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| What American event influenced the European economy to go into a depression? | US stockmarket crashes and dries up American loans to Europe |
| Who was the economist that encouraged govt intervention in the economy with deficit spending to fight the depression? | John Maynard Keynes |
| What country had the Popular Front which was a coalition govt of the left? | France |
| Name the 3 countries that had fascist regimes in the 1930's. | Italy, Germany, and Spain |
| What political ideology is antidemocratic, antiMarxist and pro capitalism? | fascism |
| When did Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany? | 1933 |
| How did Hitler and the Nazis come to power in Germany? | legally through the democratic process |
| How did Hitler subvert the Germany democracy? | By a weakness in the constitution which allowed for emergency powers to be given to the Chancellor in a crisis, ie burning of Reichstag, Enabling Act |
| Hitler purged who from the Nazi Party after he came to power? | Roehm and the SA |
| Who was head of the SS? | Himmler |
| What was the Nazi program called to eliminate the European Jewish population? | Final Solution |
| Who was the German minister of propaganda? | Goebbels |
| What 1936 event was used by the Nazis to showcase German superiority? | Berlin Olympics |
| What 1937 Nazi event destroyed opposition to their regime? | degenerate art |
| What was Hitler's first violation of the Versailles Treaty? | 1936 military reoccupation of the Rhineland |
| Britain and France appeased Hitler with what agreement in 1938? | Munich |
| What did Hitler get in the Munich Agreement? | the Sudetenland |
| What event started WWII in Europe? | German invasion of Poland, '39 |
| Hitler signed a secret nonaggression pact in 1939 with his enemy who was? | USSR and Stalin |
| What was Lebensraum? | Hitler's plan to take land from the USSR for German "living space/room" |
| What was the 1938 Anschluss? | Hitler's invasion of Austria-union of Germany and Austria |
| What caused the US entry into WWII? | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
| What was the name given to the Allies opening a western offensive against Hitler in 1944? | D-Day |
| What Axis power was defeated earliest? | Mussolini and Italy |
| What Allied conference planned the invasion of Sicily? | Casablanca |
| What WWII conference planned the D-Day invasion? | Teheran |
| What conference agreed to a United Nations and the division of Germany into 4 zones? | Yalta |
| What conference demanded Japanese surrender and Soviet organizing a North Korean govt? | Potsdam |
| Who was the conservative President of Germany who thought they could control Hitler as chancellor? | Hindenburg |
| What Nazi laws robbed Jews of their citizenship and rights? | Nuremberg laws |
| What was Kristallnacht? | means crystal night-Nazi smashed windows of Jewish shops |
| What was the Nazi race ideology named? | the Aryan concept |
| What was Hitler's military technique to overrun Beligum, Netherlands, France in 1940? | the blitzkrieg-"lightening warfare" |
| What 1942 eastern battle was the turning point for Germany causing them to retreat? | Stalingrad |
| What was Hitler's last offensive in Dec 1944? | Battle of the Bulge |
| USSR was allowed to establish a communist regime in what Asia country after helping to defeat Japan? | Korea |
