Why did overproduction lead to unemployment?
Firms did not need as many workers and so sacked
people.
The Law for the Reduction of Unemployment gave
newly married couples how much if the wife gave up
work?
Name one way Hitler reduced unemployment.
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created work in arms factory
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Expanded the army [800,000 in 1938]
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Put young men into German labour Front
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Conscription
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Built Autobahns.
How did banks react to the Depression and how this
effect people?
Demanded loans be paid at once—which forced
people to sell their homes and business.
1000 reichsmarks
How many firms went bankrupt during the
Depression?
In October 1938—how were Jews to be marked out?
100,000
A big Red J was stamped on their identity cards
How many loud speakers did the Nazis have across
Germany?
Why did Tariffs lead to unemployment?
American firms found it hard to sell abroad and so
sacked workers.
6000
What were the shanty towns made of scrap materials
where the homeless lived called?
How many people were homeless during the
Depression?
250,000
A Hooverville
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Who was prosecuted for burning down the Reichstag?
Van der Lubbe [a Dutch Communist]
How much did shares go up in price in the 1920s?
How did Hitler use the burning of the Reichstag to his
advantage?
Used Article 48 to ban the Communists / make
campaigning in the election difficult for his opponents,
What was the system called that allowed people to
borrow 80% of the price of a share.
300%
Buying on the margin
A Model T Ford cost $950 before Mass Production.
How much did it cost after?
What was the system that allowed people to get a
good now and pay for it later?
$290
Hire Purchase
What is a tariff?
Why did the SA leadership feel let down by Hitler?
Either
A tax on foreign goods.
How many Americans died in World War One?
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He hadn’t let them take over the army.
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They felt that Hitler had gone back on his
promises to the working class and was too
influenced by Big Business.
Why did the Americans not want to join the League of
Nations?
116,000
They did not want to be dragged into another war.
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How many Germans were out of work in 1932?
6 million—25% of the work force.
How many of Bugs Moran gang were killed by Al
Capone on St Valentine’s day 1929?
6
What did the Nazis offer to the Middle Class?
Protection from Communism [which threatened to
take over business etc]
How many armed men did Al Capone employ ?
1000
How did the Nazis do in the 1928 Federal Election?
How many unsolved murders were there in Chicago?
Accept any of:
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Got 12 seats
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Got 2.6% of the vote
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Came 9th.
How much did Al Capone make a year?
$60-100 million
227
What illegal booze cam from Canada and West Indies?
By Bootleggers?
West Indies—rum
Canada—whisky
What was home brew spirits called?
What was the name of the Vietcong offensive of 31st
January 1968?
Moonshine
The Tet Offensive
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Richard Nixon won the 1968 Presidential election by
promising what?
Getting out of Vietnam
What control on immigration occurred in 1917?
An English language test.
The 1921 Emergency Quotas Act set what limit on
immigration?
What percentage of the population lived in poverty?
71%
Which officer was responsible for the My Lai
Massacre?
Lieutenant Calley
In what university did the Civil Guard kill four
people—who turned out not to be demonstrators—
the governor claimed they were Communists?
Kent State, Ohio
3% of the 1890 number from that group in 1890.
The Jim Crow laws made segregation legal. What was
segregation?
That black people had to live in inferior houses and
banned from ‘white only’ restaurants.
What was the name of the US operations which
involved flying in to a village to hunt out Vietcong
fighters?
Search and Destroy
Which racist group lynched black men, burnt black
churches and lit burning crosses?
Ku Klux Klan
Which organisation campaigned for Prohibition?
Anti-Saloon League
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What was one of the unplanned consequences of
napalm for 500,000 children?
Which was the name of the idea that if one country
fell to Communist, others would follow?
Birth defects
Domino Theory
Which US destroyer was attacked in the Gulf of
Tonkin, giving the US an excuse to intervene in South
Vietnam?
In 1965 the Vietcong killed 9 Americans. In response
the US blanket bombed the North Vietnamese
countryside. What was this Operation called?
USS Maddox
Operation Rolling Thunder
Name two things on the Vietcong Code of Conduct.
How many people died each year from drinking bad
moonshine?
Do not flirt with women
Be polite
Be fair
Return anything borrowed
Do damage crops
For what was Al Capone arrested?
5000
Give a reason why the Ho Chi Minh Trail was difficult
to destroy.
It was up to 50 miles wide
False trails were shown to mislead the Americans
It went through bits of Laos and Cambodia
Tax Evasion.
Which area in South Vietnam did the Vietcong control,
town or countryside?
The US tried to win support from the South
Vietnamese so they wouldn’t hide the Vietcong by
building schools, digging drainage ditches and making
clinics. What was this policy called?
Hearts & Minds
Countryside
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