history final (KD)
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- five promises that Hitler makes when economy crumbles in 1929 (QUESTION FOUR)
- 1. Overthrow Treaty of Versaille 2. Get rid of Weimar Republic/Democracy 3. Get rid of Jews 4. Crush communist revolution 5. Restore Germany to rightful place as world power
- what are the flaws in the Bismarckian alliance system?
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secret contradictory clauses
fragility
does nothing about declining ottoman empire (tensions heat b/t austria and russia) - What is the german war plan in world war one?
- Send an army towards France as Russia mobilizes. Knock out France, avoid two front war. Send troops through Belgium. Then deal with Russia
- What is the Nazi ideology that makes the regime so aggressive?
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-dominant power
-overturn T of V
-change international status quo
-make racial empire based on German superiority - What is the nature of the Nazi regime that makes it so aggressive?
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-myth-"one people, one state, one leader", illusion that there are no lines drawn. Keeps population mobilized against a common enemy-feel unified and dont have time for reflection
maintains aggression abroad - How does the economics of rearmament contribute to nazi aggression?
- industries pull germany out of depression, Hitler can focus on war materials and raw materials, people want to focus on consumer goods, Hitler doesnt want to seem like a bad guy but inflation is rising...so he aggresively pursues war to import raw materials and get cheap labor
- how to the western democracies try to appease Hitler/what does hitler get away with? (question 1)
- Remilitarizes rhineland, engages in spanish civil war, occupies and annexes Austria, hand over Sudetenland to Nazis in Munich, doesn't stop Hitler from occupying Czech
- What is the first flaw with the German Weimar Republic?
- -product of losing war (associate the republic and democracy with humiliation and defeat)
- what is the second flaw with the German Weimar Republic? (question 4)
- This democratic government is responsible for giving war reparations and signing the treaty of versailles. This is another negative associatio0n
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What is the third flaw of the German Weimar Republic
question 4 - Democracy under the Weimar republic is a product of fear-the German people fear a communist nation
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WHat is the fourth flaw of the Weimar Republic
question 4 - is it a democratic system that is essentially pasted onto the body of an anti-democratic state. THe old institutions dont believe in democracy
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What are the distinguishing features of the NEP
Question 3 - Economic recovery-the government controls the commanding heights (foreign trade, credit...), market is free, private market capitalism...not much economic change
- What is the strategy of the right in achieving a communist society?
- 1. gradual, slow industrialization 2. emphasis on consumer goods 3. voluntary cooperation of the peasants
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What is the strategy of the left in creating a communist state?
question 3 - 1. emphasis on rapid, forced instrialization 2. focus on heavy producer goods (steel, petroleum) 3. forced extractions
- What are the principle characteristics of prosperity?
- Peace, Opportunities, almost global scale for business, people can work less and still make more money, general standard of living greatly improves
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What are the characteristics of the economic miracle?
question five - 1. output of manufactured goods increaes 400 percent 2. world trade and manufacturing increases 3. international trade increases 4. agricultural products rise steeply 5. per capita income increases 250 percent
- What are the factors that allow the NWO to continue for 25 years?
- production and technological revolution, disparity between rich and poor shrinks, cold war, concentration of wealth in countries
- what is the price scissor crisis that faces the soviet union?
- agricultural production prices are going down, but prices of manufacturing are going up. Peasants are the ones who are hurt badly