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Interwar, World War II, and
The Cold War
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Poland
the Rhineland
the Sudetenland
Austria
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Cubism
Surrealism
Romanticism
Dadaism
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Volksgemeinschaft
Einsatzgruppen
Unmenschlich
Anschluss
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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“New Economic Program”
“Great Leap Forward”
“Collectivization”
“Five-Year Plan”
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Postdam Conference
Bretton-Woods Conference
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Poland
the Rhineland
the Sudetenland
Austria
• Austria was NOT “taken” by the Germans.
The “Anschluss” united them, but there
was no “invasion”
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Cubism
Surrealism
Romanticism
Dadaism
• Romanticism was NOT a 20th Century art
movement. The rest were.
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Volksgemeinschaft
Einsatzgruppen
Unmenschlich
Anschluss
• “Anschluss” was the union of Germany
and Austria. The others were “Nazi terms”
of state and racial order.
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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“New Economic Program”
“Great Leap Forward”
“Collectivization”
“Five-Year Plan”
• The “Great Leap Forward” was Chinese
Communist leader Mao Ze Dong’s term.
The others were associated with economic
reform in Russia.
ONE of these things is
NOT like the others…
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Tehran Conference
Yalta Conference
Postdam Conference
Bretton-Woods Conference
• The Bretton-Woods Conference was a
postwar economic conference. The others
were political conferences.
1. Which of the following countries
steadfastly refused to grant women to
vote, even though several other
European nations granted women’s
suffrage between 1914 and 1925?
a.
b.
c.
d.
France
Great Britain
Germany
Finland
2. Which of the following was argued by Freud in
his Interpretation of Dreams?
a. There is a repressed part of the human psyche
where all sorts of desires are more or less hidden
b. There is a personality type-homosexual- that can be
identified by traits such as effeminate behavior in
males
c. Overstimulation causes both individual and national
deterioration
d. There is a rational side of human existence and a
“Dionysian” side that is expressed by primal urges
3. In Russia, what resulted from the
establishment of the Duma?
a. Soviets rose to power and eventually
overthrew the tsar
b. Little changed because the tsar could
dismiss the Duma and force new elections.
c. The Duma and the tsar worked closely
together to implement reform in Russia.
d. Aristocrats returned to power because they
controlled the most important seats.
4. The civil war in Russia between 1918
and 1922 brought with of the following to
power?
a.
b.
c.
d.
V.I. Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Grigori Raspitin
5. Who made Benito Mussolini prime
minister in 1922?
a.
b.
c.
d.
V.I. Lenin
Adolf Hitler
King Victor Emmanuel III
Nicholas II
6. What were the effects of the United States
stock market crash in 1929?
a. There were no effects outside the United States,
which recovered within a year.
b. Germany and Great Britain were able to regain their
position at the forefront of worldwide industry.
c. Economic disaster circle the globe making
militarism and authoritarianism seem appealing to
many.
d. The American Socialism Movement was able to
gain powers briefly.
7. Which of the following was a prominent
cause of the stock market crash in 1929?
a.
b.
c.
d.
An accounting error
A drop in purchases of new technologies
Reckless investment using borrowed money
The Federal Reserve Bank loosening the
availability of credit
8. Which of the following was not a factor in
Hitler’s rise to power in 1933?
a. His effective use of media to criticize the
Weimar government
b. Concerns among conservative elites of the
growing Communist influence in Germany
c. The view among several political elites that
Hitler could be easily manipulated
d. The majority of the Nazi Party membership
being over age forty
9. Which of the following did not participate
in the Spanish Civil War(1936-1939)
a.
b.
c.
d.
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Russia
10. Which country invaded Poland with
Germany in 1939?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Spain
11. Which of the following was a consequence of
the German invasion of Russia in 1941?
a. The United States entered the war.
b. Russian army was severely weakened and unable
to fight for much of the remainder of the war
c. Harsh winter prevented a quick victory and
hampered the overall war effort for Germany
d. Stalin discredited for having made an alliance with
Germany and sent into exile
12. Which of the following did not occur after
World War II ended?
a. Refuges quickly found housing vacated by
those killed during the war
b. Colonized peoples no longer exhibited
deference to their European dominators
c. Western values changed drastically.
d. New competition for territory arose among
the Allied powers.
13. All of the following were factors in the origin of
the Cold War except
a. Stalin’s belief that Roosevelt and Churchill were
deliberately allowing the USSR to bear the brunt of
casualties in World War II.
b. hostility towards the Soviets that originated as far
back as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
c. early efforts to exclude the Soviet Union from the
United Nations.
d. Stalin’s perceived need for a buffer zone to protect
the Soviet Union from western menace.
14. The division of which of the following
established the border between Eastern
and Western Superpowers?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Poland
Berlin
15. After WWII, governments in both East
and West
a. increased the role of the free market in
spurring economic growth
b. Developed more comprehensive welfare
states
c. Reduced their bureaucratic roles in shaping
society and the economy
d. Took less active roles in the lives of their
citizens
1. Which of the following countries
steadfastly refused to grant women to
vote, even though several other
European nations granted women’s
suffrage between 1914 and 1925?
a.
b.
c.
d.
France
Great Britain
Germany
Finland
2. Which of the following was argued by Freud in
his Interpretation of Dreams?
a. There is a repressed part of the human psyche
where all sorts of desires are more or less hidden
b. There is a personality type-homosexual- that can be
identified by traits such as effeminate behavior in
males
c. Overstimulation causes both individual and national
deterioration
d. There is a rational side of human existence and a
“Dionysian” side that is expressed by primal urges
3. In Russia, what resulted from the
establishment of the Duma?
a. Soviets rose to power and eventually
overthrew the tsar
b. Little changed because the tsar could
dismiss the Duma and force new elections.
c. The Duma and the tsar worked closely
together to implement reform in Russia.
d. Aristocrats returned to power because they
controlled the most important seats.
4. The civil war in Russia between 1918
and 1922 brought with of the following to
power?
a.
b.
c.
d.
V.I. Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Leon Trotsky
Grigori Raspitin
5. Who made Benito Mussolini prime
minister in 1922?
a.
b.
c.
d.
V.I. Lenin
Adolf Hitler
King Victor Emmanuel III
Nicholas II
6. What were the effects of the United States
stock market crash in 1929?
a. There were no effects outside the United States,
which recovered within a year.
b. Germany and Great Britain were able to regain their
position at the forefront of worldwide industry.
c. Economic disaster circle the globe making
militarism and authoritarianism seem appealing to
many.
d. The American Socialism Movement was able to
gain powers briefly.
7. Which of the following was a prominent
cause of the stock market crash in 1929?
a.
b.
c.
d.
An accounting error
A drop in purchases of new technologies
Reckless investment using borrowed money
The Federal Reserve Bank loosening the
availability of credit
8. Which of the following was not a factor in
Hitler’s rise to power in 1933?
a. His effective use of media to criticize the
Weimar government
b. Concerns among conservative elites of the
growing Communist influence in Germany
c. The view among several political elites that
Hitler could be easily manipulated
d. The majority of the Nazi Party membership
being over age forty
9. Which of the following did not participate
in the Spanish Civil War(1936-1939)
a.
b.
c.
d.
Great Britain
Germany
Italy
Russia
10. Which country invaded Poland with
Germany in 1939?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Italy
Czechoslovakia
Russia
Spain
11. Which of the following was a consequence of
the German invasion of Russia in 1941?
a. The United States entered the war.
b. Russian army was severely weakened and unable
to fight for much of the remainder of the war
c. Harsh winter prevented a quick victory and
hampered the overall war effort for Germany
d. Stalin discredited for having made an alliance with
Germany and sent into exile
12. Which of the following did not occur after
World War II ended?
a. Refuges quickly found housing vacated by
those killed during the war
b. Colonized peoples no longer exhibited
deference to their European dominators
c. Western values changed drastically.
d. New competition for territory arose among
the Allied powers.
13. All of the following were factors in the origin of
the Cold War except
a. Stalin’s belief that Roosevelt and Churchill were
deliberately allowing the USSR to bear the brunt of
casualties in World War II.
b. hostility towards the Soviets that originated as far
back as the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
c. early efforts to exclude the Soviet Union from the
United Nations.
d. Stalin’s perceived need for a buffer zone to protect
the Soviet Union from western menace.
14. The division of which of the following
established the border between Eastern
and Western Superpowers?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Poland
Berlin
15. After WWII, governments in both East
and West
a. increased the role of the free market in
spurring economic growth
b. Developed more comprehensive welfare
states
c. Reduced their bureaucratic roles in shaping
society and the economy
d. Took less active roles in the lives of their
citizens
( _____, _____, _____ )
Conclusion Statements
_____ wanted ____, and so he ____,
somebody
action
something
but ____, so _____.
some…
…one
this
happened
…thing
…body
Topics:
1. Nazi Germany
4. Harry Truman
2. The Surrealists
5. John Maynard Keynes
3. Joseph Stalin
“Brain Dump”
Write
EVERYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND
when you see the following pictures
Germany invades Denmark and Norway
April 1940
Construction of the Berlin Wall, August 1961