Chapter 28 World Civ 2 pavese

Hitler implemented his planned "Endlösung" ("Final Solution") of European Jews beginning in January ________.

1942

The planned massacre of _______ was the one large-scale atrocity of World War I.

Armenians

The German army in Poland had pioneered a new kind of warfare referred to as lightning war

Blitzkrieg

As a result of the Versailles Peace Treaty which brought World War I to an end, a new supra-national _________was entrusted with the maintenance of peace.

League of Nations

Ending in February 1943, the Battle of Stalingrad:

Marked the turning point in the European war, with a Soviet victory.

Estimates of those slaughtered in the brutal "Rape of _______" of 1937-1938 range between 200,000 and 300,000 people

Nanjing

In 1920, the _________gave American women the right to vote.

Nineteenth Amendment

In 1939, the German army pioneered a new kind of warfare, a "Blitzkrieg" or "lightning war", in _______.

Poland

In March 1930, Mohandas Gandhi protested a British tax on Indian ______ by embarking on a famous 24-day march.

Salt

In his struggle for Indian independence, Mohandas Gandhi pursued a strategy of "satyagraha" or "________".

Soul-force

One of the most significant reasons for the continued stagnation of the British economy after World War I was:

That nearly half of its budget in the interwar period went to paying off debt from the war.

After World War I, the most strategically important focus of British and French colonialism was _________.

The Middle East

The Schlieffen Plan, implemented by the Germans at beginning of World War I, came close to succeeding, but it ultimately failed, for all of the following reasons except:

The Netherlands intervened on behalf of its neighbor, Belgium, threatening to invade Germany.

The League of Nations, created in the aftermath of the "Great War", included all of the following countries as member states except:

The United States

From the very first, World War I was what is known as a _________, a conflict in which the belligerent parties engage in the complete mobilization of available resources in order to secure a military victory.

Total war