How did technology shape the nature and course of World War II?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. Superiority in military technology gave Germany an advantage in the early years of the war.
b. Germany had more and better machine guns, mortars, howitzers, tanks, and armored cars.
c. Cipher warfare refers to the use of cryptography to communicate during the war and the opposing side’s efforts to decode those communications.
d. The Enigma gave the Germans an advantage until the cryptographers at Bletchley Park cracked the code.
e. Both sides invested in developing weapons for the war.
f. The Germans developed the V-2 Wunderwaffen as a terror weapon to be used against civilian populations.
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a. plebeians. c. patricians. b. tribunes. d. questors.
How did competing images of the war create turmoil at home?
What will be an ideal response?
In contrast to the Republican (in theory) system of government in Florence, Milan was ruled by ______________.
A. a Prince B. a Duke C. a Doge D. a Majordomo E. a Condotierri
What circumstance led to an American posture in which true neutrality was dead?
A. the British blockade, which infuriated Wilson to the point of embargoing U.S. trade B. the British blockade, which cut off U.S. trade with Germany while supplies still flowed to the Allies C. German war propaganda, which so alienated German Americans that they shifted their support to the British D. German war propaganda, which recruited thousands of influential German Americans to lobby on behalf of the German cause