Unit Three Test

Question 1

What is the Weimar Republic?

Answer 1

Weimar Republic is going to be the successor of the Hogan, his own dynasty. The monarchy

Question 2

What problems did the Weimar Republic have and why?

Answer 2

They inherited all the problems, debts, massive unemployment. This new government had to contend with hyperinflation.

Question 3

What is the Red Scare?

Answer 3

The Red Scares are these post war fears of communism.

Question 4

What is Mass Culture?

Answer 4

Mass marketing. Aggressive marketing. Professional sports are a part of mass culture, everybody is experiencing these things.

Question 5

How does the Cultural Revolution of the 1920s affect women?

Answer 5

It gives birth to the modern woman.

Question 6

What are the causes of the Great Depression? Be able to explain at least one.

Answer 6

When you have a flat growth or negative growth rate after so many quarters it can cause a recession.

Question 7

What is Mein Kampf and be able to explain at least one aspect of it.

Answer 7

It was Hitler’s autobiography/manifesto, it contained is political philosophy and his plan for German conquest to save them from Jewish people who he blamed for everything.

Question 8

What are some of the effects on Jews from Hitler’s ascent to Chancellor in 1933?

Answer 8

If you are Jewish teacher or Jewish professor, you will be removed from your job. If you were a Jew that was a doctor or lawyer, those practices will be taken from you.

Question 9

What is Kristallnacht?

Answer 9

This is intentional destruction of property, intentional destruction of synagogues, homes, et cetera.

Question 10

What was the Final Solution?

Answer 10

The final solution is the Holocaust, the concentration camps, the death camps, the 6 million dead. That is the Holocaust

Question 11

What is the Munich Conference and what does Hitler take away from it?

Answer 11

A conference the Americans and British called to create a treaty with Hitler to avoid war but he used it as a stalling tactic.

Question 12

What is Appeasement?

Answer 12

To let someone, get away with bad behavior to avoid conflict.

Question 13

What happens at Dunkirk?

Answer 13

The British and the remnants of French troops are surrounded on a beach and were being bombed by the German Air Force. The British get every boat, every yacht, every dingy. If it’s got a motor with it and started ferrying these soldiers over to England.

Question 14

How was England saved during the Battle for Britain and what was a major ramification of the loss for the Nazis?

Answer 14

They were aided by a cloned Enigma machine. Cloned Enigma machine. The Enigma, this is the Enigma code is the secret code that the Germans used. They utilized Radar. But the British had invested in it, believed in the technology and between the, the radar and this Enigma machine, they will be able to combat. They stopped Hitler from advancing

Question 15

Why did the Nazis’ lose in Operation Barbarossa?

Answer 15

Russians had more troops than the Germans do. They also ran into some of same issues as Neapolitan with supply lines and winter. The troops did not have adequate clothing. The vehicles were not designed to operate in weather like this causing Hitler to take significant losses.

Question 16

What is Central Planning?

Answer 16

Stalin has used central planning. He created a series of five-year plans. In the first five years they produced steel, tanks, this many bullets, this many tons of coal. Hitler didn’t realize is that Stalin is sitting on a ton of weapons and a ton of troops

Question 17

What was the Nye Commission

Answer 17

They studied World War 1, why America had to get involved in World War One. They feel if we weren’t selling weapons the sinking of the Lusitania would have not been a big deal. They determine the Neutrality Acts were required.

Question 18

What were the Neutrality Acts and how did they hamper US foreign policy?

Answer 18

They were created by the Nye Commission it stated the United States will no longer sell weapons to countries at war or give loans to nations at war.

Question 19

What three strategies did FDR try to help the Allies in WWII?

Answer 19

1. Exchange bases for destroyers.
2. Develops the Lend-Lease act where he Lends/Leases hardware to the British.
3. Neutrality Patrols to defend our equipment, we will fire on site any German ship coming for our equipment to protect our investment.

Question 20

What did the Japanese want?

Answer 20

They aspired to create an Asian empire.

Question 21

What did the US expect at Pearl Harbor?

Answer 21

Most of the American sort of intelligence agencies had believed that there was going to be some form of sabotage

Question 22

What three “fortunate” things happen at Pearl Harbor that allow the US to remain in WWII?

Answer 22

1. The aircraft carriers had been sent out to sea the aircraft carriers.
2. The harbor was shallow, so a lot of ships were able to be reclaimed.
3. The Japanese did not send their third wave of planes

Question 23

What is D-Day?

Answer 23

The day the campaign begins. The Allied assault on June 6th, 1944. They will assault France’s Normandy coast.

Question 24

What is a Cold War?

Answer 24

The Cold War is this period after World War Two is completed. The US and Soviet Union are opposites we call a Cold War because it doesn’t go into a hot war. It is a war of spying, ideas, sabotage, and indirect conflict.

Question 25

How did the perspectives of Joseph Stalin and Harry Truman affect the flow of the Cold War?

Answer 25

Stalin wanted to spread communism to nearby countries to turn them communist. Truman He wants to replace balance of power with internationalism. Internationalism is where every country is more equal and if one country behaves badly, becomes an aggressor or in a belligerent, than the rest of the world is going to stand up to them collectively. It calls this internationalism. Truman wants self-determination for people.

Question 26

What is the Marshall Plan?

Answer 26

It provides a grant to be used for growing and repair nations. It is designed to rebuild infrastructure and manufacturing.

Question 27

Why did the Soviets balk at the money offered through the Marshall Plan?

Answer 27

1. The requirement for budgetary supervision.Now that we no longer needed them to fight Hitler we wanted receipts.
2. It was basically an American Gift card, they were required to use it to buy good from american manufacturers only.

Question 28

What is the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 28

The United States policy that it would support any country threatened by Soviet Influence.

Question 29

What is an Arms Race? What form does it take during the Cold War?

Answer 29

An arms race is when countries attempt to stockpile weaponry at a greater rate and with more speed than their opponents. The arms race between the US and The Soviet Union during the cold war was a matter of nuclear weapons and intelligence

Question 30

What is decolonization?

Answer 30

The process of giving countries back to their colonized people for them to control again.

Question 31

How does China fall to communism?

Answer 31

Mao and the communists chase Chaing Kai-Shek into Taiwan and take over the Mainland’s government.

Question 32

What happens in the Korean War?

Answer 32

The Soviet Union backs the communist North Korean forces and the US backs the South Korean forces. Once the US was able to push North Korea back they started to push back further into North Korea making them our forever enemy and making China mad.

Question 33

What is NASA?

Answer 33

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Nasa is going to be our organization that deals with building the rockets, putting together the satellites, making the plan solar, lunar exploration period of outer space.

Question 34

How does the US deal with the realities of the Sputnik launch?

Answer 34

This caused the Americans begin to perceive themselves as behind in the space race so they created NASA.

Question 35

What facilitates the Cuban Missile Crisis and how is it resolved?

Answer 35

Nikita Khrushchev, who was the leader of the Soviet Union, in 1962, he is going to order the installation of a series of nuclear missiles in Cuba. This led to Détente so we negotiated with the Soviets, cultural and scientific exchanges. Then there was the Arms Limitation Treaties.

Question 36

What is Detent?

Answer 36

Detente means the clenching of the fist, clenching of the fist, an aggressive stance towards each other has nearly killed us all.

Question 37

What steps are taken to reduce the likelihood of conflict between the Soviets and the US?

Answer 37

West Germany (Federal German Republic) is going to look like ultimately like America, capitalism will set route there. East Germany will not be the side controlled by the Soviets. That side will become known as the German Democratic Republic.

Question 38

What is Consumerism?

Answer 38

A societal obsession with the acquisition of goods.