social quiz

Question 1

great britain national interests pre war and post war

Answer 1

Pre: perserve balance of power (allainces)
- protect empire aka colonies
- ensure belgium neutrality
Post: had two different sides
- public: wanted to punish Germans as the brittain public was very anti-german
- private: needed Germnay to recover as they were a economic trading and needed to protect the more dangerous threat of communisim

Question 2

France national intrests pre and post war

Answer 2

Pre: regain alsace lorane, revenage on Germany for previous war, protect from German expansion and military dominace, assert colonial dommiance and maintain their status as a global power
Post: security (wanted german army gone), revenge (have allsace lorainne) , operations (believed germnay should pay the full cost of the war)

Question 3

Germany national interests pre and post-war

Answer 3

Pre: ambitions to secure place as a global power, industrialization and military, maintain newly gained territory and creating a arms race with Brittain for the largest naval force
Post: not have to pay for reperations of the war and to maintain their territory

Question 4

austria-hungary pre and post war national intrests

Answer 4

pre: gain empire through expanison into balakans
post: did not want to be broken apart

Question 5

italy pre and post war national intrests

Answer 5

pre: wanted to expand terriotry and aquire Italain speaking nations, build economic and colonial empire, and was trying very desperately to be the side of the war that won
Post war: gain Italian territory

Question 6

what was the treaty of brest litovsk

Answer 6

March 1918
russian gov signed a peace treaty with Germany to end involvement in world war one
- Russian gov had no say in the terms of this treaty as they lost large areas of land including Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Blatic states
- Germany threated to resume attacks if they did not sign
- result of russian revolution and developing communist party

Question 7

treaty of versailles key points

Answer 7

• drfated in paris
  allied powers dominated majority Brittain France Italy and the US
• central powers (most importantly Germany) was not able to attend the conference
• it was very difficult to come to a consensus because many countries wanted to promote their own national inrests so many conflicting ideas

Question 8

league of nations/ collective security

Answer 8

collective: agreement between countries to work together to promote peace, if one country is attacked all other promise to help protect it
- main idea of league is too stop wars by having the treat of multiple countries
- it got germany to sign treaty of versailles and resolved minor dispute
- it lacked a large military force (USA)
- did not stop italtys invasion of ethopia
- aim of world self determination disarment and global diplomacy

Question 9

italys invasion of ethipoia and abyssinia

Answer 9

• italy was upset with not being given the german colony of ethipoia so decided to take matters into their own hands leading to ethopian crisis of 1935-36
• considered death blow to league of nations due to failure to stop invasions and inefficiency of sanctions
• directed by Mussolini to take advantage of strategic location
• italians committed countless acts of human right violations

Question 10

what is appeasement

Answer 10

diplomatic policy of making politcal and terriotrial concessions to aggressive power to avoid conflict

Question 11

what is sudetenland

Answer 11

• part of czechoslovkia that belonged to Germany pre war and had a lot of German citizens
• hitler made a agreement not to expand any further into czech so takeover when unchallenged

Question 12

Munich agreement

Answer 12

czech must surrender its borders regions an ddense
germany Italy great brittain and France had signed this

Question 13

why did hitler want lebensraum

Answer 13

• in his vision belived Germans would need more living space
• goal to remove slavic and jewish population
• reunite all ethnically German neighbors
• transform german nation into world power, make country economically self suffeint and military dominant

Question 14

what is ultranationalism and equation

Answer 14

Occurs when nationalists move from valuing their own nation to feeling an extreme sense of hostility toward people who do not: equation
Patriotism: being proud of country, identifying with your nation +
Xenophobia: intense or irrational dislike or fear of people in other countries

Question 15

how did ultranationalism rise in germany

Answer 15

• fed on germans anger of the weimar rebuplic and its failures with signing of treaty
• developed through economic depression and social unrest
• uses propaganda to promote anti-semitism throughout Europe
  -strong leader who would represent their inretsts

Question 16

breif summary of hitlers rise to power

Answer 16

• jailed for 9 months after Coup D’ettat
• after running for election gained some seats although hitler did not win
• nazi party refused to work with other parties
• hitler convinced president to appoint hitler as chancellor (democratic constitution was still in place)
• used existing laws to destroy German democracy
• president did so hitler appointed himself as Furher of Germany (leader)

Question 17

what is fascim

Answer 17

racial authorian nationalism and is charecterized by a dictator that suppresses opposition and control inducrty and commerce

Question 18

ultranationalism in italy

Answer 18

political instability depp economic disparites ( one side rich one side poor), inflation, unemployment and poverty
- citizens felt a sense of beytral by the liberal gov for not gaining any territory after WW1

Question 19

who was mussolini

Answer 19

politcal party that capitalized on violence
- focusing on italys instability and dissahfication, media skills, charmisa and leadership
- promised to promote fascim
- violent, rhetoric and manipulator