20th Century Europe - Page 3

Questions
  • How did non-Jewish people try to save Jews from the horrors of Nazism?
  • What English queen had the longest reign in English History?
  • What Nazi ideology led to the mass murder of Jews known as the Holocaust?
  • Why do you think that many Europeans favored communism directly following World War ll?
  • How does Khrushchev justify placing Soviet missiles in Cuba?
  • What are the scientists; Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford, Mendelevium, Bohr and Schrodinger famous for? How did each of them contribute to science? What advances have we made because of them?
  • What contributions did Schrödinger make to atom theory?
  • Why did the inhabitants of Communist countries in Eastern Europe feel it was safe to rebel in 1989?
  • What nation that had signed a nonaggression pact with Germany eventually joined the Allies?
  • When did the tradition of bar mitzvah begin?
  • What purpose did the gulags serve in Russia?
  • Who did the Treaty of Versailles require to pay for the total cost of the war?
  • What was the "Miracle at Dunkirk", and Hitler's suprising order that helped make it possible?
  • What was the name of the non-aggression pact signed by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany?
  • In art, what does the term "value" refer to?
  • What happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine?
  • What was Operation Overlord?
  • Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during World War II?
  • Which of the following groups was associated with fascism: Red shirts, green shirts, brown shirts, or black shirts?
  • Why did Hitler believe that Jews and other "subhumans" had to be exterminated?