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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