How did the Versailles treaty directly and indirectly destabilize the Weimar government and influence Hitler's rise to power?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. German opposition to the financial settlement
2. French occupation of the Ruhr and its humiliation of the German government
3. The Weimar constitution's allowance of an authoritarian presidency
4. Hitler's challenge of the peace settlement as a burden and humiliation
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According to the Reconstruction Act of 1867, which of the following conditions was the only one that did not have to be met before former Confederate states could be readmitted to the Union?
A) Southern states had to draft new constitutions with the approval by Congress that granted black suffrage. B) Southern states had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. C) The Fourteenth Amendment had to be incorporated into the federal Constitution. D) Southern black voters and whites who were not disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment had to be allowed to elect delegates to state constitutional conventions. E) Southern states had to devise plans to finance veterans' benefits for former Confederate soldiers.
At the end of the eighteenth century, the largest economy in the world belonged to
a. Britain. b. China. c. India. d. Spain.
All of the following are correct regarding the development of fief-holding except it
a. was a response by local leaders who gathered military retainers to protect themselves, as the remnants of the imperial government could not adequately defend the state. b. led to the creation of a large number of knights who literally owed their livings to the lord who granted them a fief. c. led to a five-hundred-year period when warfare was dominated by heavily armed cavalry. d. reflected the high value of land during the centuries during which it was established. e. was a result of the Church's attempt to give serfs and peasants more social mobility.
During the Civil War, a Copperhead was someone who
a. lived in the North, but supported the South's effort to establish an independent nation b. was a Democrat, yet voted for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and 1864 c. favored ending slavery even if such action destroyed the Union d. helped England smuggle contraband into the South e. supported Lincoln's suppression of civil rights