European History Part II

During WWII: Germany, Italy, and Japan were known as the __________ _________.

Which of these was the most noticeable symbol of the "Iron Curtain" in Europe?

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to the end of communism in Europe. Germany, once separated, became reunited soon after when the _______________ was torn down.

The Warsaw Pact was for the Soviet Union and the Eastern bloc and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was for the United States and their allies of the Western bloc.

On November 11, 1918, there was an armistice (temporary stopping of fighting) called to end WWI. The armistice led to the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The Treaty of Versailles, which officially ended the war, required Germany to accept full responsibility for the war. Germany also had to give up territory to surrounding countries. Germany surrendered its overseas colonies as well and made their armed forces much smaller. Germany also had to pay huge reparations ($33 billion) to the countries damaged during the war.

What did the Treaty of Versailles officially do?

The Cold War

"It is my duty, however, to place before you certain facts about the present position in Europe. From east in the Baltic Seas to the Ural Mountains in Russia, a(n) ____ ____ has descended across the continent of Europe. Behind that line lies all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere."
- Winston Churchill, March 5, 1946

What words correctly go in the blanks in Churchill's statement?

Anti-semitism can be defined as the hatred or discrimination of someone because he or she is

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked the end of decades of _______________ rule in the nation.

The Final Solution refers to...

What was the name of the fascist political party founded in Germany by dictator Adolf Hitler?

Which of these is considered the "spark" that began World War I?

In 1917 when Vladimir Lenin and his supporters known as the Bolsheviks overthrew Czar Nicholas II of Russia to help the peasants was known as the ______________________.

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Once the Cold War began, Europe had been divided by presence of communism. The Western blocc (democratic) was controlled by the Soviet Union and the Eastern blocc (communist) was controlled by United States and its western European allies.

"Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away on the trains. The Nazis at the Concentration Camps are treating them very roughly and transporting them to Auschwitz, the most known camp in the area to which they're sending all the Jews to be killed....If it's that bad in Poland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered by the thousands. The English radio says they're being out in gas chambers."

- Diary of a Young Girl (1947), entry dated April 11, 1944

What period in history is this reading passage most likely referring to?