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what does 'mein kampf' translate to?
my struggle
what type of gov't was nazism a form on?
fascism
where did the allied invasion d-day occur?
france
what is the art movement called that uses the unconscious part of mind?
surrealism
by 1935, which eastern european country was still a democracy?
czechoslovakia
what leaders supported fascism?
hitler, stalin, mussolini, lenin, peron
who developed theories about the unconscious part of mind?
einstein
what musical style captured a sense of the new freedom of the postwar years?
jazz
what country suffered during the depression from war debts?
germany
who completed the first trans-atlantic flight?
charles lindbergh
how did hitler plan on achieving lebensraum?
by conquering eastern europe and russia
why did the jap emporer reduce power after the war?
allied powers insisted on it
list the weaknesses of the weimar republic
lacked a strong democratic tradition,millions of germans has several major political parties and minor ones, millions of germans blamed the weimar republic not the leaders for their country's defeat
what country was ruled by a dictatorship in 1920?
russia
what group did franco lead in the spanish civil war?
the nationalists
who wrote the great gatsby?
f. scott fitzgerald
what battle was the final german offensive?
battle of the bulge
the germa blitzkrieg depended on what advantage?
fast moving airplanes and tanks
what country signed a non-aggression pact with the soviet union in 1939?
germany
how did the new deal attempt to stimulate the economy?
large public works projects helped provide jobs to unemployed, new gov't agencies gave financial help to buisenesses grams, large amounts of money were spent on welfare and relief programs
why were jap americans interned?
americans were afraid they could be spies or could attack them easily
who was the general who led the troops to victory in the battle of el alamein
montegomery
what topics were addressed by the nuremberg trials?
nazi war criminals were on trial. they were accused of ''crimes against humanity''. 11 million people died.
what term describes the relationship between the speed of light, and the measurements of time and space?
relative motion
what literary technique did james joyce use to capture his characters thoughts and feelings?
stream of consionsness/normal sentence structure and vocab
which nations lost the most lives during the war?
the soviet union
what characteristics did fascism and communism share?
ruled by dictators who allowed only their political party, denied individual rightsm the state was supreme, and neither practiced any kind of democracy
what was the main target of kamikazes?
sunk allied ships by crashing their planes into them
what crucial lesson was learned at the battle of britian?
hitler's attacks could be blocked
what philosophy rejects the idea of universal values?
existentialism
what two cities were atomic bombs dropped on?
iwo jima and hiroshima
what prompted great britian and france to declare war on germany?
after signing the non-aggression pact, hitler made plans to conquer poland. german troops rumbled across the polish border. at the same time, german aircraft and artillery began bombing poland's capital, warsaw
why was the battle of midway important?
they turned the tide of war in the pacific
what countries belonged to the axis powers?
germany, italy, japan
what country was threatened by germany, and caused the munich conference to be called?
italy
who urged a return to heroic values of pride, assertiveness, and strength?
friedrich nietzsche
what event led to the statement "a date which will live in infamy?''
FDR

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