Worksheet 141-160 Modern US History
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INSTRUCTIONS: Use your Revised Final Edition Study Guide 1-300 to write the answers to the questions
of this worksheet to earn 70%. Then, circle the numbers of the questions you want to answer for your
oral test. Each question you answer, orally, is worth 10%.
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141. What methods did Hitler use to try to exterminate Europe’s Jewish population?
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142. List groups of people who were persecuted by the Nazis.
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143. Define Holocaust.
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144. What are some factors that may help explain the Holocaust?
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146. What year did Russia become the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
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147. What is another name for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)?
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148. What country did Benito Mussolini lead during WWII?
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149. What country did Vladimir Lenin lead during WWII?
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150. What country did Adolf Hitler lead during WWII?
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151. Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt win an unprecedented third term in office?
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152. How did the Lend-Lease Act help the Allied war efforts in WWII?
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153. What finally caused the United States to become involved in WWII?
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154. Why was Austria easier for Hitler to annex than Czechoslovakia?
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157. What were the 4 ways the Nazis persecuted the Jews?
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158. In what 3 ways did President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) help Britain while maintaining an
American policy of neutrality?
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159. Define FDR’s Destroyer-for-bases Agreement.
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2. People involved in the agreement, included the following:
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160. Define the Hemispheric Defense Zone Strategy.
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