Reference no: EM133405455
Questions:
1. What did countries re-establish between one another when the Depression began to set in that crippled their long-term ability to recover with trade?
2. What was the name for the type of free-market capitalism Smith advocates in his book, The Wealth of Nations?
3. When this system failed, which British economist suggested government deficit spending, and the creation of jobs through public works and public aid, could get the economy running again?
4. What is the name of this type of economics (not the one with his name!)?
5. Which European country embraced the new style of economics, and vastly increased gov. deficit spending and public works projects?
6. This is the term used to describe risky purchases in the hopes of reselling it at a higher price later?
7. What event caused U.S. banks to fail?
8. Provide an example of one such publics works project.
9. Failing to use this new economic strategy, what are three things French socialists won for French workers?
10. What was the name of this political party / movement?
11. Due to economic hardship, many new democracies succumbed to dictatorship in the 1930s. Provide three example countries.
12. What was the name of the socialist / communist political party in Spain that won the elections in 1936?
13. What was the name of the Spanish fascist who opposed this new, communist-style government?
14. Which side were the Republics-communist or fascists?
15. Who supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War?
16. Which side were the Nationalists-communist or fascists?
17. Who supported the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War?
18. Provide four ways either Italy or Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles or the League of Nations in the 1930s.
19. This was the name of the agreement between Nazi Germany and Britain and France in which they hoped to appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland area in Czechoslovakia.
20. What was the name of the agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union to invade and divide Poland?
21. Provide another country the USSR invaded in 1939, in addition to Poland.
22. Provide the two new battle techniques / strategies the Germans used to win decisive early victories in the first years of WWII.
23. Provide one reason Japan invaded Western holdings in the Pacific in late 1941.
24. What was the name of the alliance between Germany, Italy, and Japan?
25. This is the name for attempting to improve genetics through selective breeding.
26. Provide two groups of people Nazis used compulsory sterilization to 'purify' the German gene pool.
27. Provide two ways the Nazis attempted to encourage German population growth.
28. Provide two ways the Nazis attempted to discourage Jews from remaining in Germany.
29. At what conference in 1942 did Nazi officials decide to change their policy on 'racial purifying' from encouraging other races to leave to extermination?
30. What was the nickname / codename of this decision?
31. Provide an example death camp.
32. Provide two Anglo-American innovations that allowed them to hold off Axis Powers during their highly-successful first years.
33. Which Jewish-German scientist developed the theory of energy and matter being interchangeable?
34. Which German scientist developed modern quantum mechanics and the models / characteristics of the atom?
35. Which Italian scientist developed the first nuclear reactor, and helped the American atomic bomb project?
36. What was this project called?
37. What was the name / nickname for the advantage the U.S., Great Britain, Canada, and the USSR had over the Axis Powers that allowed them to win the war in the long run?
38. What were the names of the atomic bomb sites in Japan in 1945?
39. Provide three new techs or events that decimated military and civilian populations during WWII.
40. Provide three of the four countries that suffered the highest casualties of WWII.