Unit Test Answers

To spur US recovery after the Great Depression, President Roosevelt

During the early 1900s, the term “soviet” was initially the name for

When Germany experienced inflation, prices for goods

In the years prior to World War I, the government of Russia was

In a speech to the British people near the beginning of World War II, Churchill said the following:Let us brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."—Winston Churchill

Why is the name “totalitarianism” appropriate for that form of government?

In the report below, a Nazi officer describes the evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto in 1943."The execution of this transfer order [to move all the Jews in the ghetto to concentration camps] proved to be very difficult, since the managers as well as the Jews resisted in every possible way . . . The conditions discovered there are indescribable. I cannot imagine a greater chaos than in the Ghetto of Warsaw.”—SS General Jürgen Stroop, 1943

Why was the D-Day invasion crucial for the Allies’ Europe First strategy?

The passage below contains testimony from the commander of Auschwitz, given at a war crimes trial in 1946.DR. KAUFMANN: Is it furthermore true that Eichmann stated to you that in Auschwitz a total sum of more than 2 million Jews had been destroyed?HÖSS: Yes.DR. KAUFMANN: Did you yourself ever feel pity with the victims, thinking of your own family and children?HÖSS: Yes.DR. KAUFMANN: How was it possible for you to carry out these actions in spite of this?HÖSS: In view of all these doubts which I had, the only one and decisive argument was the strict order and the reason given for it by the Reichsführer Himmler.

Which explains why freeing Italy and North Africa was part of the Allied strategy for winning the war?

What is a coalition?

What is the most likely reason that nations raised tariffs on imports during the Great Depression?

The graph shows troop casualties in major Pacific battles.

Why was Benito Mussolini able to seize control in Italy?

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