Test Long Answer Flashcards
Where did Europe extend its power after 1870? Why did their attitude change toward imperialism?
They extended to Africa
Attitude changed because they realized you can’t roll into a country and exploit the people who lived there causing war
How did the Bolshevik Revolution pose a challenge to the rest of Europe? Why did Lenin institute the New Economic Policy? Was it successful? Could the Russian revolution succeeded without Lenin?
Europe looked at it in horror as the established order was swept away in Russia and taken over by workers. Workers in Germany and other European countries followed Russia’s footsteps.
The new economic policy was meant to be a temporary kickstart to the economy after ww1. Farmers could sell their own goods and private ownership was allowed. It was successful.
Why were Britain and France ‘joyless victors’ after world war 1? What weakness did each have?
Because Britain were troubled democracies after the war and neither of them shifted to authoritarian. Mad the destruction in their countries was devastating. They both experienced economic hardships and many people were unemployed Cause of it
How necessary is terror and intimidation in the consolidation of an authoritarian regime? How did hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin use terror to achieve their goals? What were the particular characteristics of Nazi racial party?
It is necessary if you don’t want retaliation from the people. Hitler used public executions and propaganda to achieve his goals. Mussolini used the black shirts to keep people in line by bullying. Stalin killed people who didn’t agree with his ideas or went against them. They asserted racial superiority in the aryan race and said it was scientifically legitimate
Why did Japan attack the United States and Pearl Harbor? What was the significance of the American intervention in the war? Why did the US drop atomic bombs on Japan?
Japan bombed them because Roosevelt cut off shipment of fuel, scrap iron, and steel with Japan. The American intervention ended the war. The US dropped the bomb because they knew it would end the war and give Japan payback and Japan’s army was still a threat and strong
What was hitlers final solution to the Jewish problem? Some historians call the twentieth century as a period of great destruction as well as of great progress. Was the twentieth century truly a ‘century of holocaust’?
His final solution was to exterminate the Jewish population. It was a century of holocaust from the bloodbath that was formed but it has effected how we our governed today and out of that we have learned something
How did the United States and the Soviet Union Coke to dominate Europe after 1945? Why was 1962 a particularly crucial year?
The states were the most economically developed country and leaders in military power and Russia was also militarily and economically strong. Both sides kept competing on who could make the bigger bomb. It was crucial because the soviets and states could have caused a nuclear war if one person fired a rocket there was lots of disputes. Vietnam war took place and Berlin Wall
Two major causes leading to war in Vietnam were imperialism and the spread of communism. Which cause do you think was more important to France? And to the US?
France cared about imperialism because they didn’t want to lose their land in Vietnam and states cared about imperialism because their policy of containment
