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How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870 ? |
Germany's arrival disrupted the established order |
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What impact did World War 1 have on Europe' colonial empires |
The war drew in laborers and soliders from the colonies |
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What was a factor in causing the Great Depression |
Speculation on the stock market |
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What strained Japan's relations with Western powers in the early 1940's |
Japanese military operations in Indochina, Malaya, and Burma |
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What describes popular attitudes in Europe toward the propect of war in the summer of 1914 |
Widespread enthusiasm |
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What country switched sides afrer World War I began |
Italy |
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What country was least affected by the Great Depression |
The Soviet Union |
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What was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism |
A single party dictatorship |
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What was reason for the popularity of the Nazi Party once it seized power in the 1930s |
Its success in bringing Germany out of the Great Depression |
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What did Japan, Italy, and Germany share in the 1930s |
Aggressive ambition for conquest and empire building |
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What drew Japan, Germany, and Italy into a political alliance by 1936-37 |
Hostility towards the Soviet Union |
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What effect did World war II have on Communism |
It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power |
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In contrast to what transpired during World War I, Germany during World War II was able to |
Conquer France quickly |
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What effect did the U.S. Marshall plan have on European economies |
It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe |
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What was a more prominent feature of World War II than World War I |
The Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente |
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What was a term of the Treaty of Versailles |
Germany was to accept sole responsibility for causing World War I |
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The new states that had been carved out of which empire was governed as mandates of the League of Nations after World War I |
The Ottoman Empire |
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What happened to German sphere of influence in China after World War I ended |
Japan claimed it |
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What describes the position of the United States after World War I |
It became Europe's main creditor |
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What characterized European and American culture in the 1920s |
A new consumerism |
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What represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression |
Import substitution industrialization |
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The sets of reforms packaged as the New Deal was based on the belief that |
Government actions and spending programs could correct the market |
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What appealed to facists |
Nationalism |
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Japanese politics and society during the 1920s suggested that Japan favored |
Democratic politics and Western culture |
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What resulted from Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor |
The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war |
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What happened to Europe's empires in Asia and Africa after the end of World War II |
European empires collapsed as colonies achieved independence |
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What committed the United States to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after World War II |
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
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How did the American occupation of Japan after World War II affect the Japanese economy |
It promoted rapid economic growth and generated economic prosperity |
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What contributed to Western European recovery after the devastation of World War II |
The ability of Western European countries to integrate their economies |
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What reflects a Hilter's view of the Aryan as expressed in Mein Kampf |
"He is Prometheus of mankind..." |
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What feature of war is depicted in John Nash's painting |
Trench Warfare |
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What does Otto Dix's painting called Prague Street suggest about how Germany treated its veterans |
Veterans were left to fend for themselves |
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What best describes the lithograph above German artist George Grosz |
A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment |
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What countries experienced the most rapid economic growth during the Second World war |
The United States |
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What arose out of dissatisfaction with the treaties ending the first World war |
The Indian National Congress |
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What statements best represents a nationalistic interpretation of the collapse of the Ottoman and Russian empires during amd immediately after the first World war |
The growing demands of various ethnic groups within these multiethnic empires were the primary reasons for the collapse |
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The photograph above German East African troops best illustartes what historical processes during First World War |
The increasing inclusion of non-Europeans in European conflicts |
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A historian would find the 1932 Soviet poster most useful in studying what |
The official propaganda of gender equality in the Soviet Union |
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What factirs contributed most to women gaining the right to vote in industrialized countries between 1914 and 1950 |
In the first and second World wars, women made highly visible contributions tobwar effort |
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A historian researching the motives of the perpetrators of the Holocaust would find what sources most useful |
Letters and publications written by Nazi leaders before Second World War |