WH Unit 11 Test #2: The World Between the Wars (11.5-11.8)

Affordable cars, radio, motion pictures, better telephones: all of these are examples of _____ that brought the world closer together.

• inflation

• mass culture

• propaganda

• entitlements

The 1920s in America are known as the Roaring Twenties. They are also known as _____ due to what was popular almost worldwide at the time.

• The Jazz Age

• The Blues Age

• The Age of Innocence

• The Age of the Dictatorship

What made it possible for women to have more time on their hands to get out and enjoy themselves during the Roaring Twenties?

• Jobs

• The right to vote.

• Less women were getting married.

• Labor saving devices in the home.

The 18th Amendment to the Constitution enacted Prohibition. What was prohibited.

• Alcohol

• Narcotics

• Tobacco

• Cocaine

What was indirectly caused by Prohibition?

• American sobriety.

• The Great Depression

• The growth of organized crime.

• The end of WWI

Experimented with radioactivity and found that atoms of radium and uranium released charged particles; won two Nobel Prizes.

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Sigmund Freud

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

Proposed new theories of relativity that changed the established beliefs regarding Newton's theories.

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Sigmund Freud

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

Worked with others to use atomic fission to create the atomic bomb.

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Sigmund Freud

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

Pioneered the process of psychoanalysis.

• Marie Curie

• Albert Einstein

• Sigmund Freud

• J. Robert Oppenheimer

This was discovered by accident in the 1920s and perfected in the 1940s as the first successful antibiotic.

• penicillin

• aspirin

• ibuprofen

• pepto bismol