The Interwar Period

Which was a contributing, long-term cause of financial collapse known as the Great Depression?

• multiple bank closures

• overproduction

• lack of consumer spending

• all choices are correct

On October 29, 1929 what major event triggered a global Great Depression?

• invasion of the U.S. by Mexico

• end of German reparations

• U.S. stock market crash

• Russian Civil War

___________________ was a militant political movement that emphasized obedience to the state and its leader as well as bitterly opposed communism.

• fascism

• socialism

• anarchism

• absolutism

The harsh terms of this peace treaty and a severe economic depression in Germany helped lead to the fascism of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in the 1930's.

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Westphalia

• Treaty of Kanagawa

What leader of Germany ignored the Treaty of Versailles by remilitarizing the Rhineland and annexing Czechoslovakia?

• Hitler

• Franco

• Mussolini

• Tojo

In an attempt to build on the rising Italian nationalism, as well as avenge an earlier defeat in the 1890's, Mussolini invaded this African nation in 1935.

• Rwanda

• Ethiopia

• Nigeria

• Zimbabwe

What was the term used to describe the policy of the Allied Powers, as well as the League of Nations, that allowed German aggression leading up to WWII?

• totalitarianism

• salutary neglect

• isolationism

• appeasement

Francisco Franco, supported militarily by Hitler and Mussolini, became dictator of Spain directly following which conflict?

• Bolshevik Revolution

• Spanish Civil War

• WWII

• Franco-Prussian War

Which Prime Minister of Great Britain infamously declared " I believe it is peace in our time" after meeting with Hitler in Munich?  

• Neville Chamberlain

• Winston Churchill

• Vladimir Putin

• Benito Mussolini

According to the graph, German aggression continued in March of 1938 as illustrated by which event?   

• The Holocaust

• The Invasion of Normandy

• The invasion of Poland

• The annexing of Austria