History Test
Kristallnacht
"Night of Broken Glass"
True
(T or F) While the dates of the Cold War are usually given between 1945 and 1990, a number of historians will tell you that it actually started with Stalin's distrust of the U.S. and Britain while allies in World War II
The extermination of Jews
100 What was meant by Hitler's "Final Solution"?
Two thirds
About what portion of World War II's deaths do we estimate were civilians?
The desire of the Allied powers to punish Germany after World War I
According to Heimler in this video, what is the first cause of World War II?
Rome-Berlin Axis
Alliance between Italy and Germany
75,00
Barnard's procedure has saved over ___________ lives
fire bombing
Bombs dropped on Germany and Japan with intentions to spread fires and take down cities
Nitrogen Fertalizer
But Garst isn't finished. He sells another revolutionary product taken from nature's chemistry set: _________________ _______________
70
By 1965, nine out of ten American families owned a TV, and over _______ percent of the adult population watched the TV news every evening
World War II
Firebombs were used to devastating effect for the first time in what war?
engineering
For thousands of years, the key to mankinds' amibition has been ________________
share
Garst gives farmers the seed for free in return for a _______ of their profits
time
General Hoge's greatest obstacle is _______. He has just 8 months to complete the highway before the Alaska winter
Weimar Republic
German republic founded after the WWI and the downfall of the German Empire's monarchy.
openess
Glasnost or "_________" led to more information from the west and less censorship led to a flood of criticism as people realized how much poorer the second world was than the first.
Austria
Hitler's birthplace and his first target
Poland
Hitler's second target
It was a tremendous success and Germany conquered Britain
How did Germany's attempted air bombing campaign in Britain go?
They were elected by the people
How did Hitler and the Nazis originally come to power in Germany?
They saw it as too weak to meet their needs
How did many of the German people regard the democratic Weimar government set up after World War I?
Very well - they conquered most surrounding territory due to Blitzkrieg tactics
How did the beginning of World War II go for Nazi Germany?
13 Billion
How much money did Americans spend on the Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe after World War II?
Alaska
In 1942, over 11,000 American soldiers blaze an important trail: the ALCAN Highway to link __________ to west coast Canada and the rest of the United States
vote
In Selma, Alabama in 1965 six hundred African Americans demand change. They were marching for the right to _________
Poland
In what place did the Solidarity Movement take place?
Hungary and Czechoslovakia
In what two countries did the Soviet Union crush uprising (rebellions) in Europe?
footage
Journalist Laurens Pierce rushes film to New York. Fifteen minutes of raw ___________ interrupts ABC's Sunday Night Movie. It is the birth breaking TV news.
mad
Mutually Assured Destruction
communication
New technologies will harness the power of mass ____________________
third
Nuclear power is now the ________ largest generator of electricity
skill
One thing that defines humanity is "_______"
Cuban Missle Crisis
Only once or twice did we get close to nuclear war with one time being the....
corn
Roswell Garst invests in hybrid _____- which is cross bread to resist drought and disease so it can still grow in the scorched Midwest
China
Start of fighting in the Pacific theater of World War II began when Japan invaded....
story
The _______ of mankind is only just beginning
August 14th 1945
V-J Day/ war ended
Collectivization of agriculture
What Soviet policies helped contribute to famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s?
The idea that if one country became communist then it's neighbor would turn communist, and then the next, and so on...
What best describes the domino effect?
The extremely cold Russian winter
What caused problems for the German invasion of Soviet Russia?
Yugoslavia
What country split apart into many different countries when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991?
Great Britain
What country was not part of the 2nd world?
Appeasement, make concessions to avoid a future conflict
What did British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain think was the best way to deal with Hitler?
He committed suicide
What did HItler do on April 30, 1945?
Continued to invade neighboring countries in pursuit of lebenstraum ("living space")
What did Hitler continue to do after the Munich Agreement?
He built up the German military
What did Hitler do early on in defiance of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
Japan refused to employ women to help the war effort
What did Japan think of America's mobilization of women in the workforce during the war?
They claimed they were working with the enemy Russians
What did Ottomans give as justification for killing Armenians in the Armenian genocide?
The US dropped an atomic bomb
What did US President Harry Truman order be done to the city of Hiroshima, Japan?
That it was unsustainable and would lead to another war
What did many people at the time, as well as modern historians, think about the Treaty of Versailles as a peace agreement to end World War I?
The United States entering World War II
What did the Japanese attack of the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, lead to?
It ruined the economy
What did the reparations Germany was forced to pay by the Treaty of Versailles do to the German economy?
Influenza
What disease spread when many World War I soldiers returned home?
Stopping the spread of Communism where ever it was trying to spread
What does the policy of "containment" mean?
Hitler's invasion of Poland
What event led directly to the start of World War II in Europe?
The death of the Hutu President of Rwanda in a plane crash
What event triggered the Hutu policy of genocide against the Tutsis in Rwanda?
Muslims
What group did Yugoslav nationalist Slobodan Milosevic try to ethnically cleanse from Bosnia in the 1990s?
Tutsi
What group did the Belgian colonizers favor and give more power to in Rwanda?
The Allies began to liberate France from Nazi control
What happened on D-Day (June 6, 1944), the Allied invasion of Normandy, France?
Widespread anti-Semitic riots began throughout Germany, including violence against Jews
What happened on Kristallnacht, or the Night of Broken Glass?
It targets people from a specific group
What makes genocide different from other killings in war or conflict?
Many territories in Southeast Asia were colonies of Western nations
What problem did Japan run into as it started to invade Southeast Asia?
Germany, Italy, Japan
What three countries were in the Axis Powers, who would be the aggressors in World War II?
Jews
What was the largest group of people killed in the Holocaust?
Laws that openly discriminated against Germany's Jewish population
What were the Nuremberg Laws, passed by Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany?
60,000
When the atomic bomb is detonated over Hiroshima, the bombs kills over ________ people instantly
US, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
Which countries occupied Germany after WWII?
The USA and USSR
Who was the cold war a conflict between?
Japan's ally Germany signed a Non-Aggression Pact with Soviet Russia
Why did Japan initially avoid invading Soviet Russia at the start of World War II?
The Soviets influenced nations near them, which Churchill and other western democracies saw as a threat to democracy throughout the world
Why did Winston Churchill say that an "iron curtain" had descended across Europe after World War II?
permafrost
With a third of the highway unfinished, disaster strikes. ___________ is a layer of frozen ground up to 2,000 ft deep
voting rights
Within 15 days President Lyndon Johnson proposes the __________ __________ Act, outlawing voter discrimination
road map
history is the ________ ______ and without it there is no way to navigate the future
Heart Transplant
in 1967, patient Louis Washkansky will die without Christian Barnard's groundbreaking surgery: the world's first ___________ ___________________
5
in just four generations, our planet's population has grown over ______ billion
war guilt clause
in treaty of Versailles; declared germany and austria responsible for WWI; ordered Germany to pay reparation to Allied powers
Blitzkrieg
lightning war
Lebensraum
living space
repression
media for masses means _________ won't go unseen
The ALCAN Highway
part of a 16,000 mile road - the world's largest drivable route - running the length of the Americas
Rise of the Nazi Party
party that was led by Hitler that gained fame through him.
1500
the challenge ahead: _________ miles of forest and tundra, 200 rivers, and the highest mountains in North America
genocide
the intentional slaughter of a large group of people who belong to a certain ethnicity or nationality
life support
the key to operation is a new technology: the __________ ________________ machine
Anti-Comintern Pact
treaty between Germany and Japan