic (east)

Question 23

Berlin Wall begins construction

Answer 23

(1961)

Question 24

Nov. 9, 1989

Answer 24

Fall of the Berlin Wall and end of the Cold War

Question 25

Chinese Communist Party takes over China

Answer 25

(1949)

Question 26

Geneva Conference

Answer 26

(Apr. 1954) Vietnam’s fate after the French left:

1. ) Vietnam divided into north (Ho Chi Minh) and south (Ngo Dinh Diem)
2. ) 1956 multiparty elections will reunite Vietnam

Question 27

Second Indochina War

Answer 27

(1957 - Apr., 1975)

North and south Vietnam conflicted over politics

North Vietnam, funded by Soviet Union, conquers south and creates Socialist Republic of Vietnam with Communist Party of Vietnam

Question 28

First Indochina War

Answer 28

(1946-1954) Viet Minh fought against French troops, who tried to reclaim Vietnam after Japanese left

Last battle Dien Bien Phu (Mar. - May, 1954), where French lost to guerrilla warfare

Question 29

Dien Bien Phu

Answer 29

(Mar. - May, 1954) Concluding battle in First Indochina War

French lost to guerrilla warfare

Question 30

Vietnam War

Answer 30

(1965 - Jan. 1975) US involvement in the Second Indochina War

Question 31

Korean War

Answer 31

(1950 - 1953) Truce at the end reaffirms 38th parallel