Interwar Years Quiz

The signing of the ________ in 1919 officially ended WWI.

• Treaty of Verdun

• Pax Romana

• Treaty of Versailles

• D-Day Accords

What are debts paid back by a government to victors after wartime called?

• Reparations

• Treaties

• Armistice

• War bonds

Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks?

• Joseph Stalin

• Leon Trotsky

• Adolf Hitler

• Vladimir Lenin

What political philosophy, penned by Marx and Engels, had gained significant influence in Europe by 1917?

• Liberalism

• Manicheism

• Socialism

• Facism

__________ is the idea that humanity could and should be improved through direct intervention of reproduction.

• Facism

• Eugenics

• Coup d'etat

• Manifest Destiny

The day the stock market crashed in 1929 is often referred to as __________ Tuesday.

• Black

• Dust Bowl

• Weimar

• Purge

A ________________ or "killing stroke" is the overthrow of a governing body, often, but not always, through the use of violence.

• Francisco Franco

• Coup d'etat

• Purge

• Weimar

__________ was the military dictator of Spain who won the Spanish Civil War (and also successfully dumped a bunch of turkey parachutes over a monastery).

• Joseph Stalin

• Benito Mussolini

• Francisco Franco

• Hideki Tōjō

Germany instituted a democratic government in 1918 known as the ________ for the town that its charter was drafted in.

• Weimar Republic

• Treaty of Versailles

• October Revolution

• Taishō Era

In 1938, Stalin instituted a ________ in order to eliminate any potential enemies.

• New Deal

• Great Purge

• T4 Programme

• Eugenics