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