Interwar & WWII Review

Which of the following helped lead to the Great Depression?

• multiple bank closures

• decline in consumer spending

• overproduction

• all answers are correct

What "sparked" the Great Depression?

• Russian Civil War

• end of German reparations

• collapse of U.S. stock market

• invasion of the U.S. by Mexico

What was the New Deal?

• a series of U.S. economic reforms

• a plan for lasting world peace

• a $200 million loan to Germany

• the collectivization of agriculture

Benito Mussolini consolidated his power by...

• banning use of private radios

• getting rid of the Pope

• outlawing all other parties

• publishing his ideas

Peace treaty that punished Germany and led to the rise of the Nazi Party:

• Treaty of Kanagawa

• Treaty of Westphalia

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Atlanta

Japan withdrew from the League of Nations due to

• their annexation of the Sudetenland

• their invasion of Manchuria

• a rebellion of the samurai

• pressure from the Soviet Union

The policy of the Allied Powers, as well as the League of Nations, that gave into aggressive nations in order to keep the peace:

• appeasement

• containment

• brinkmanship

• isolationism

The Nazi police force loyal only to Hitler that contributed to the Holocaust:

• BEIC

• KGB

• SS

• NSA

What was the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" espoused by the Nazi Party?

• the creation of an independent Jewish state

• the deportation of all Jewish people from Germany

• the systematic execution of Europe's Jewish population

• the resettlement of Jewish people in colonial territory

The Nuremberg and Tokyo Trials...

• were held during the Paris Peace Conference

• tried many war criminals from the Axis Powers

• failed to find anyone guilty of war crimes

• assigned full war guilt to Germany and Japan