HIST 102 Final, Spring 1997

HISTORY 102 Section Two Final Examination ( 2 Hours) 1997 Instructions: Answer any two of thc following questions ‘A What policy did Great Britain and France adopt in reaction to Hitler during the 1930’s, and did it bring peace in our time as Chamberlain said it would do in 1938 ? 2. What was the primary objective of Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan, how was it to be financed, and what were its social costs and effects in Russia ? 3. What were the measures and policies presidents Hoover and Roosevelt proposed to put an end to the Great Depression (1929) ? 4. The main aim of the Versailles Peace Treaty(1919) was to checkmate the military might of Germany and to confine Russia’s revolutionary threat. Discuss in detail. 5. “All power to the Soviets!” Against whom was this cry by Lenin (1917) directed, how and when did the Bolsheviks assume total control of Russia ? 6. Explain the circumstances that led to the triumph of Hitler and Nazism in Germany. 7. What is, in your opinion, the most important cause that led the “chief nations of Europe to become locked in combat” in August 1914 ? Discuss in detail.