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World History
WW2 Study Guide
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9th Grade
05/14/2007

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The Treaty of Locarno guaranteed
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Germanys new western borders with France and Belgium.
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What was the Kristallnacht?
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It was a destructive Nazi rampage aainst the Jews.
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Surrealist ___ painted everday objects but seperated them from their normal contexts.
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Salvador Dali
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Who was the Propaganda Minister for Germany?
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Joseph Goebbels
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To deal with runaway German inflation, an international commision created the Dawes plan, which..
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reduced Germanys reperations debt.
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An __ is a period of low economic activity and rising unemployment.
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economic depression
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Fascism glorifies the state above the individual by emphasizing the need for
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a strong central government led by dictator rule.
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What where the Nuremberg laws?
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They excluded Jews from German citizenship and forbade marriages between Germans and Jews.
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James Joyces novel Ulysses is the most famous example of
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the "stream of consciousness" technique.
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The Triumph of the Will was
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a Nazi documentary film that forcefully conveyed the power of National Socialism.
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Mohandas Ghandi protested British Laws by
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using methods of civil disobedience, that is, refusing to obey laws considered to be unjust.
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The Salt March was
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Mohandas Ghandis march to the sea to protest new British Taxes and restricitons on Salt.
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Hitler demanded, and was given, what are in northwestern Czechoslovakia?
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Sudetenland
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Hitlers blitzkreig, or lightening war was
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a form of attack that used tank divisions supported by air attacks.
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On December 7, 1941 the Japanese
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launched a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor
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What was the turning point of the war in the Pacific?
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The battle of Iwo Jima
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____ administered the Nazis final solution.
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Reinhard Heydrich.
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When the einstazgruppen proved to be to slow for the nazis, they
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built special extermination camps in Poland.
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The __ was the period of political tension following WW2.
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Cold war
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At the Yalta conference, the Allies agreed to
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the establishment of a United Nations organization after the war.
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The slaughter of European civilians, particularly European Jews, by Nazis became know was what?
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the Holocaust.
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