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Who was Heda Kovály? Provide 3 significant facts from her biography. - answer-Born Heda
Bloch to Jewish family in Prague, 1919
Marries Rudolph Margolius in 1939
-1941: Deported to Lodz ghetto in Poland along with 5,000 Prague Jews
- Parents perish ...
EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM REE 301 Exam Questions With Correct Answers Who was Heda Kovály? Provide 3 significant facts from her biography. - answer✔✔-Born Heda Bloch to Jewish family in Prague, 1919 Marries Rudolph Margolius in 1939 -1941: Deported to Lodz ghetto in Pol and along with 5,000 Prague Jews - Parents perish in the gas chambers of Auschwitz (1944) How does Kovály explain the attraction of Communism for people of her generation? - answer✔✔-It was the complete opposite of facism -Was supposed to provide jobs and quality of life Level the playing field The Soviets came in and forced communism on the countries of Eastern Europe." How would you respond to such a claim? - answer✔✔-Many people accepted communism and wanted it -SU did not accept it but many accepted it as a new norm -So it wasn't always forced because many wanted it due to it being a stabilizing f What was the "Doctors' Plot"? What is its relevance for the new socialist regimes of Eastern Europe? - answer✔✔-Which was targeting Jewish doctors that had con spired to kill top soviet leaders -It symbolized state -sponsored antisemitism and went into western Europe which would mimic the show trail under stylist what factors contributed to the rise of anti -Semitism in the Soviet Union after World War II? -State -sponsored antisemitism had a doctor plot -Creation of Israel Who was Rudolf Slánský? Give the year of the trial in which he was chief defendant. - answer✔✔-Leading czech communist politician -One of several leaders put on trial in 1952 EXAM STUDY MATERIALS July 30, 2024 11:26 AM -Find date List the 8 countries comprising the socialist bloc in Central and Eastern Europe. - answer✔✔German democratic republic, Czechoslovakia, hungry, Romania, Bulgaria, USSR, Yugoslavia, Albania What are the main policies of the post -Stalinist New Order? - answer✔✔-End of collectivization -Reform of agriculture wanted to modernize it -State -run economy -Orthodox ideology Collective leadership; "cult of personality" denounced Possibility of "peaceful coexistence" with the bourgeois West Allowance for different national roads to socialism Decentralization of political, economic decision -making Focus on improving living standards, increased investment in agriculture, housing, consumer goods, at the expense of heavy industry No forced collec tivization -End of terror; rehabilitation of purge victims; reducing the powers of the secret police (Limited) democratization of social life, easing ideological controls over culture, media, public debate Who was Nikita Khrushchev? - answer✔✔Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin Nikita Khrushchev emerges as the winner in the contest with Georgii Malenkov and Lavrentii Beria Successor to Stalin reveres much of the policies from Stalin Wanted to do a bit different What was the "secret speech"? Give the dat e, briefly explain the significance - answer✔✔1956, 25 February: Twentieth Congress of CPSU, Khrushchev's "secret speech" denouncing the crimes of Stalinism and the "cult of personality" Who was Imre Nagy? - answer✔✔A hungarian leader who led the 1956 revo lt against Soviet Control Reformists led by Imre Nagy (1896 -1958) opposed by the old guard of Matyas Rakosi Hungarian communist politician leader of Hungarian revolution
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