Unit 4 Test Review
What is appeasement and how does it relate to WWII?
-Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict -Munich Conference and Hitler
What was happening in the 1920s/1930s that led to world unrest?
-Aftermath of world war 1 -Strikes -League of Nation failures -Economic crisis
What event lead to the deaths of over 70,000 people in 1945? What caused the deaths?
-Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -Bombs, radiation poisoning, burns -70,000 died immediately and more to come
How did Hitler stab Stalin in the back?
-Broke the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression pact. -Invaded Poland when Hitler said he wouldn't -Invaded Soviet Union
Why was Germany so upset over the Treaty of Versailles?
-Hitler believed Weimar Republic 'stabbed the army in the back' -Germany lost land -Germany had to disband their military -Germany had to pay war reparations
What were the causes of World War II?
-Impact of Treaty Versailles -Rise of military -Failure of League of Nations -Failure of appeasement -World economic failure/crisis
Why did Japan invade Manchuria?
-To gain its rubber and coal deposits -They wanted natural resources -China was weak from Civil War and Japan took advantage of that
How did the Holocaust violate human rights?
-creation of the Nuremberg Laws and taking away rights -Blood Laws and who people could marry -Not letting Jews attend schools -Putting Jewish people in ghettos, concentration camps, and killing them -Mass murder; genocide
After VE [Victory in Europe] Day the ground people wanted to see the damage done by "us" bombers, so our crew was one assigned to fly low altitude tours over Germany with our waist area full of ground crew people. Unless one could see with his own eyes, he could not imagine how devastated Germany was. Not a bridge standing anywhere, not a railroad, not a highway, not a factory. Frankfurt, for instance, was just a pile of rubble. I was in Frankfurt in 1977. It was easy to distinguish new construction. Looking down the street I could see that about every third building was old, indicating that two-thirds had been completely bombed out. . . . —Lt. Robert Pepper, U.S. Army Air Force pilot
The scene described in this passage is most closely associated with the 1. Policy of nonalignment 2. Doctrine of containment 3. impact of modern war technology 4. Effects of industrialization on the environment
Article 1 1. From January 1, 1939, the running of retail shops, mail order houses, and the practice of independent trades are forbidden to Jews. 2. Moreover, Jews are forbidden from the same date to offer goods or services in markets of all kinds, fairs or exhibitions or to advertise them or accept orders for them. 3. Jewish shops which operate in violation of this order will be closed by police. . . .
Which document, written after World War II, specifically condemned these types of actions? 1. Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech 2. universal declaration of human rights 3. European Economic Community Charter 4. Warsaw Pact
