Lists (Exam #2)

Question 1

Hitler’s lessons in Vienna

Answer 1

1. ) Politicians manipulate using human emotions (Freud)

2. ) Appeal to anti-semitism (Leuger)

Question 2

Hitler’s policies in trying to achieve Volksgemeinschaft

Answer 2

1. ) Cultural policy
   - Hitler made Goebbels lead the Reich Ministry of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment
   - (May 1933) Book burnings and art lootings
   - Showed that Gleichschaltung can’t be 100% achieved
2. ) “bribery through the stomach”
   - Tried to buy people’s loyalty with consumer goods (Volkswagen)
   - “Strength through Joy” led by Robert Ley
3. ) Euthanasia Program
   - Summer 1939: systematic killing of people
   - Paraldehyde, carbon monoxide, then zyklon B
   - Action T4 (ended 1941)
4. ) Jewish persecution (1933 - 1945)
   - 4 periods

Question 3

Burned book authors

Answer 3

Einstein, Marx, London

Question 4

Degenerate artists

Answer 4

Klee, Kandinsky, Picasso

Question 5

New German artists

Answer 5

Ziegler, Wissel, Breker

Question 6

Periods of Jewish persecution

Answer 6

1. ) (1933-1934) Unsuccessful boycott, then job discriminating laws
2. ) (1935-1938) Nuremburg laws encouraged Jews to leave country
3. ) (1938-1941) Kristallnacht, concentration camps, Generalgouvernment, ghettos, Madagascar Plan, and Babi Yar
4. ) (1941-1945) extermination camps from the Final Solution, obtained from Wannsee Conference (Jan. 20, 1942)

Question 7

Other targeted groups

Answer 7

Criminals, communists, socialists, “work-shy,” Jehovah’s Witnesses, gays, Roma, Slavs

Question 8

Other genocides since Holocaust

Answer 8

1.) Rwanda, Cambodia, former Yugoslavia, Darfur

Question 9

Reasons for division between US and Soviet Union

Answer 9

1.) Polar political/economic differences and mutual threat to completely annihiliate the other

Question 10

5 meetings

Answer 10

1. ) (Aug. 1941) Newfoundland
   - Only 2 leaders
   - Atlantic Charter
2. ) (Dec. 1943) Tehran
   - 3 leaders
   - Demilitarization of Germany only, not division
   - Moving Poland’s borders westward
3. ) (Oct. 1944) Moscow
   - Averell Harriman represents US
   - Percentages Agreement
4. ) (Feb. 1945) Yalta
   - Confirmed Tehran/Moscow decisions
   - Split Germany into 4 occupation zones
5. ) (July 1945) Potsdam
   - Truman
   - Reconfirmed previous decisions