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b. Why was Germany unable to conquer Britain?
After Dunkirk, Britain and its Empire now stood alone against Germany . On 18 June 1940, Churchill correctly forecast the next stage of the war – ‘The battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle...
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c. Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union in 1941?
Why did Hitler want to invade the Soviet Union? “We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.”Hitler, talking about Russia in 1941. One of Hitler's aims was...
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2. Stalin rise and rule 1924 - 1941
Have a go at these 20 questions on Stalin's rise to power and policies in the Soviet Union 1924 to 1941...
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b. The New Deal
Have a go at these multiple-choice questions on the New Deal...
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5. The United States 1919 to 1941: Quizzes
See below for multiple choice quizzes on this topic. Have a go at answering the 10 multiple choice questions on the causes of the Depression in the US. ...
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a. Causes of the Depression
Have a go at answering the 10 multiple choice questions on the causes of the Depression in the US....
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c. Did the failure to solve unemployment mean the New Deal was a failure?
It was not until the start of the Second World War that the recession in the US ended. However, there is no doubt that the New Deal fundamentally changed the way Americans viewed the role of government...
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4. How successful was the New Deal?
Roosevelt introduced a series of proposals which tackled the problems of the Depression in a radically different way to any previous actions of a US government. For the first time, the federal government...
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3. What were causes and consequences of the Wall Street Crash?
As you have seen in the previous sections, America in the 1920s was a confident country with a booming economy. The new President who was elected in 1928 announced that 'We in America are nearer to the...
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b. Why did the New Deal encounter opposition?
Despite a landslide victory in 1936, Roosevelt had political enemies. The main attacks came from: Some thought that the New Deal went too far and others that it did not go far enough. Huey Long Opposition...